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Important
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.

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.

To use this resource, your API Key must have the Project Read Only role.

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

GET /groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}
Path Parameter
Type
Necessity
Description
GROUP-ID
Required
string
Unique identifier for the project containing the cluster you want to retrieve.
CLUSTER-NAME
Required
string
Name of the cluster to retrieve.

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

This endpoint doesn't use HTTP request body parameters.

Name
Type
Description
autoScaling
object

Collection of settings that configures auto-scaling information for the cluster.

Tip
autoScaling.compute
object
Collection of settings that configure how a cluster might scale its cluster tier and whether the cluster can scale down.
autoScaling.compute.enabled
boolean
Flag that indicates whether cluster tier auto-scaling is enabled.
autoScaling.compute.scaleDownEnabled
boolean
Flag that indicates whether the cluster tier can scale down.
autoScaling.diskGBEnabled
boolean
Flag that indicates whether disk auto-scaling is enabled.
backupEnabled
boolean

Flag that indicates whether legacy backup has been enabled.

Important

Clusters running MongoDB FCV 4.2 or later and any new Atlas clusters of any type do not support this parameter. These clusters must use Cloud Backups: providerBackupEnabled

This change doesn't affect existing Atlas clusters that use legacy backups.

biConnector
object

Collection of settings that configure a BI Connector for Atlas for the cluster.

The MongoDB Connector for Business Intelligence for Atlas (BI Connector) is only available for M10 and larger clusters.

The BI Connector is a powerful tool which provides users SQL-based access to their MongoDB databases. As a result, the BI Connector performs operations which may be CPU and memory intensive. Given the limited hardware resources on M10 and M20 cluster tiers, you may experience performance degradation of the cluster when enabling the BI Connector. If this occurs, upgrade to an M30 or larger cluster or disable the BI Connector.

biConnector.enabled
boolean
Flag that indicates whether Atlas enabled the BI Connector for Atlas for this cluster.
biConnector.readPreference
string

Source from which the BI Connector for Atlas reads data.

Value
Description
primary
BI Connector for Atlas reads data from the primary.
secondary
BI Connector for Atlas reads data from a secondary.
analytics
BI Connector for Atlas reads data from an
analytics node.
clusterType
string

Type of the cluster:

Value
Description
REPLICASET
SHARDED
GEOSHARDED
connectionStrings
object

Set of connection strings that your applications use to connect to this cluster.

Use the parameters in this object to connect your applications to this cluster.

Atlas returns the contents of this object after the cluster is operational, not while it builds the cluster.

connectionStrings.privateEndpoint
array of objects
Private endpoint connection strings. Each object describes the connection strings you can use to connect to this cluster through a private endpoint. Atlas returns this parameter only if you deployed a private endpoint to all regions to which you deployed this cluster's nodes.
connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].connectionString
string
Private-endpoint-aware mongodb://connection string for this private endpoint.
connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].endpoints
array of objects
Private endpoint through which you connect to Atlas when you use connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].connectionString or connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].srvConnectionString.
connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].endpoints[n].endpointId
string
Unique identifier of the private endpoint.
connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].endpoints[n].providerName
string
Cloud provider to which you deployed the private endpoint. Atlas returns AWS, AZURE, or GCP.
connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].endpoints[n].region
string
Region to which you deployed the private endpoint.
connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].srvConnectionString
string

Private-endpoint-aware mongodb+srv:// connection string for this private endpoint.

The mongodb+srv protocol tells the driver to look up the seed list of hosts in DNS. Atlas synchronizes this list with the nodes in a cluster. If the connection string uses this URI format, you don't need to:

  • Append the seed list or
  • Change the URI if the nodes change.

Use this URI format if your driver supports it. If it doesn't, use connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].connectionString.

Tip
See also:
connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].type
string

Type of MongoDB process that you connect to with the connection strings. Atlas returns:

  • MONGOD for replica sets, or
  • MONGOS for sharded clusters.
connectionStrings.standard
string
Public mongodb:// connection string for this cluster.
connectionStrings.standardSrv
string

Public mongodb+srv:// connection string for this cluster.

Tip
See also:
connectionStrings.private
string

Network-peering-endpoint-aware mongodb://connection strings for each interface VPC endpoint you configured to connect to this cluster. Atlas returns this parameter only if you created a network peering connection to this cluster.

Note

For AWS clusters, Atlas doesn't return this parameter unless you enable custom DNS.

connectionStrings.privateSrv
string

Network-peering-endpoint-aware mongodb+srv:// connection strings for each interface VPC endpoint you configured to connect to this cluster. Atlas returns this parameter only if you created a network peering connection to this cluster.

The mongodb+srv protocol tells the driver to look up the seed list of hosts in DNS. Atlas synchronizes this list with the nodes in a cluster. If the connection string uses this URI format, you don't need to:

  • Append the seed list or
  • Change the URI if the nodes change.

Use this URI format if your driver supports it. If it doesn't, use connectionStrings.private.

Tip
See also:
Note

For AWS clusters, Atlas doesn't return this parameter unless you enable custom DNS.

connectionStrings.awsPrivateLink
object
Important

This field is deprecated. Use connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].connectionString instead.

Note

Atlas returns this parameter only if:

  • the cluster is deployed to AWS, and
  • you deployed a AWS PrivateLink private endpoint to the same regions as all of this cluster's nodes.

Private-endpoint-aware mongodb://connection strings for each AWS PrivateLink private endpoint. Atlas returns this parameter only if you deployed a AWS PrivateLink private endpoint to the same regions as all of this cluster's nodes.

In this object:

  • Each key is the unique identifier of an interface endpoint.
  • Each value is the mongodb:// connection string you use to connect to Atlas through the interface endpoint the key names.
connectionStrings.awsPrivateLinkSrv
object
Important

This field is deprecated. Use connectionStrings.privateEndpoint[n].srvConnectionString instead.

Note

Atlas returns this parameter only if:

  • the cluster is deployed to AWS, and
  • you deployed a AWS PrivateLink private endpoint to the same regions as all of this cluster's nodes.

Private-endpoint-aware mongodb+srv:// connection strings for each AWS PrivateLink private endpoint.

In this object:

  • Each key is the unique identifier of an interface endpoint.
  • Each value is the mongodb+srv:// connection string you use to connect to Atlas through the interface endpoint the key names.

The mongodb+srv protocol tells the driver to look up the seed list of hosts in DNS. Atlas synchronizes this list with the nodes in a cluster. If the connection string uses this URI format, you don't need to:

  • Append the seed list or
  • Change the URI if the nodes change.

Use this URI format if your driver supports it. If it doesn't, use connectionStrings.awsPrivateLink.

Tip
See also:
createDate
string
Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when Atlas created the cluster.
diskSizeGB
number

Capacity, in gigabytes, of the host's root volume. Increase this number to add capacity, up to a maximum possible value of 4096 (4 TB). This value must be a positive number.

Note
When should you use diskSizeGB?

This setting:

The minimum disk size for dedicated clusters is 10 GB for AWS and Google Cloud, and 32 GB for Azure. If you specify diskSizeGB with a lower disk size, Atlas defaults to the minimum disk size value.

Important

Atlas calculates storage charges differently depending on whether you choose the default value or a custom value.

Tip
See also:

The maximum value for disk storage cannot exceed 50 times the maximum RAM for the selected cluster. If you require additional storage space beyond this limitation, consider upgrading your cluster to a higher tier.

encryptionAtRestProvider
string

Cloud service provider that offers Encryption at Rest.

groupId
string
Unique identifier of the project to which the cluster belongs.
id
string
Unique identifier of the cluster.
labels
array of documents
Collection of key-value pairs that tag and categorize the cluster.
mongoDBVersion
string
Version of MongoDB the cluster runs, in <major version>.<minor version>.<patch version> format.
mongoDBMajorVersion
string

Major version of MongoDB the cluster runs:

  • 4.0
  • 4.2
  • 4.4
  • 5.0
mongoURI
string

Base connection string for the cluster.

Atlas only displays this parameter after the cluster is operational, not while it builds the cluster.

mongoURIUpdated
string
Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when the connection string was last updated. The connection string changes if you update any of the other values.
mongoURIWithOptions
string

connection string for connecting to the Atlas cluster. Includes the replicaSet, ssl, and authSource query parameters in the connection string with values appropriate for the cluster.

To review the connection string format, see the connection string format documentation. To add database users to a Atlas project, see Configure Database Users.

