Mongo C# driver 2.0 - Find count without fetching documents

Question

A general count query will be doing a

int count = collection.Find(filter).Count();

Now that loads all the records as per the filter, so le

Answer 1

You need to use the explicit CountAsync method and not Find:

long result = await collection.CountAsync(Builders<Hamster>.Filter.Eq(_ => _.Name, "bar"));