Interact with Your Data
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- OAuth 2.0 authentication for programmatic access to Cloud Manager is available as a Preview feature.
- The feature and the corresponding documentation might change at any time during the Preview period. To use OAuth 2.0 authentication, create a service account to use in your requests to the Cloud Manager Public API.
You can use the Cloud Manager UI to interact with data in the following ways:
View databases, collections, and indexes in your cluster.
Create and drop databases, collections, and indexes.
Insert/edit/delete documents.
Create and run aggregation pipelines to process your data.
Cloud Manager UI Read Behavior
The Cloud Manager UI reads from the primary unless the primary is unavailable. If the primary is unavailable, the Cloud Manager UI reads from a non-hidden, non-delayed secondary member.
The Cloud Manager UI uses the Automation to retrieve all data. No Cloud Manager configuration changes are required to access data in the Cloud Manager UI.
Disable Cloud Manager UI Data Interaction
To interact with your data in the Cloud Manager UI, you have the Data Explorer setting enabled. The Data Explorer setting is enabled by default.
Important
Required Privileges
To enable or disable the Data Explorer setting for a
project, you must have the Project Owner role for the
project or the Organization Owner role on its parent
organization.
To disable the Data Explorer setting:
In MongoDB Cloud Manager, go to the Project Settings page.
If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Next to the Projects menu, expand the Options menu, then click Project Settings.
The Project Settings page displays.
Note
To enable the Data Explorer setting, set the toggle to On.
Interact with Data in the Cloud Manager UI
Note
To interact with your data in the Cloud Manager UI, you must have one of the following roles:
You can't interact with your data in the MongoDB Cloud Manager UI with trial versions of MongoDB Cloud Manager after the initial 30 day trial period.
To interact with your data in the Cloud Manager UI:
In MongoDB Cloud Manager, go to the Deployment page for your project.
If it is not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
If the Deployment page is not already displayed, click Deployment in the sidebar.
The Deployment page displays.
Manage Your Data in the Cloud Manager UI
The following pages show how you can use the Cloud Manager UI to manage your databases, collections, indexes, documents, and data within documents: