What is a TransientTransactionError in Mongoose (or MongoDB)?

Question

I have server.js and db.js The db.js file interacts with my database using Mongoose and I use server.js to call functions

Answer 1

I encountered this error when running the populatedb.js script in the MDN tutorial for Express/NodeJS.

The script was looking for a db connection starting with mongodb://, however my connection string from mongo started with mongodb+srv://.

I edited the script to check for this syntax instead, which resolved the error.

I hope this helps someone.

Answer 2

You can read about the error online but the solution for this problem is: go to you MongoDB atlas and add your IP address.

Go to: main page > security section > network access > add IP

This problem is basically when the architecture do not know your own IP address.

Also, copy-paste directly to google to get straight forward solution.

Answer 3

If you are using MongoDB Atlas. You need to Whitelist your IP address on the Atlas Console in the security settings.

Answer 4

Make sure the server didn't ran out of storage space.

In my case none of the suggested answers helped. I was pulling out my hair until I've noticed that the server simply ran out of storage space. Clearing up a few megabytes of storage solved the error immediately.

The TransientTransactionError actually makes sense in this scenario due to its nature of being a temporary error that could be resolved upon an explicit retry - though it did took me a while to figure out it had to do with a storage issue.