You have to let your session know that reading this information from a non-primary server is OK (literally)… -bash-4.1$ mongo rs1:SECONDARY> show dbs 2018-02-01T10:37:58.457-0500 E QUERY [thread1] Error: listDatabases failed:{ “operationTime” : Timestamp(1517499476, 1), “ok” : 0, “errmsg” : “not…