Northflank Database
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Northflank Mongo Database
Northflank offers a Mongo database.
Pros:
Simple to create
Economic reliable database
High quality Mongo database with a replica set
You can deploy up to $20/mo worth of free resources on Northflank’s managed cloud
Cons:
Heroku Nightscout might crash with database timeouts
If you already have a Northflank account, log in and continue (skip new account creation).
Else
Create an account with Northflank
a) Sign-up to Northflank in a new browser tab.
Fill all required fields and Sign up
.
You can also sign up with Google, GitHub, … if you wish.

Northflank will send you an email to complete the registration.

b) Open your email and confirm with Verify email
.

c) Click Choose theme
.

d) Select Skip for now
.

e) Click Create free project

f) Invent a project name (nightscout
for example) and select a region (Europe or US) then click Create project

Create your database
Costs
The Mongo database is free, you only pay for the storage
Minimum price is 0.3$/month, cost is then 0.3$/GiB/month
A good database is important for your Nightscout site reliability
a) Open a new browser page https://northflank.com/dbaas/mongodb-on-northflank and click Deploy MongoDB on Northflank for free

b) Select your account and your project name (see below if you don’t have one yet).

If you don’t have a project in Northflank, create a new one with Create project
and then select Create free project
else skip to c).


Invent a project name (nightscout
for example) and select a region (Europe or US) then click Create project

c) Select Deploy addons
.

d) Select MongoDB
and type a name for your addon (not important) in Addon name
.

e) Select a Mongo version if you want.
All Mongo versions are supported by Nightscout: you can select the one you prefer.
Since recent versions don’t add value, you can safely select an older version like 5.0.24.

Important: If you will use this database with a Nightscout that is not in Northflank, you must enable Publicly accessible
.
If you will deploy Nightscout in Northflank, you can leave it disabled.

f) Select Create addon

g) If you haven’t yet, you need to add a payment method into Northflank.
You will be charged monthly for your database (0.3$ up to 1 GiB, then 0.3$/GiB).

g) Enter your password and click Confirm
to see your MongoDB information.

h) Click the copy icon of the line MONGO_SRV
.

This is an important information
Now that you have copied the resulting MONGODB_URI
string, keep it in a safe place, you will need it later.
i) Wait until your database is fully created. It might take some time.
