# Your database looks empty! Please create some collections... MongoDB

**URL:** <https://community.forestadmin.com/t/your-database-looks-empty-please-create-some-collections-mongodb/2568>\
**Category:** Help me!\
**Tags:** howtos, setup\
**Created:** [May 27, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/your-database-looks-empty-please-create-some-collections-mongodb/2568 "2021-05-27T15:41:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![DennisJMurphy](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/dennisjmurphy/32/2321_2.png) [@DennisJMurphy](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/DennisJMurphy)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/your-database-looks-empty-please-create-some-collections-mongodb/2568/1 "2021-05-27T15:41:45Z")

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My team is considering switching to Forest Admin, and I’m trying to get it to work in my local environment. The prepared lumber command is failing with the message: “Your database looks empty! Please create some collections”

I’ve added collections to the 4 dbs I see in the console, just a few small items, but I’m getting the same error

## Expected behavior

I expected the lumber command to give me some kind of admin dashboard

## Actual behavior

I’m getting an empty database error, even after adding some items to the databases.

## Failure Logs

Please include any relevant log snippets, if necessary.  
✓ Connecting to your database

✖ Analyzing the database

> Your database looks empty! Please create some collections before running the command.

## Context

Please provide any relevant information about your setup.

- Package Version: Node v 12.16.3
- Express Version: 4.17.1
- Sequelize Version:
- Database Dialect: MongoDB
- Database Version: 4.0.1
- Project Name:

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**Author:** ![Guillaume\_Cisco](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/guillaume_cisco/32/918_2.png) [@Guillaume\_Cisco](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Guillaume_Cisco)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/your-database-looks-empty-please-create-some-collections-mongodb/2568/2 "2021-05-27T15:56:25Z")

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Hello @DennisJMurphy, and welcome to the Forest Admin community 🎉

It looks like the connection to the database you specified can’t find any collections.  
Could you recheck the parameters, please?

You can also test with this demo mongo database : [GitHub - marcperrinp/standalone-mongo](https://github.com/marcperrinp/standalone-mongo) for testing everything is working correctly.

Let me know if it helps 🙂

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**Author:** ![DennisJMurphy](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/dennisjmurphy/32/2321_2.png) [@DennisJMurphy](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/DennisJMurphy)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/your-database-looks-empty-please-create-some-collections-mongodb/2568/3 "2021-05-27T15:57:27Z")

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solved: I had pointed Forest at the the mongoDB server and not to a specific DB…