Author: Kirsty Burgess

Kirsty Burgess is a technical writer with experience in the financial, telecommunications, and software industries. At 3T Software Labs, she collaborates closely with UX designers, developers, QA engineers, and product managers, to gather information and produce clear, user-focused content, including in-app messaging, knowledge base articles, release notes, and blog posts.

What’s New in Studio 3T 2025.5

Studio 3T 2025.5 provides a number of improvements to Studio 3T. You can now pop out the AI Helper and resize or reposition the window and easily view all your query code. This enhances the chat experience and provides a more seamless workflow with the ability to use the code in other parts of the […]

Posted on: 24/03/2025 (last updated: 28/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess 2 minutes

What’s New in Studio 3T 2025.4

Studio 3T 2025.4 provides a number of fixes to improve stability and usability. We’ve addressed issues in the Visual Query Builder and Index Manager to ensure smoother query building and index creation. Fixed in Studio 3T 2025.4 Visual Query Builder The active field no longer loses focus when you use date tags to build queries. […]

Posted on: 03/03/2025 (last updated: 27/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess < 1

What’s New in Studio 3T 2025.3

Studio 3T 2025.3 provides a number of improvements to Studio 3T. Don’t lose track of your AI Helper conversations again! With Session Restore enabled in Studio 3T, the history of your prompts and responses is automatically saved and ready for you the next time you open the application. This ensures a seamless experience, allowing you […]

Posted on: 17/02/2025 (last updated: 27/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess < 1

Best practices for optimizing MongoDB performance

Learn expert techniques from Roman Right to prototype and optimize MongoDB queries, debug efficiently, and enhance database performance.

Posted on: 06/02/2025 (last updated: 18/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess 4 minutes

What’s New in Studio 3T 2025.2

Studio 3T 2025.2 provides a number of improvements to Studio 3T. If you’re working with large collections, you’ll want to optimize performance and resource usage. To provide more control over when queries are run, we’ve introduced a new option for the Collection Tab to avoid unnecessary cluster scale-ups, ensuring a more cost-effective data management strategy. […]

Posted on: 03/02/2025 (last updated: 27/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess 2 minutes

How to use MongoDB aggregations with AI to aid decision making

Ask the right questions using plain language to extract strategic insights and master data-driven decision making with MongoDB.

Posted on: 21/01/2025 • Kirsty Burgess 3 minutes

What’s New in Studio 3T 2025.1

The first release of the year, Studio 3T 2025.1, provides a number of improvements to Studio 3T. We’ve also fixed the connection issues with SSH tunnels that some of you reported after we updated the MongoDB Java Driver in Studio 3T 2024.5. Improvements in Studio 3T 2025.1 Data Compare & Sync Expansion arrows on the […]

Posted on: 15/01/2025 (last updated: 27/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess < 1

Using Studio 3T with MongoDB Server versions earlier than 4.0

Studio 3T is continually packaged with the latest MongoDB Java Drivers. This article contains download links to Studio 3T 2024.4.1 packaged with Java Driver 4.7.2.

Posted on: 07/01/2025 • Kirsty Burgess < 1

AI Helper

AI Helper is Studio 3T’s AI-powered assistant that quickly gets you started with writing MongoDB queries, aggregations, or scripts.

Posted on: 18/12/2024 (last updated: 17/06/2025) • Kirsty Burgess 3 minutes