This is a badly needed feature. The only solution to force an election is to contact Mongo support and wait upwards of 2 hours so that they can force a restart of the process on the unhealthy node. This has happened several times since we've started using this service and it's getting to the point now that we may need to start looking at alternatives because we might lose customers due to a lack of confidence in the system being available.
This is a badly needed feature. The only solution to force an election is to contact Mongo support and wait upwards of 2 hours so that they can force a restart of the process on the unhealthy node. This has happened several times since we've started using this service and it's getting to the point now that we may need to start looking at alternatives because we might lose customers due to a lack of confidence in the system being available.