MongoDB Compass Community: $match in aggregation gives “Expected ”[“ or AggregationStage but ”{“ found.”

Question

I'm using MongoDB Compass Community version 1.17.0. While trying to use $match as the first step, it's giving me this message

Answer 1

Remove new in front of Date from your query.

Use this

{
  utcDate: { $gt : Date("2019-04-01") }
}