MongoDB: A timeout occured after 30000ms selecting

I'm completely stumped. I am using the latest c# drivers (2.3.0.157) and the latest MongoDB (3.2). The DB is running as a standalone setup with no replication or sharding. I've tried running locally on Windows as well as remotely on Amazon LINUX.

I continue to get a timeout error but mysteriously sometimes it just works (maybe once every 20 - 30 attempts).

I am creating the connection as such:

private static readonly string ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MongoDB"].ToString();
private static readonly string DataBase = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MongoDBDatabase"].ToString();

private static IMongoDatabase _database;


public static IMongoDatabase GetDatabase(string database)
{
    if (_database == null)
    {
        var client = new MongoClient(ConnectionString);
        _database = client.GetDatabase(database);

    }

    return _database;
}

And calling it like this:

public static List<Earnings> GetEarnings()
{
    var db = GetDatabase(DataBase);
    if (db == null) return new List<Earnings>();
    var logs = db.GetCollection<Earnings>("EarningsData");
    var all = logs.Find(new BsonDocument()).ToEnumerable().OrderBy(x => x.Symbol).ToList();
    return all;
}

And it'll time out on the logs.Find part of the method. Here's the full message:

Additional information:

A timeout occured after 30000ms selecting a server using CompositeServerSelector{ Selectors = ReadPreferenceServerSelector{ ReadPreference = { Mode = Primary, TagSets = [] } }, LatencyLimitingServerSelector{ AllowedLatencyRange = 00:00:00.0150000 } }. Client view of cluster state is { ClusterId : "1", ConnectionMode : "Direct", Type : "Unknown", State : "Disconnected", Servers : [{ ServerId: "{ ClusterId : 1, EndPoint : "XX.XX.XX.XX:27017" }", EndPoint: "XX.XX.XX.XX:27017", State: "Disconnected", Type: "Unknown" }] }.

I've tried using the fully qualified host name, adding connect=direct and connect=replicaSet to the connection string, using MongoClientSettings instead of the connection string and everything else I could possibly find on forums and StackOverflow. I'm at a loss and not even sure where to look next. Any advice?

I should also add, I can connect fine from the command line and RoboMongo...

We finally figured out how to work around this issue but I still don't understand what's happening. In our case, we have a server that spawns ~10 signalr hubs that get their data from MongoDB. It seems that when the app was starting up it was making several rapid calls to MongoDB to get the initial set of data and while it would occasionally worked, most times it didn't. We ended up solving this by adding a one second delay between loading each SignalR hub so the initial query was delayed a bit and we didn't have contention.

The weird thing about this is none of these collections have a large amount of data and the initial load is usually < 100 documents per collection (max). Once things are initialized it doesn't seem to matter how often we hit MongoDB. It just seems to be on the initial load.