diff --git a/x/mongo/driver/topology/rtt_monitor.go b/x/mongo/driver/topology/rtt_monitor.go
index 998d2a0253..1a1c37b296 100644
--- a/x/mongo/driver/topology/rtt_monitor.go
+++ b/x/mongo/driver/topology/rtt_monitor.go
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ type rttMonitor struct {
 	cfg      *rttConfig
 	ctx      context.Context
 	cancelFn context.CancelFunc
+	started  bool
 }
 
 var _ driver.RTTMonitor = &rttMonitor{}
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ func newRTTMonitor(cfg *rttConfig) *rttMonitor {
 
 func (r *rttMonitor) connect() {
 	r.closeWg.Add(1)
+	r.started = true
 	go r.start()
 }
 
@@ -89,6 +91,8 @@ func (r *rttMonitor) start() {
 
 	var conn *connection
 	defer func() {
+		r.started = false
+
 		if conn != nil {
 			// If the connection exists, we need to wait for it to be connected because
 			// conn.connect() and conn.close() cannot be called concurrently. If the connection
diff --git a/x/mongo/driver/topology/server.go b/x/mongo/driver/topology/server.go
index 0c9144f5f4..e88cff8084 100644
--- a/x/mongo/driver/topology/server.go
+++ b/x/mongo/driver/topology/server.go
@@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ func (s *Server) Connect(updateCallback updateTopologyCallback) error {
 	s.updateTopologyCallback.Store(updateCallback)
 
 	if !s.cfg.monitoringDisabled && !s.cfg.loadBalanced {
-		s.rttMonitor.connect()
 		s.closewg.Add(1)
 		go s.update()
 	}
@@ -655,12 +654,15 @@ func (s *Server) update() {
 		// If the server supports streaming or we're already streaming, we want to move to streaming the next response
 		// without waiting. If the server has transitioned to Unknown from a network error, we want to do another
 		// check without waiting in case it was a transient error and the server isn't actually down.
-		serverSupportsStreaming := desc.Kind != description.Unknown && desc.TopologyVersion != nil
 		connectionIsStreaming := s.conn != nil && s.conn.getCurrentlyStreaming()
 		transitionedFromNetworkError := desc.LastError != nil && unwrapConnectionError(desc.LastError) != nil &&
 			previousDescription.Kind != description.Unknown
 
-		if serverSupportsStreaming || connectionIsStreaming || transitionedFromNetworkError {
+		if isStreamingEnabled(s) && isStreamable(s) && !s.rttMonitor.started {
+			s.rttMonitor.connect()
+		}
+
+		if isStreamable(s) || connectionIsStreaming || transitionedFromNetworkError {
 			continue
 		}
 
@@ -796,23 +798,22 @@ func (s *Server) createBaseOperation(conn driver.Connection) *operation.Hello {
 		ServerAPI(s.cfg.serverAPI)
 }
 
-// isStreamable returns whether or not we can use the streaming protocol to
-// optimally reduces the time it takes for a client to discover server state
-// changes. Streaming must be disabled if any of the following are true:
-//
-//   - the client is configured with serverMonitoringMode=poll [P], or
-//   - the client is configured with serverMonitoringMode=auto [A] and a FaaS
-//     platform is detected [F], or
-//   - the server does not support streaming (eg MongoDB <4.4) [S].
-//
-// I.e, streaming must be disabled if: P ∨ (A ∧ F) ∨ (~S) ≡ ~P ∧ (~A ∨ ~F) ∧ S
-func isStreamable(previousDesc description.Server, srv *Server) bool {
-	srvMonitoringMode := srv.cfg.serverMonitoringMode
-	faas := driverutil.GetFaasEnvName()
-
-	return srvMonitoringMode != connstring.ServerMonitoringModePoll && // P
-		(srvMonitoringMode != connstring.ServerMonitoringModeAuto || faas == "") && // (~A ∨ ~F)
-		previousDesc.TopologyVersion != nil // S
+func isStreamingEnabled(srv *Server) bool {
+	mode := srv.cfg.serverMonitoringMode
+
+	if mode == connstring.ServerMonitoringModeStream {
+		return true
+	}
+
+	if mode == connstring.ServerMonitoringModeAuto {
+		return driverutil.GetFaasEnvName() == ""
+	}
+
+	return false
+}
+
+func isStreamable(srv *Server) bool {
+	return srv.Description().Kind != description.Unknown && srv.Description().TopologyVersion != nil
 }
 
 func (s *Server) check() (description.Server, error) {
@@ -850,7 +851,7 @@ func (s *Server) check() (description.Server, error) {
 		heartbeatConn := initConnection{s.conn}
 		baseOperation := s.createBaseOperation(heartbeatConn)
 		previousDescription := s.Description()
-		streamable := isStreamable(previousDescription, s)
+		streamable := isStreamingEnabled(s) && isStreamable(s)
 
 		s.publishServerHeartbeatStartedEvent(s.conn.ID(), s.conn.getCurrentlyStreaming() || streamable)
 		switch {