Sharded Cluster Administration

View Cluster Configuration

View status information about the cluster's databases, shards, and chunks.

Add Shards to a Cluster

Add a shard to add capacity to a sharded cluster.

Add a Member to a Shard

Add a member to a shard in a sharded cluster.

Remove Shards from a Sharded Cluster

Migrate a single shard's data and remove the shard.

Unshard a Collection

Manually unshard a sharded collection.

Clear jumbo Flag

Manually clear jumbo flag from a chunk.

Drop a Hashed Shard Key Index

Drop a Hashed Shard Key Index.

Config Shard

You can configure a config server to store both application data and the usual sharded cluster metadata.

Start a Sharded Cluster with a Config Shard

Start a Sharded Cluster with a Config Shard.