VisuaLeaf has a dedicated Azure DocumentDB connection type. Paste your cluster's connection string and the form fills itself in, then browse collections, build queries and aggregation pipelines, map your schema and chart the results in one visual workspace.
Microsoft's documentation has a step-by-step guide: Use VisuaLeaf to connect to Azure DocumentDB.
Azure DocumentDB is a fully managed, MongoDB-compatible database built on the open-source DocumentDB engine. Getting connected and productive still means dealing with network rules, encoded credentials and a compatibility layer. VisuaLeaf handles the connection and gives you a visual workspace once you're in.
Public access needs your client IP in the cluster firewall, and private clusters are only reachable from a network that can see the private endpoint.
Usernames and passwords with @, # or / have to be percent-encoded inside the URI, and TLS and SCRAM-SHA-256 have to match what the cluster expects.
Microsoft describes Azure DocumentDB as 99.03% MongoDB-compatible. Drivers and tools connect over the wire protocol, but it does not run the MongoDB server.
The Azure portal manages the cluster. Exploring documents, building pipelines and charting results needs a proper client.
Pick the DocumentDB - Azure tile, paste the connection string, and VisuaLeaf fills in the Server, Authentication, SSL and Options tabs for you. Test it, save it, and start exploring.
The same steps Microsoft documents in Use VisuaLeaf to connect. You need an Azure DocumentDB cluster, network access to it, and a native database username and password.
In the Azure portal, open your cluster and copy its connection string.
In VisuaLeaf, choose New connection, search for documentdb and select DocumentDB - Azure.
Paste the string with your credentials and select Auto-Fill Form from Connection String.
Confirm SSL is on and authentication is Basic (SCRAM-SHA-256), then select Test Connection.
Save & Connect, then browse databases and collections and start building queries.
Once you're connected, move from browsing documents to queries, aggregations, schema, indexes and charts without switching tools.
Build queries with filters, operators, AND/OR groups, projection, sort and limits, and see the MongoDB query it writes for you.
Explore featureCreate aggregation pipelines stage by stage, preview how documents change after each step, and switch between visual mode and code.
Explore featureSee collections, fields, nested objects and arrays as diagrams, inferred from the documents your cluster actually stores.
Explore featureRun mongosh-style scripts against your cluster and get results as trees and tables instead of printed text.
Explore featureList every index on a collection with its options, and create or drop indexes without remembering the syntax.
Explore featureTurn query and aggregation results into charts and dashboards in place, without exporting your data to another tool.
Explore featureWhether you are migrating an app, debugging a query or reporting on your data, VisuaLeaf gives you a clearer way to work with Azure DocumentDB.
Build on Azure DocumentDB with the MongoDB drivers you already use, and debug queries against real documents.
Compare data and structure between a MongoDB source and your new Azure DocumentDB cluster as you move workloads over.
Run queries and aggregations and turn them into charts, without writing pipelines by hand or exporting data elsewhere.
Learn document databases with clear diagrams and visual builders, then see the query each one produces.
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