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Create an Online Archive

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  • Request Path Parameters
  • Request Query Parameters
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  • Response Elements
  • Examples
  • Date Criteria Examples
  • Custom Criteria Example
  • Error Codes

You can create an online archive from the API and Atlas UI. You must have the GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN (Project Data Access Admin) role to create an online archive.

The Atlas Administration API authenticates using HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide a programmatic API public key and corresponding private key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request. To learn how to configure API access for an Atlas project, see Get Started with the Atlas Administration API.

Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {GROUP-ID} is the same as your project ID. For existing groups, your group/project ID remains the same. The resource and corresponding endpoints use the term groups.

https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0

POST /groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}/onlineArchives
Path Element
Necessity
Description
GROUP-ID
Required
Unique identifier for the project that contains the specified cluster.
CLUSTER-NAME
Required
Name of the cluster that contains the collection for which you want to create an online archive.

This endpoint might use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas Administration API resources. All of these are optional.

Name
Type
Necessity
Description
Default
pretty
boolean
Optional
Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format.
false
envelope
boolean
Optional

Flag indicating if Atlas should wrap the response in a JSON envelope.

This option may be needed for some API clients. These clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

status
HTTP response code
envelope
Expected response body
false
Name
Type
Necessity
Description
collName
string
Required
Name of the collection for which to create an online archive.
collectionType
string
Optional

Type of collection. Value can be one of the following:

  • STANDARD - for a standard collection
  • TIMESERIES - for a time series collection

If value is TIMESERIES:

  • criteria.type must be date
  • criteria.dateFormat must be ISODATE
Important
Preview

Online Archive for timeseries collection is available as a Preview. The feature and corresponding documentation may change at any time in the Preview stage.

If omitted, defaults to STANDARD.

dbName
string
Required
Name of the database that contains the collection.
criteria
object
Required
Criteria to use for archiving data.
criteria.type
string
Required

Type of criteria. Value can be one of the following:

  • DATE - to select documents for archiving based on a date.
  • CUSTOM - to select documents for archiving based on a custom JSON query. This is not supported for time series collections.
criteria.dateField
string
Conditional

Required if criteria.type is DATE.

Name of an already indexed date field from the documents. For a time series collection, field name must correspond to the timeField in the time series collection. Data is archived when the current date is greater than the value of the date field specified here plus the number of days specified via the expireAfterDays parameter.

criteria.dateFormat
enum
Optional

If criteria.type is DATE, the date format. Value can be one of the following:

  • ISODATE - ISO-8601 format date (default)
  • EPOCH_SECONDS - Unix timestamp in seconds
  • EPOCH_MILLIS - Unix timestamp in milliseconds
  • EPOCH_NANOSECONDS - Unix timestamp in nanoseconds

Only ISODATE is supported for time series collections.

If omitted, defaults to ISODATE.

criteria.expireAfterDays
int
Conditional

Required if criteria.type is DATE.

Number of days that specifies the age limit for the data in the live Atlas cluster. Data is archived when the current date is greater than the value of the date field specified via the dateField parameter plus the number of days specified here.

criteria.query
string
Conditional

Required if criteria.type is CUSTOM.

JSON query to use to select documents for archiving. Atlas uses the specified query with the db.collection.find (query) command. The empty document {} to return all documents is not supported.

partitionFields
document array
Optional

Fields to use to partition data. You can specify up to two frequently queried fields to use for partitioning data. Note that queries that don’t contain the specified fields will require a full collection scan of all archived documents, which will take longer and increase your costs. To learn more about how partition improves query performance, see Data Structure in S3.

The value of a partition field can be up to a maximum of 700 characters. Documents with values exceeding 700 characters are not archived.

partitionFields.fieldName
string
Required
Name of the field. To specify a nested field, use the dot notation.
partitionFields.order
int
Required

Position of the field in the partition. Value can be:

  • 0 - for the first position
  • 1 - for the second position
  • 2 - for the third position

By default, the date field specified in the criteria.dateField parameter is in the first position of the partition.

