I was having a weird problem with mongo whereby my application was hitting mongo and storing everything perfectly, but I couldn't access it from the command line. Turns out I'm just stupid, and didn't know how to access it properly.
Via the mongo console, I was trying to access my collection's data via:
db.users.find()
The reason? I was following the mongo tutorials which used a similar syntax. Turns out, I should've been running the following:
use dbname
db.users.find({})
db.users.find()
The last two lines return the same response, for the record. I just needed to be
explicitity write that I'm using the the dbname database, and then reference
the users collection to query against it. I think I failed to understand that
in the tutorial, the name of their db was actually
the string, db.
Anyway, that helped out.