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Soumaya ZAMMIT
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April 28, 2026
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MongoDB extractor

  • April 28, 2026
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Hi,

We're using the Cognite DB extractor (version 3.9.2) with a MongoDB database (Azure Cosmos DB via the MongoDB API) and are trying to set up incremental loading.

The documentation for mongodb (https://docs.cognite.com/cdf/integration/guides/extraction/configuration/db#databases.mongodb) doesn't mention the use of start_at and incremental_field but after testing them and looking at the debug logs, we can see the extractor sends the {start_at} placeholder literally without substituting the state value. 
My questions are:
    1. Is start_at substitution supported at all for MongoDB JSON queries, or is it SQL-only?
    2. If incremental loading is not supported for MongoDB, is there a recommended workaround?

Thanks.

Best answer by Mithila Jayalath

@Soumaya ZAMMIT The engineering team has deployed a fix for this issue. Can you please try DB extractor version 3.9.4 and let me know?

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Alex
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May 1, 2026

@Mithila Jayalath ​@Anita Hæhre any one from the extractor team could help here ?

Mithila Jayalath
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May 1, 2026

@navin.r will you be able to help out here?

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May 8, 2026

@Soumaya ZAMMIT sorry for the late response. The engineering team has identified a bug in the substitution logic for start_at within MongoDB JSON queries. They are working on fixing it. I’ll let you know once it’s fixed.

Thank you for reporting this issue.

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May 10, 2026

Thank you ​@Mithila Jayalath for the update. Please keep me posted once the fix is deployed.

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May 15, 2026

@Soumaya ZAMMIT The engineering team has deployed a fix for this issue. Can you please try DB extractor version 3.9.4 and let me know?

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May 18, 2026

@Mithila Jayalath it’s working now with the 3.9.4 version 
Thanks a lot!

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May 18, 2026

@Soumaya ZAMMIT Thanks for the update. FYI ​@Alex