3T Explore – The browser IDE for MongoDB and other document databases
Query, explore, and work with MongoDB and other document database data with governed access in your browser.
Professional data access, built for the whole team
Studio 3T Desktop IDE remains the tool of choice for many developers and DBAs. 3T Explore extends that same professional experience — coupled with additional AI capabilities — to everyone else who needs it, with the governance that makes it safe to hand out. Deployed on-premises within your own infrastructure. Users reach it through a browser link, so there’s nothing to install on individual machines.
No installation
Open a browser and start working. There’s nothing to deploy, configure, or keep up to date on individual machines.
Control who can access what
Decide who can see which databases, collections, and environments. 3T Explore is built for teams that need to manage data access, not just enable it.
What you can do in 3T Explore
Professional document database querying and data exploration, with no local installation required. The same experience you’re used to in our desktop IDE, in a browser.
Explore
View, query, and edit data across your MongoDB collections. A full collection viewer built for day-to-day data work, without leaving the browser.
Visual Query Builder
Build complex queries without writing a single line of code.
IntelliShell
Run queries using raw shell commands, and flexible views of results.
Aggregation Editor
A stage-by-stage pipeline builder with a drag-and-drop interface. Add, edit, and reorder stages as you go.
AI Helper
Context-aware query assistance based on what you’re actually working with. Ask a question in plain language, get a precise answer.
Workspace Switcher
Hold multiple workspaces and switch between them in one session. Each workspace shows only the connections and data your administrator has configured for it.
Access control
Governed by 3T Access Manager, the companion product that decides which environments, databases, and collections each user can reach, before they ever open a browser.
Who 3T Explore is for
Studio 3T was built for practitioners who need to get things done with MongoDB and document databases. Here’s why serious data teams choose it.
Software developers
Reproduce a customer bug with real data, then recreate the exact scenario in a sandbox — without risking the integrity of live records.
Product managers and business decision-makers
Investigate what’s actually happening in the data, without filing a request and waiting on engineers
Customer success and operations
Get direct, governed access to live operational data to answer questions that haven’t made it into a dashboard yet.
Ready to see what Studio 3T looks like for your role?
3T Explore Advantage
Built for what standalone tools, desktop IDEs, and heavy platforms weren’t.
BI tools
Work well for known questions, but
hit a wall the moment work becomes
investigative. Built on predefined data
models; they retrieve data and usually can’t modify it.
3T Explore
Direct, governed access to live operational data, built for ad hoc investigation, not just predefined dashboards. This isn’t a replacement for BI tools, it’s what happens before something becomes a report.
Full developer IDEs
Powerful, but the wrong fit for anyone who isn’t an engineer, and with no built-in access governance.
3T Explore
The Visual Query Builder and AI Helper mean no specialized document database experience is required, while 3T Access Manager governs exactly who can reach what.
Filing a request and waiting
Slow, iterative, and dependent on someone else’s availability
3T Explore
Self-service from the start. Open a browser, sign in, and start working within the access boundaries already configured for you.
