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Upgrade a shared cluster's tier, disk size, and/or MongoDB version.

This command is unavailable for dedicated clusters.

To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account or an API key with the Project Cluster Manager role.

Command Syntax
atlas clusters upgrade [clusterName] [options]
Name
Type
Required
Description
clusterName
string
false
Name of the cluster to upgrade.
Name
Type
Required
Description
--disableTerminationProtection
false

Disables termination protection for your cluster. You can delete a cluster with termination protection disabled.

Mutually exclusive with --enableTerminationProtection, --file.

--diskSizeGB
float
false

Capacity, in gigabytes, of the host's root volume.

Mutually exclusive with --file.

--enableTerminationProtection
false

Enables termination protection for your cluster. You can't delete a cluster with termination protection enabled.

Mutually exclusive with --disableTerminationProtection, --file.

-f, --file
string
false

Path to an optional JSON configuration file that defines cluster settings. To learn more about cluster configuration files for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/cluster-config-file-atlascli. To learn more about cluster configuration files for MongoCLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/mms-cluster-settings-file-mcli.

Mutually exclusive with --tier, --diskSizeGB, --mdbVersion, --enableTerminationProtection, --disableTerminationProtection, --tag.

-h, --help
false
help for upgrade
--mdbVersion
string
false

Major MongoDB version of the cluster.

Mutually exclusive with --file.

-o, --output
string
false
Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. To see the full output, use the -o json option.
--projectId
string
false
Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable.
--tag
key=value
false

List that contains key-value pairs between 1 to 255 characters in length for tagging and categorizing the cluster. Passing this flag replaces preexisting data.

Mutually exclusive with --file.

--tier
string
false

Tier for each data-bearing server in the cluster. To learn more about cluster tiers, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/cluster-tier-atlas.

Mutually exclusive with --file.

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.

Upgrading cluster '<Name>'.
# Upgrade the tier, disk size, and MongoDB version for the shared cluster named myCluster in the project with the ID 5e2211c17a3e5a48f5497de3:
atlas cluster upgrade myCluster --projectId 5e2211c17a3e5a48f5497de3 --tier M50 --diskSizeGB 20 --mdbVersion 7.0 --tag env=dev
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