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sh.isBalancerRunning()

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sh.isBalancerRunning()

Returns a document describing the status of the balancer.

Important

mongosh Method

This page documents a mongosh method. This is not the documentation for database commands or language-specific drivers, such as Node.js.

For the database command, see the balancerStatus command.

For MongoDB API drivers, refer to the language-specific MongoDB driver documentation.

For the legacy mongo shell documentation, refer to the documentation for the corresponding MongoDB Server release:

mongo shell v4.4

The following is an example of a document returned by the command:

{
mode: 'full',
inBalancerRound: false,
numBalancerRounds: Long("1143"),
ok: 1,
'$clusterTime': {
clusterTime: Timestamp({ t: 1639753724, i: 3 }),
signature: {
hash: Binary(Buffer.from("0000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "hex"), 0),
keyId: Long("0")
}
},
operationTime: Timestamp({ t: 1639753724, i: 3 })
}
Field
Description
mode

String that specifies whether the balancer thread is running or stopped. Possible values are:

  • "full"
    Balancer thread is running but not necessarily in a balancing round.
  • "off"
    Balancer thread is stopped. Chunk balancing cannot occur in this mode.
inBalancerRound
Boolean that specifies if the balancer is currently in a balancing round.
numBalancerRounds
Number of balancer rounds which have occurred since the config servers were started. This value is reset to 0 when the config servers are restarted.
ok
$clusterTime
operationTime

Tip

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