Atlas only displays this parameter after the cluster is operational, not while it builds the cluster.

name
string
Name of the cluster as it appears in Atlas.
numShards
number

Positive integer that specifies the number of shards for a sharded cluster.

If this is set to 1, the cluster is a replica set.

If this is set to 2 or higher, the cluster is a sharded cluster with the number of shards specified.

Tip
See also:

Atlas might return values between 1 and 50.

Note

Atlas doesn't return this value in the response body for Global Clusters.

paused
boolean
Flag that indicates whether the cluster is paused.
pitEnabled
boolean
Flag that indicates if the cluster uses Continuous Cloud Backup backups.
providerBackupEnabled
boolean

This applies to dedicated clusters, M10 or greater, only.

Flag that indicates if the cluster uses Cloud Backups for backups.

If true, the cluster uses Cloud Backups for backups. If providerBackupEnabled and backupEnabled are false, the cluster does not use Atlas backups.

providerSettings
object
Configuration for the provisioned hosts on which MongoDB runs. The available options are specific to the cloud service provider.
providerSettings.autoScaling
object

Range of instance sizes to which your cluster can scale.

Important

You can't specify the providerSettings.autoScaling object if "autoScaling.compute.enabled" : false.

providerSettings.autoScaling.compute
object
Range of instance sizes to which your cluster can scale. Atlas requires this parameter if "autoScaling.compute.enabled" : true.
providerSettings.autoScaling.compute.minInstanceSize
string
Minimum instance size to which your cluster can automatically scale.
providerSettings.autoScaling.compute.maxInstanceSize
string
Maximum instance size to which your cluster can automatically scale.
providerSettings.backingProviderName
string

Cloud service provider on which the multi-tenant host is provisioned. Atlas returns this parameter only if "providerSettings.providerName" : "TENANT".

Atlas can return:

AWS
Amazon AWS
GCP
Google Cloud Platform
AZURE
Microsoft Azure
TENANT

M2 or M5 multi-tenant cluster

Use providerSettings.backingProviderName to set the cloud service provider.

providerSettings.providerName
string

Cloud service provider on which Atlas provisioned the hosts.

Atlas can return:

AWS
Amazon AWS
GCP
Google Cloud Platform
AZURE
Microsoft Azure
TENANT

M2 or M5 multi-tenant cluster

Use providerSettings.backingProviderName to set the cloud service provider.

TENANT

M2 or M5 multi-tenant cluster.

See providerSettings.backingProviderName for the cloud service provider where Atlas provisioned the host serving the cluster.

providerSettings.regionName
string

Physical location of your MongoDB cluster. The region you choose can affect network latency for clients accessing your databases.

For a complete list of region name values, refer to the the cloud provider reference pages:

For multi-region clusters, see replicationSpec.<region>.

providerSettings.diskIOPS
number
Maximum IOPS the system can perform.
providerSettings.diskTypeName
string

Disk type of the host's root volume for Azure instances.

The following table lists the possible values for this parameter, and their corresponding storage size.

diskTypeName
Storage Size
P2 [1]
8GB
P3 [2]
16GB
P4 [3]
32GB
P6 [4]
64GB
P10
128GB
P15
256GB
P20
512GB
P30
1024GB
P40
2048GB
P50
4095GB
[1] Default for M10 Azure clusters
[2] Default for M20 Azure clusters
[3] Default for M30 Azure clusters
[4] Default for M40+ Azure clusters
providerSettings.encryptEBSVolume
boolean
Flag that indicates whether the Amazon EBS encryption feature encrypts the host's root volume for both data at rest within the volume and for data moving between the volume and the cluster.
providerSettings.instanceSizeName
string

Name of the cluster tier used for the Atlas cluster.

Atlas supports the following cluster tiers. Atlas supports deploying M2 and M5 tiers into a subset of available regions. The documentation for providersettings.regionName includes a list of these regions.

Note
Cluster Tier Naming Conventions

Cluster tier names that are:

  • Appended with _NVME (M40_NVME for example) use direct attached NVMe storage for exceptional performance with the most I/O-intensive workloads.
  • Prepended with R instead of an M (R40 for example) run a low CPU version of the cluster.

M2 and M5 clusters are multi-tenant deployments. You must set providerSettings.providerName to TENANT and specify the cloud service provider in providerSettings.backingProviderName.

replicationFactor
number

Number of replica set members. Each member keeps a copy of your databases, providing high availability and data redundancy.

