Command to establish the SSH Tunnel to MongoDB on remote server

$ ssh -L :27018:127.0.0.1:27017 -i /path/serverkey.pem remoteserverUSER@remoteserverIP -N -v -v

Command description

/path/serverkey.pem - certificate file to access the remoteserver

remoteserverUSER - user name to access the remote server

remoteserverIP - remote server host IP address (where mongod runs)

127.0.0.1:27017 - local IP address and port on the remote server

27018 - port number that connects local machine to remote

Once the connection is established to the remote server, you can connect to MongoDB via Compass or through the Mongo CLI.