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atlas clusters start

Start the specified paused MongoDB cluster.

To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account, a service account, or an API key with the Project Cluster Manager role. Atlas supports this command only for M10+ clusters.

Command Syntax
atlas clusters start <clusterName> [options]
Name
Type
Required
Description

clusterName

string

true

Name of the cluster to start.

Name
Type
Required
Description

--autoScalingMode

string

false

Mode in which the cluster scales. Valid values are clusterWideScaling or independentShardScaling. This value defaults to "clusterWideScaling".

-h, --help

false

help for start

-o, --output

string

false

Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. To see the full output, use the -o json option.

--projectId

string

false

Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable.

Name
Type
Required
Description

-P, --profile

string

false

Name of the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings.

If the command succeeds, the CLI returns output similar to the following sample. Values in brackets represent your values.

Starting cluster '<Name>'.
# Start a cluster named myCluster for the project with ID 5e2211c17a3e5a48f5497de3:
atlas clusters start myCluster --projectId 5e2211c17a3e5a48f5497de3 --output json