For multi-region clusters, add the total number of replicationSpec.<region>.electableNodes to calculate the replication factor of the cluster.

If your cluster is a sharded cluster, each shard is a replica set with the specified replication factor.

Atlas may return 3, 5, or 7.

replicationSpec
object
Configuration of each region in the cluster. Each element in this object represents a region where Atlas deploys your cluster.
replicationSpec.<region>
object

Physical location of the region. The <region> string corresponds to a region where Atlas deploys your cluster.

Each <region> object describes the region's priority in elections and the number and type of MongoDB nodes Atlas deploys to the region.

replicationSpec.<region>.analyticsNodes
number
Number of analytics nodes in the region. Analytics nodes are useful for handling analytic data such as reporting queries from BI Connector for Atlas. Analytics nodes are read-only, and can never become the primary.
replicationSpec.<region>.electableNodes
number
Number of electable nodes in the region. Electable nodes can become the primary and can facilitate local reads.
replicationSpec.<region>.priority
number

Election priority of the region. The highest possible priority is 7, which identifies the Preferred Region of the cluster. Atlas places the primary node in the Preferred Region. The lowest possible priority is 0, which identifies a read-only region.

You can have any number of priority 0 read only regions. Priorities 1 through 7 are exclusive: only one region per cluster can be assigned a given priority.

replicationSpec.<region>.readOnlyNodes
number
Number of read-only nodes in the region. Read-only nodes can never become the primary member, but can facilitate local reads.
replicationSpecs
array
Configuration for each zone in a Global Cluster. Each object in this array represents a zone where Atlas deploys nodes for your Global Cluster.
replicationSpecs[n].id
string
Unique identifier of the replication object.
replicationSpecs[n].zoneName
string
Name for the zone.
replicationSpecs[n].numShards
number
Number of shards to deploy in the specified zone.
replicationSpecs[n].regionsConfig
object
Physical location of the region. Each regionsConfig object describes the region's priority in elections and the number and type of MongoDB nodes that Atlas deploys to the region.
replicationSpecs[n].regionsConfig.<region>.analyticsNodes
number

Number of analytics nodes for Atlas to deploy to the region. Analytics nodes are useful for handling analytic data such as reporting queries from BI Connector for Atlas. Analytics nodes are read-only, and can never become the primary.

replicationSpecs[n].regionsConfig.<region>.electableNodes
number
Number of electable nodes for Atlas to deploy to the region. Electable nodes can become the primary and can facilitate local reads.
replicationSpecs[n].regionsConfig.<region>.readOnlyNodes
number

Number of read-only nodes for Atlas to deploy to the region. Read-only nodes can never become the primary, but can facilitate local-reads.

Specify 0 if you do not want any read-only nodes in the region.

replicationSpecs[n].regionsConfig.<region>.priority
number
Election priority of the region. If you have regions with only read-only nodes, set this value to 0.
replicationSpecs[n].zoneName
string
Name for the zone in a Global Cluster. Do not provide this value if clusterType is not GEOSHARDED.
rootCertType
string

Certificate Authority that MongoDB Atlas clusters use. Value can be ISRGROOTX1 (for ISRG Root X1).

Note

Beginning on 1 May 2021, new TLS certificates that MongoDB Atlas creates use ISRG instead of IdenTrust for their root Certificate Authority in line with Let's Encrypt's announcement of this transition.

srvAddress
string
Connection string for connecting to the Atlas cluster. The +srv modifier forces the connection to use TLS. The mongoURI parameter lists additional options.
stateName
string

Current state of the cluster. The possible states are:

  • IDLE
  • CREATING
  • UPDATING
  • DELETING
  • DELETED
  • REPAIRING
versionReleaseSystem
string

Release cadence that Atlas uses for this cluster. Atlas supports:

