diff --git a/src/MongoDB.ts b/src/MongoDB.ts
index b26805d..a810c5d 100644
--- a/src/MongoDB.ts
+++ b/src/MongoDB.ts
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ export abstract class MongoDB<T extends PrismaClient> {
             }
         }
 
-        const url = `mongodb://${credentials}@${this._dbInfo.host}:${this._dbInfo.port}/${this._dbName}?authSource=admin`;
+        const url = `mongodb://${credentials}@${this._dbInfo.host}:${this._dbInfo.port}/${this._dbName}?authSource=admin&directConnection=true`;
         console.log('Connecting to mongodb database: %s', url);
 
         this._prisma = this.createClient({
diff --git a/src/cmd-database-url.ts b/src/cmd-database-url.ts
index db0ee2e..15552eb 100644
--- a/src/cmd-database-url.ts
+++ b/src/cmd-database-url.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ async function resolveUrl(resourceName: string) {
         }
     }
 
-    return `mongodb://${credentials}@${dbInfo.host}:${dbInfo.port}/${dbName}?authSource=admin`;
+    return `mongodb://${credentials}@${dbInfo.host}:${dbInfo.port}/${dbName}?authSource=admin&directConnection=true`;
 }
 
 if (!process.argv[2]) {