We cannot upload custom DRDL to Atlas BI connector. This forces us to roll our own BI connector

We have the BI connector installed/configured via OPS manager on one of our deployments.
When we have to restart the node, the BI connector takes a long time to start as it has to rebuild the schema.
Hence we would like to file an enhancement request to be able to store the schema information and then retrieve it again after a restart.

Currently, whitelisting is only possible at the Project level. We would like to allow whitelisting of the BI connector instance separately from the project.

The Users/IPs that connect to mongo are completely different for BI connector vs the actual DB

Hope BI enable write permission because a lot of system especially Windows base using ODBC

In Atlas the is no way to see the BI connector logs, so, the request is to be able to see the Current schema creation/update status or even better, be able to see the log.

When a BI Connector fails, no alerts are sent to admins, only the notification on the page is available indicating that it will "restart in 5 minutes".

The current authentication methods lack in their ability to control password complexity requirements (SCRAM-SHA-*) or require exposing on-premise LDAP servers to the public internet. The addition of X509 is worthwhile given that MongoDB Atlas already supports X509 as a user authentication mechanism.

The Power Query Editor in Microsoft leverages a prepared statement for query/filtering.

Error message:
This command is not supported in the prepared statement protocol yet

This is a feature request to support prepared statements in the mongosqld BI Connector service.

As per KAFKA-208, SMTs can't be applied to the heartbeats-mongodb topic. Users should not have to configure each connector to ignore this topic. Please either ignore this topic by default or provide a command-line switch so it can be ignored.

The limitation of supporting multiple clusters in a single mongosqld configuration is now supported or not.

Can't fetch data on MongoDB ODBC via BI connector. Test connections are successful but couldn't fetch the data from database servers, only getting 'information_schema' and 'mysql' as by default databases

I would like to have a default CDC handler that can process data produced from MongoDB Source Connector without Debezium https://docs.mongodb.com/kafka-connector/master/kafka-sink-cdc#cdc-handler-configuration

Default connection timeouts using the BI Connector in mongo atlas are limited to 30 seconds. Which can be limiting when running longer queries. By exposing the maxTimeMs and related connection parameters in the Atlas web interface, users could increase the timeout for longer running queries.

As stated in the docs (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/aggregation/sample/#behavior), the $sample stage will perform a full COLLSCAN if some criteria won't be met. The problem is that no view (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/views/) will ever meet these, as the $sample won't be the first aggregation stage.

My proposal is to implement additional, $skip+$limit based sampling.

It'd be great if we could run "FLUSH SAMPLE collectionName". It's rarely the case that a lot of collections have changed at once and such a "light re-sample" might be a good alternative.

Currently BI Connector has username and password in clear. this presents problem in terms of security. BI connector has to have a way to encrypt the password and then we store the encrypted password which BI connector can decrypt and use it. it can be any standard encrypt decrypt algorithm but the secret key can be generated by the person using this.