diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9bd207b86c..e1f6b1ef07 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-lambda` Adds an option to configure `disable_aws_context_propagation` by
   environment variable: `OTEL_LAMBDA_DISABLE_AWS_CONTEXT_PROPAGATION`
   ([#1507](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1507))
-
+- Fix pymongo to collect the property DB_MONGODB_COLLECTION
+  ([#1555](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/1555))
 
 ## Version 1.15.0/0.36b0 (2022-12-10)
 
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymongo/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymongo/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymongo/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymongo/__init__.py
index 4e9ae8a14b..65315b2be5 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymongo/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymongo/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymongo/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymongo/__init__.py
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ def started(self, event: monitoring.CommandStartedEvent):
         statement = event.command_name
         if command:
             statement += " " + str(command)
+        collection = event.command.get(event.command_name)
 
         try:
             span = self._tracer.start_span(name, kind=SpanKind.CLIENT)
@@ -135,6 +136,10 @@ def started(self, event: monitoring.CommandStartedEvent):
                 )
                 span.set_attribute(SpanAttributes.DB_NAME, event.database_name)
                 span.set_attribute(SpanAttributes.DB_STATEMENT, statement)
+                if collection:
+                    span.set_attribute(
+                        SpanAttributes.DB_MONGODB_COLLECTION, collection
+                    )
                 if event.connection_id is not None:
                     span.set_attribute(
                         SpanAttributes.NET_PEER_NAME, event.connection_id[0]
diff --git a/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/pymongo/test_pymongo_functional.py b/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/pymongo/test_pymongo_functional.py
index 92c694953b..e8158c0657 100644
--- a/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/pymongo/test_pymongo_functional.py
+++ b/tests/opentelemetry-docker-tests/tests/pymongo/test_pymongo_functional.py
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ def validate_spans(self):
         self.assertEqual(
             pymongo_span.attributes[SpanAttributes.NET_PEER_PORT], MONGODB_PORT
         )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            pymongo_span.attributes[SpanAttributes.DB_MONGODB_COLLECTION],
+            MONGODB_COLLECTION_NAME,
+        )
 
     def test_insert(self):
         """Should create a child span for insert"""