cleanupReshardCollection

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Definition

cleanupReshardCollection: New in version 5.0.
The cleanupReshardCollection command cleans up metadata of a failed resharding operation. You only need to run this command if a primary failover occurred while you ran a resharding operation.

This command is available in deployments hosted in the following environments:

This command is supported in all MongoDB Atlas clusters. For information on all commands, see Unsupported Commands.

MongoDB Enterprise: The subscription-based, self-managed version of MongoDB
MongoDB Community: The source-available, free-to-use, and self-managed version of MongoDB

The command has the following syntax:

db.adminCommand(
   {
     cleanupReshardCollection: "<database>.<collection>"
   }
)

The following example cleans up metadata of a failed resharding operation on the sales.orders collection:

db.adminCommand({
  cleanupReshardCollection: "sales.orders"
})