TL;DR
- Document DB is now GA and production-ready
- Alpha/Beta users: no migration required and no data loss
- New CLI command: 30-min read-only connection for local inspection to production databases from your local machine
- Clearer guidance for regions, limits, and multi-region apps
Hello everyone!
After working closely with many of you during the Alpha and Beta phases and learning from your feedback and real-world usage, we are excited to announce that monday code Document DB is now Generally Available and ready to power your production workloads.
Thanks to the deep engagement from many of you during Alpha and Beta, Document DB has evolved into a robust, reliable, and developer-friendly database solution fully integrated with the monday code hosting platform.
This release reflects real developer feedback and real usage patterns, with better tooling, clearer behavior, and a smoother experience overall.
What is Document DB?
Document DB is a MongoDB-compatible persistent storage solution built specifically for monday code apps. Fully hosted on monday.com infrastructure, it allows you to store and manage your app’s data securely and reliably without managing your own database.
You can use any MongoDB-compatible client library to connect directly from your app.
What changed based on your feedback?
As part of the transition to GA, we made several improvements based on Alpha and Beta feedback:
- A new CLI command that generates a temporary 30-minute read-only connection string for inspecting and debugging data from your local machine
- Clearer documentation around database-per-region behavior and multi-region support
- Improved explanations of limits and what happens when limits are reached
- Documentation refinements and clarifications across the board
Production ready
Document DB is fully production-ready.
All data created during Alpha and Beta is preserved, and no migration is required. If you previously participated in Alpha or Beta, you have been automatically transitioned to GA with no action required.
Getting started
Once your app is deployed, a new environment variable called MNDY_MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING is available in your monday code production environment and accessible via the SDK. This connection string lets your app connect directly to the database using any MongoDB-compatible library.
After your first deployment, you can also generate a temporary read-only connection string using the Apps CLI version 4.10.2 or higher:
mapps database:connection-string
This is useful for viewing data, debugging, and general inspection from your local machine.
Regional behavior and data residency
Each monday code region has its own separate database to ensure data residency in the same region as the monday account.
If your app is single-region today, your database will be created in that region. If your app serves customers globally, we strongly recommend enabling multi-region support before storing production data. Once multi-region is enabled and your app is deployed to all regions, a separate database is created per region.
Data is not synced between regions, and we do not currently provide tools to migrate data between regions.
We would love your feedback
Although Document DB is now Generally Available, your feedback remains extremely valuable. We would love to hear about:
- Performance
- Ease of use
- Feature requests
- Documentation clarity
- Any issues or challenges you encounter
Read the full Document DB docs here, and please share your feedback in the Document DB community group or reply here.
Thank you to everyone who participated in Alpha and Beta and helped us get Document DB to this point. We are excited to see what you build with it.