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Connect to Your Online Archive

Important

Feature unavailable in Flex Clusters and Serverless Instances

Flex clusters and Serverless instances don't support this feature at this time. To learn more, see Atlas Flex Limitations and Serverless Instance Limitations.

You can connect to your Online Archive through the MongoDB Shell. You can get the connection string for your preferred method of connection from the Atlas UI.

The connection string determines which data you can access and query. You can access and query data:

  • In your online archive only.

  • In your online archive and Atlas cluster.

  • In your online archive through your federated database instance.

Note

Atlas doesn't support LDAP for your Online Archive connection.

Before you connect, you must configure the connection method for your online archive.

Configure Connection to Online Archive

You can set up a standard connection or private endpoint for connecting to your online archives. To set up the connection method:

1

In Atlas, go to the Clusters page for your project.

Warning

Navigation Improvements In Progress

We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

  3. If it's not already displayed, click Clusters in the sidebar.

    The Clusters page displays.

2

Go to the Online Archive page for your cluster.

  1. Click your cluster's name.

  2. Click the Online Archive tab.

    The Online Archive page displays.

3

Click the Connect button for the Online Archive to which you want to connect.

4

Configure your connection type. To configure the type of connection:

  1. Choose one of the following options:

    • Standard connection

    • Private endpoint

  2. Set up your type of connection. To set up, for:

    Click:

    • Add your current IP address to add your current IP address to the list of allowed IP addresses.

    • Add a different IP address to specify the IP address to add to the list of allowed IP addresses.

    • Allow access from anywhere to allow access from all IP addresses.

    Click Private endpoint and:

    Note

    If you specify 0.0.0.0 in the IP access list, Atlas accepts all connections including those over PrivateLink.

5

Create a database user for your online archive.

To create a database user for your online archive:

  1. Specify Username.

  2. Enter Password or click Autogenerate secure password.

  3. Click Create database uer.

6

Click Next to get the connection string for your online archive.

Connect to Online Archive

You can use the connection string for an online archive to access and query data in your online archive only.

Connect to Online Archive modal

To get the connection string from the Clusters page:

1

In Atlas, go to the Clusters page for your project.

Warning

Navigation Improvements In Progress

We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

  3. If it's not already displayed, click Clusters in the sidebar.

    The Clusters page displays.

2

Click the Connect button for the cluster.

3

Choose your connection method.

You can connect through a Driver, Compass, and the MongoDB Shell.

4

Select Connect to Online Archive to get the connection string for connecting to your Online Archive.

To get the connection string from the Online Archive page:

1

In Atlas, go to the Clusters page for your project.

Warning

Navigation Improvements In Progress

We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

  3. If it's not already displayed, click Clusters in the sidebar.

    The Clusters page displays.

2

Go to the Online Archive page for your cluster.

  1. Click your cluster's name.

  2. Click the Online Archive tab.

    The Online Archive page displays.

3

Click the Connect button for the Online Archive to which you want to connect.

4

Choose your connection method.

You can connect through a Driver, Compass, and the MongoDB Shell.

5

Select Connect to Online Archive to get the connection string for connecting to your Online Archive.

You can use this connection string to run read-only, federated queries against your Online Archive.

Connect to Online Archive and Cluster

You can use the connection string for an online archive and cluster to access and query data in your online archive and Atlas cluster.

Connect to Online Archive and Cluster modal

To get the connection string from the Clusters page:

1

In Atlas, go to the Clusters page for your project.

Warning

Navigation Improvements In Progress

We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

  3. If it's not already displayed, click Clusters in the sidebar.

    The Clusters page displays.

2

Click the Connect button for the cluster.

3

Choose your connection method.

You can connect through a Driver, Compass, and the MongoDB Shell.

4

Select Connect to Cluster and Online Archive to get the connection string for connecting to your cluster and Online Archive.

To get the connection string from the Online Archive page:

1

In Atlas, go to the Clusters page for your project.

Warning

Navigation Improvements In Progress

We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

  3. If it's not already displayed, click Clusters in the sidebar.

    The Clusters page displays.

2

Go to the Online Archive page for your cluster.

  1. Click your cluster's name.

  2. Click the Online Archive tab.

    The Online Archive page displays.

3

Click the Connect button for the Online Archive to which you want to connect.

4

Choose your connection method.

You can connect through a Driver, Compass, and the MongoDB Shell.

5

Select Connect to Cluster and Online Archive to get the connection string for connecting to both your cluster and Online Archive.

Connect to the Federated Database Instance for Your Online Archive

You can use the federated database instance connection string for your online archive to access and query data in your online archive only.

Connect to Federated Database Instance for Online Archive

To get the connection string from the Data Federation page:

1

In Atlas, go to your federated database instance for your project.

Warning

Navigation Improvements In Progress

We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.

  1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

  2. If it's not already displayed, select your project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

  3. In the sidebar, click Data Federation under the Services heading.

    The Data Federation page displays.

2

Click the Connect button for the Online Archive to which you want to connect.

3

Choose your connection method.

You can connect through a Driver, Compass, and the MongoDB Shell.

4

Follow the steps in the Connect window to get the connection string and run the connection string in your command line.

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