MongoDB connection problems on Azure

Question

We have an ASP.NET MVC application deployed to an Azure Website that connects to MongoDB and does both read and write operations. The application does this iteratively. A few th

Answer 1

Are you using mongoDB in a VM? It seems to be a network problem. This kind of transient faults should occur, so the best you can do is implement a retry pattern or use a lib such as Polly to do that:

Policy
    .Handle()
    .Retry(3, (exception, retryCount) =>
    {
        // do something 
    });

https://github.com/michael-wolfenden/Polly