Pause, Resume, or Terminate a Cluster
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You can pause, resume, or terminate your clusters. For serverless instances, see Terminate a Serverless Instance.
Considerations for Paused Clusters
You can't:
Change the configuration of a paused cluster.
Read data from or write data to a paused cluster.
For paused clusters, Atlas:
Stops triggering configured alerts.
Stops all backups. Your existing snapshots remain until they expire.
Pause One Cluster
Important
Feature unavailable in Serverless Instances
Serverless instances don't support this feature at this time. To learn more, see Serverless Instance Limitations.
Depending on your cluster tier, Atlas either pauses clusters automatically or when you manually initiate it.
M10+ Clusters
You can pause M10 or larger clusters:
If they do not use NVMe storage.
For up to 30 days. If you don't resume the cluster within 30 days, Atlas resumes the cluster.
Atlas only charges paused clusters for storage. Atlas does not charge for any other services or data transfer on paused clusters.
M0 Clusters
Atlas automatically stops collecting monitoring information
for an M0 cluster after a few days of inactivity.
If there is no activity for 60 days, then Atlas automatically pauses the cluster completely, disallowing any connections to it until you resume the cluster. Atlas sends an email seven days before pausing the cluster. Atlas sends another email after pausing the cluster.
You can resume or terminate an automatically paused
cluster at any time. You can't initiate a pause for M0
clusters.
Resume One Cluster
Important
Feature unavailable in Serverless Instances
Serverless instances don't support this feature at this time. To learn more, see Serverless Instance Limitations.
To resume collection of monitoring information for an Atlas M0
cluster paused for monitoring, connect to that cluster using a
MongoDB Driver, mongosh, or
Data Explorer.
To resume an Atlas M0 cluster that Atlas paused due to
inactivity, or an Atlas M10+ cluster that you paused previously:
Note
If you don't resume an M10+ cluster within 30 days, Atlas
resumes the cluster.
Terminate One Cluster
To terminate an Atlas cluster:
Atlas terminates the cluster after completing any in-progress deployment changes.
Atlas bills for the hours that the cluster was active. To learn more about Atlas billing, see Manage Billing.
Warning
Terminating a cluster also deletes any backup snapshots for that cluster. See Snapshot Schedule.