  • CONTINUOUS: Atlas automatically updates your cluster to the latest major and rapid MongoDB releases as they become available.
  • LTS: Atlas automatically updates your cluster to subsequent patch releases of this MongoDB version. Atlas doesn't update your cluster to newer rapid or major MongoDB releases as they become available.
curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
--include \
--request GET "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/{CLUSTER-NAME}?pretty=true"
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
1{
2 "autoScaling":{
3 "compute":{
4 "enabled":false,
5 "scaleDownEnabled":false
6 },
7 "diskGBEnabled":true
8 },
9 "backupEnabled":false,
10 "biConnector":{
11 "enabled":false,
12 "readPreference":"secondary"
13 },
14 "clusterType":"REPLICASET",
15 "connectionStrings":{
16 "privateEndpoint":[
17 {
18 "connectionString":"mongodb://pl-0-us-east-1.uzgh6.mongodb.net:1024,pl-0-us-east-1.uzgh6.mongodb.net:1025,pl-0-us-east-1.uzgh6.mongodb.net:1026/?ssl=true&authSource=admin&replicaSet=atlas-8dhkjj-shard-0",
19 "endpoints":[
20 {
21 "endpointId":"vpce-0c86b555d9a233152",
22 "providerName":"AWS",
23 "region":"US_EAST_1"
24 }
25 ],
26 "srvConnectionString":"mongodb+srv://cluster1-pl-0.uzgh6.mongodb.net",
27 "type":"MONGOD"
28 }
29 ],
30 "standardSrv":"mongodb+srv://cluster1.uzgh6.mongodb.net",
31 "awsPrivateLink":{
32 "vpce-0c86b555d9a233152":"mongodb://pl-0-us-east-1.uzgh6.mongodb.net:1024,pl-0-us-east-1.uzgh6.mongodb.net:1025,pl-0-us-east-1.uzgh6.mongodb.net:1026/?ssl=true&authSource=admin&replicaSet=atlas-8dhkjj-shard-0"
33 },
34 "awsPrivateLinkSrv":{
35 "vpce-0c86b555d9a233152":"mongodb+srv://cluster1-pl-0.uzgh6.mongodb.net"
36 },
37 "standard":"mongodb://cluster1-shard-00-00.uzgh6.mongodb.net:27017,cluster1-shard-00-01.uzgh6.mongodb.net:27017,cluster1-shard-00-02.uzgh6.mongodb.net:27017/?ssl=true&authSource=admin&replicaSet=atlas-8dhkjj-shard-0"
38 },
39 "createDate":"2020-10-03T17:34:08Z",
40 "diskSizeGB":100.0,
41 "encryptionAtRestProvider":"NONE",
42 "groupId":"{GROUP-ID}",
43 "id":"{CLUSTER-ID}",
44 "labels":[
45
46 ],
47 "mongoDBMajorVersion":"4.0",
48 "mongoDBVersion":"4.0.13",
49 "mongoURIUpdated":"2020-10-04T17:34:08Z",
50 "name":"SingleRegionCluster",
51 "numShards":1,
52 "paused":false,
53 "pitEnabled":false,
54 "providerBackupEnabled":true,
55 "providerSettings":{
56 "providerName":"AWS",
57 "autoScaling":{
58 "compute":{
59 "maxInstanceSize":null,
60 "minInstanceSize":null
61 }
62 },
63 "diskIOPS":300,
64 "encryptEBSVolume":true,
65 "instanceSizeName":"M40",
66 "regionName":"US_EAST_1",
67 "volumeType":"STANDARD"
68 },
69 "replicationFactor":3,
70 "replicationSpec":{
71 "US_EAST_1":{
72 "analyticsNodes":0,
73 "electableNodes":3,
74 "priority":7,
75 "readOnlyNodes":0
76 }
77 },
78 "replicationSpecs":[
79 {
80 "id":"{REPLICA-ID}",
81 "numShards":1,
82 "regionsConfig":{
83 "US_EAST_1":{
84 "analyticsNodes":0,
85 "electableNodes":3,
86 "priority":7,
87 "readOnlyNodes":0
88 }
89 },
90 "zoneName":"Zone 1"
91 }
92 ],
93 "stateName":"IDLE",
94 "rootCertType": "ISRGROOTX1",
95 "srvAddress":"mongodb+srv://cluster0-uzgh6.mongodb.net",
96 "links":[
97 {
98 "href":"https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/SingleRegionCluster",
99 "rel":"self"
100 },
101 {
102 "href":"https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/SingleRegionCluster/restoreJobs",
103 "rel":"http://mms.mongodb.com/restoreJobs"
104 },
105 {
106 "href":"https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/{GROUP-ID}/clusters/SingleRegionCluster/snapshots",
107 "rel":"http://mms.mongodb.com/snapshots"
108 }
109 ]
110}
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