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Starts a failover test for the specified cluster in the specified project.

Clusters contain a group of hosts that maintain the same data set. A failover test checks how MongoDB Cloud handles the failure of the cluster's primary node. During the test, MongoDB Cloud shuts down the primary node and elects a new primary.

Command Syntax
atlas clusters failover <clusterName> [options]
Name
Type
Required
Description
clusterName
string
true
Human-readable label that identifies the cluster to start a failover test for.
Name
Type
Required
Description
--force
false
Flag that indicates whether to skip the confirmation prompt before proceeding with the requested action.
-h, --help
false
help for failover
--projectId
string
false
Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable.
Name
Type
Required
Description
-P, --profile
string
false
Name of the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings.

If the command succeeds, the CLI returns output similar to the following sample. Values in brackets represent your values.

Failover test for '<Name>' started
# Test failover for a cluster named myCluster:
atlas clusters failover myCluster
←  atlas clusters describeatlas clusters indexes →

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