Name
Type
Description
id
string
ID of the online archive.
clusterName
string
Name of the cluster that contains the collection.
collName
string
Name of the collection.
collectionType
string

Type of collection. Value can be one of the following:

  • STANDARD - for standard collection
  • TIMESERIES - for time series collection

    Important
    Preview

    Online Archive for timeseries collection is available as a Preview. The feature and corresponding documentation may change at any time in the Preview stage.

criteria
document
Criteria to use for archiving data.
criteria.type
string

Type of criteria. Value can be one of the following:

  • DATE - to select documents for archiving based on a date.
  • CUSTOM - to select documents for archiving based on a custom JSON query.
criteria.dateField
string
If criteria.type is DATE, name of the date field that the online archive is based on. Data is archived when the current date is after the date specified here plus the number of days specified via the expireAfterDays parameter.
criteria.dateFormat
enum

If criteria.type is DATE, the date format. Value can be one of the following:

  • ISODATE - ISO-8601 format date (default)
  • EPOCH_SECONDS - Unix timestamp in seconds
  • EPOCH_MILLIS - Unix timestamp in milliseconds
  • EPOCH_NANOSECONDS - Unix timestamp in nanoseconds
criteria.expireAfterDays
int
If criteria.type is DATE, number of days that specifies the age limit for the data in the live Atlas cluster. Data is archived when the current date is greater than the value of the date field specified via the dateField parameter plus the number of days specified here.
criteria.query
int
If criteria.type is CUSTOM, JSON query used to select documents for archiving. The specified query is used with the db.collection.find(query) command.
dbName
string
Name of the database that contains the collection.
groupId
string
Unique identifier of the project that contains the cluster.
partitionFields
document array
Fields to use to partition data.
partitionFields.fieldName
string
Name of the field.
partitionFields.fieldType
string
Data type of the field.
partitionFields.order
int

Position of the field in the partition. Value can be:

  • 0 - for the first position
  • 1 - for the second position
  • 2 - for the third position
paused
boolean

State of the online archive. Value is:

  • true if the online archive is in paused state.
  • false if the online archive is in pending or active state.
state
string

Status of the online archive. Valid values are:

Pending
Indicates documents are queued for archive, but archiving has not yet started.
Archiving
Indicates archiving has started. In this state, the documents that meet the criteria for archiving are being archived.
Idle
Indicates online archive is waiting for the next archival job to start.
Pausing
Indicates that you have requested to pause archiving. In this state, Atlas is finishing the running archiving operation and therefore, Atlas has not yet put archiving on hold. The online archive transitions to the Paused state when the running archiving operation finishes.
Paused
Indicates archiving has been temporarily stopped. In this state, previously archived documents continue to be available on the cloud object storage for querying, but the specified archiving operation on the active cluster is put on hold and additional documents are not archived. You can resume archiving for paused archives at any time.
Orphaned
Indicates collection associated with an active or paused online archive was deleted. Atlas will not automatically delete the archived data. You must manually delete the online archives associated with the deleted collection.
Deleted
Indicates online archive was deleted. When you delete an online archive, associated archived documents are removed from the cloud object storage.

The following example request creates an online archive for an example people.employees collection in a cluster named myTestClstr. Documents in the collection will be selected for archiving based on a custom query and data is partitioned based on the firstName and lastName fields.

Example Request

curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--include \
--request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/5e2211c17a3e5a48f5497de3/clusters/myTestClstr/onlineArchives?pretty=true" \
--data '
{
"dbName": "people",
"collName": "employees",
"partitionFields": [
{
"fieldName": "firstName",
"order": 0
},
{
"fieldName": "lastName",
"order": 1
}],
"criteria": {
"type": "CUSTOM",
"query": "{ \"department\": \"engineering\" }"
}
}'

Example Response

{
"_id": "5f9856146b3c0c4e454b9409",
"clusterName": "osTest",
"collName": "employees",
"collectionType": "STANDARD",
"criteria": {
"type": "CUSTOM",
"query": "{department: engineering}"
},
"dbName": "people",
"groupId": "5e2211c17a3e5a48f5497de3",
"partitionFields": [
{
"fieldName": "name.firstName",
"fieldType": null,
"order": 0
},
{
"fieldName": "name.lastName",
"fieldType": null,
"order": 1
}
],
"paused": false,
"state": "PENDING"
}

If the request fails, it returns one of the following errors:

Error Code
Description
INVALID_GROUP_ID
The specified project ID is not valid.
CLUSTER_NOT_FOUND
There is no cluster with the specified name in the specified project.
CLUSTER_DELETE_REQUESTED
The cluster for the online archive is being deleted.
ONLINE_ARCHIVE_ALREADY_EXISTS
An online archive with identical settings already exists.
NAMESPACE_HAS_ONLINE_ARCHIVE
The collection has another active online archive and so, an online archive with the specified criteria can't be created.
RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND
The specified archive ID is not valid.
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