Upgrading from MongoDB 2.4 to 3.6 I wish to upgrade my mongo from 2.4 to 3.6. As i see in the official documents, and googling, that i need to do an upgrade for each 0.2 version, meaning doing 6 (!!!) upgrades in order to upgrade my db to 3.6.

Is this in any way avoidable? this process is messy as it requires doing so on many servers and on many of our clients.

Furthermore, i cannot seem to make any upgrade work. i have downloaded the 2.6 version and tried to make an upgrade but all the available executable's from mongo's official website have resulted in an unknown exception.

Any advice will be welcomed as im a bit lost in this process.
The best option is (my opinion) mongoexport data to disk and then mongoimport it to 3.6.