Deploy a sharded cluster with one PRIMARY, one SECONDARY, one ARBITER for each shard.   db.createView( "view_name" , "logging" , [{ $limit: 1 }]) connect to one secondary shard host and stop mongod service     use admin rs.status() { "set" : "shard_04" , "date" : ISODate( "2020-10-02T09:31:39.552+0200" ), "myState" : 1.0, "term" : 17, "syncSourceHost" : "", "syncSourceId" : -1.0, "heartbeatIntervalMillis" : 2000, "majorityVoteCount" : 2.0, "writeMajorityCount" : 2.0, "votingMembersCount" : 3.0, "writableVotingMembersCount" : 2.0, "optimes" : { "lastCommittedOpTime" : { "ts" : Timestamp(1601623647, 19), "t" : 17 }, "lastCommittedWallTime" : ISODate( "2020-10-02T09:27:27.260+0200" ), "readConcernMajorityOpTime" : { "ts" : Timestamp(1601623647, 19), "t" : 17 }, "readConcernMajorityWallTime" : ISODate( "2020-10-02T09:27:27.260+0200" ), "appliedOpTime" : { "ts" : Timestamp(1601623897, 4), "t" : 17 }, "durableOpTime" : { "ts" : Timestamp(1601623897, 4), "t" : 17 }, "lastAppliedWallTime" : ISODate( "2020-10-02T09:31:37.383+0200" ), "lastDurableWallTime" : ISODate( "2020-10-02T09:31:37.383+0200" ) }, "electionCandidateMetrics" : { "lastElectionReason" : "electionTimeout" , "lastElectionDate" : ISODate( "2020-10-01T19:10:25.561+0200" ), "electionTerm" : 17, "lastCommittedOpTimeAtElection" : { "ts" : Timestamp(1601572203, 22434), "t" : 16 }, "lastSeenOpTimeAtElection" : { "ts" : Timestamp(1601572203, 22978), "t" : 16 }, "numVotesNeeded" : 2.0, "priorityAtElection" : 1.0, "electionTimeoutMillis" : 10000, "numCatchUpOps" : 0, "newTermStartDate" : ISODate( "2020-10-01T19:10:25.571+0200" ), "wMajorityWriteAvailabilityDate" : ISODate( "2020-10-02T08:48:23.861+0200" ) }, "members" : [ { "_id" : 0.0, "name" : "d-mipmdb-sh1-04.swi.srse.net:27018" , "health" : 0.0, "state" : 8.0, "stateStr" : "(not reachable/healthy)" , "uptime" : 0.0, "optime" : { "ts" : Timestamp(0, 0), "t" : -1 }, "optimeDurable" : { "ts" : Timestamp(0, 0), "t" : -1 }, "optimeDate" : ISODate( "1970-01-01T01:00:00.000+0100" ), "optimeDurableDate" : ISODate( "1970-01-01T01:00:00.000+0100" ), "lastHeartbeat" : ISODate( "2020-10-02T09:31:37.979+0200" ), "lastHeartbeatRecv" : ISODate( "2020-10-02T09:27:27.697+0200" ), "pingMs" : 0, "lastHeartbeatMessage" : "Error connecting to d-mipmdb-sh1-04.swi.srse.net:27018 (10.192.241.232:27018) :: caused by :: Connection refused" , "syncSourceHost" : "", "syncSourceId" : -1.0, "infoMessage" : "", "configVersion" : 4.0, "configTerm" : 17.0 }, { "_id" : 1.0, "name" : "d-mipmdb-sh2-04.swi.srse.net:27018" , "health" : 1.0, "state" : 1.0, "stateStr" : "PRIMARY" , "uptime" : 609587.0, "optime" : { "ts" : Timestamp(1601623897, 4), "t" : 17 }, "optimeDate" : ISODate( "2020-10-02T09:31:37.000+0200" ), "syncSourceHost" : "", "syncSourceId" : -1.0, "infoMessage" : "", "electionTime" : Timestamp(1601572225, 1), "electionDate" : ISODate( "2020-10-01T19:10:25.000+0200" ), "configVersion" : 4.0, "configTerm" : 17.0, "self" : true , "lastHeartbeatMessage" : "" }, { "_id" : 2.0, "name" : "d-mipmdb-arb-01.swi.srse.net:28004" , "health" : 1.0, "state" : 7.0, "stateStr" : "ARBITER" , "uptime" : 609585.0, "lastHeartbeat" : ISODate( "2020-10-02T09:31:37.736+0200" ), "lastHeartbeatRecv" : ISODate( "2020-10-02T09:31:37.665+0200" ), "pingMs" : 0, "lastHeartbeatMessage" : "", "syncSourceHost" : "", "syncSourceId" : -1.0, "infoMessage" : "", "configVersion" : 4.0, "configTerm" : 17.0 } ], "ok" : 1.0, "$gleStats" : { "lastOpTime" : Timestamp(0, 0), "electionId" : ObjectId( "7fffffff0000000000000011" ) }, "lastCommittedOpTime" : Timestamp(1601623647, 19), "$configServerState" : { "opTime" : { "ts" : Timestamp(1601623897, 4), "t" : 47 } }, "$clusterTime" : { "clusterTime" : Timestamp(1601623897, 4), "signature" : { "hash" : BinData(0, "o65tIB0ciyabvK7BgHkqzeDlGgI=" ), "keyId" : 6854861305854033921 } }, "operationTime" : Timestamp(1601623897, 4) }   Then on mongos router try to drop the view:   db.getCollection( "view_name" ).drop() Error: drop failed: { "ok" : 0, "errmsg" : "Error dropping collection on shard shard_04 :: caused by :: waiting for replication timed out; Error details: { wtimeout: true , writeConcern: { w: \" majority\ ", wtimeout: 60000, provenance: \" clientSupplied\ " } }" , "code" : 64, "codeName" : "WriteConcernFailed" , "operationTime" : Timestamp(1601623101, 27), "$clusterTime" : { "clusterTime" : Timestamp(1601623101, 27), "signature" : { "hash" : BinData(0, "9paE792KGvbZH2FbsZgtWcJnTrI=" ), "keyId" : NumberLong( "6854861305854033921" ) } } } : _getErrorWithCode@src/mongo/shell / utils.js: 25: 13 DBCollection.prototype.drop@src/mongo/shell / collection.js: 701: 15 @(shell): 1: 1 Even db.getCollection( "view_name" ).drop( { writeConcern: { w: 1 } } ); does not work. You get the same error.