Add “?connect=replicaSet” to the end of your connection string if connecting to MongoLab.
new MongoClient("mongodb://username:[email protected]:11111/db-name?connect=replicaSet")
This JIRA ticket has some details: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CSHARP-1160
Basically the default is to connect to a replica set member. But MongoLab’s Single-Node settings are actually a single node replica set and this causes us to not trust it. Appending ?connect=replicaSet to your connection string will force the driver to move into replica set mode and all will work.