I received an email today reminding me that my M0 free will be paused due to my inactivity. However, my database is often active and there are some database connections every day. I think this is a wrong reminder. What should I do?
Your M0 free tier cluster, has been idle since 2025/01/03.
MongoDB Atlas will automatically pause this cluster after 60 days of inactivity, at 5:27 PM EST on 2025/03/08.
Is it possible there’s another project with an idle M0?
1. Verify Recent Activity
Log in to MongoDB Atlas → Navigate to Clusters → Click on your M0 cluster.
Go to the Metrics tab and check for recent database activity, such as:
Active connections
Read/write operations
Query execution history
2. Check Connection Sources
Ensure your database connections are coming from apps, or scripts… and not only from Atlas UI or Compass… some activity (like browsing collections) may not count towards “active usage.”