Pause, Resume, or Terminate a Cluster
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You can pause, resume, or terminate your clusters. For serverless instances, see Terminate a Serverless Instance.
Considerations for Paused Clusters
You can't:
- Change the configuration of a paused cluster.
- Read data from or write data to a paused cluster.
For paused clusters, Atlas:
- Stops triggering configured alerts.
- Stops all backups. Your existing snapshots remain until they expire.
Pause One Cluster
Serverless instances are in preview and do not support this feature at this time. To learn more, see Serverless Instance Limitations.
Depending on your cluster tier, Atlas either pauses clusters automatically or when you manually initiate it.
To pause a cluster with the Atlas Administration API, see Modify a Cluster.
Resume One Cluster
Serverless instances are in preview and do not support this feature at this time. To learn more, see Serverless Instance Limitations.
To resume collection of monitoring information for an Atlas M0
cluster paused for monitoring, connect to that cluster using a
MongoDB Driver, mongosh, or
Data Explorer.
To resume an Atlas M0 cluster that Atlas paused due to
inactivity, or an Atlas M10+ cluster that you paused previously:
Navigate to the Database Deployments page for your project.
- If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
- If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
- If the Database Deployments page is not already displayed, click Databases in the sidebar.
Resume the cluster.
For the cluster you want to pause, either:
- Click , then click Resume, or
- Click Resume.
If you don't resume an M10+ cluster within 30 days, Atlas
resumes the cluster.
Terminate One Cluster
To terminate an Atlas cluster:
Navigate to the Database Deployments page for your project.
- If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
- If it is not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
- If the Database Deployments page is not already displayed, click Databases in the sidebar.
Click next to the cluster you want to terminate.
Click Terminate.
Atlas terminates the cluster after completing any in-progress deployment changes.
Atlas bills for the hours that the cluster was active. To learn more about Atlas billing, see Manage Billing.
Terminating a cluster also deletes any backup snapshots for that cluster. See Snapshot Schedule.