shardingState

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Syntax
Behavior

shardingState: shardingState is an admin command that reports if mongod is a member of a sharded cluster. To run the command, you must run against the admin database. See db.adminCommand().

Compatibility

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

MongoDB Atlas: The fully managed service for MongoDB deployments in the cloud

Note

This command is supported in all MongoDB Atlas clusters. For information on Atlas support for 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

Syntax

The command has the following syntax:

{ shardingState: 1 }

To run the command, you must run against the admin database. See db.adminCommand().

Behavior

For shardingState to detect that a mongod is a member of a sharded cluster, the mongod must satisfy the following conditions:

the mongod is a primary member of a replica set, and
the mongod instance is a member of a sharded cluster.

If shardingState detects that a mongod is a member of a sharded cluster, shardingState returns a document that resembles the following prototype:

{
  "enabled" : true,
  "configServer" : "<configdb-string>",
  "shardName" : "<string>",
  "shardHost" : "string:",
  "versions" : {
       "<database>.<collection>" : Timestamp(<...>),
       "<database>.<collection>" : Timestamp(<...>)
  },
  "ok" : 1,
  "$clusterTime" : {
     "clusterTime" : Timestamp(1510716515, 1),
     "signature" : {
        "hash" : BinData(0,"B2ViX7XLzFLS5Fl9XEuFXbwKIM4="),
        "keyId" : NumberLong("6488045157173166092")
     }
  },
  "operationTime" : Timestamp(1510716515, 1)
}

Otherwise, shardingState will return the following document:

{
  "enabled" : false,
  "ok" : 1,
  "$clusterTime" : {
     "clusterTime" : Timestamp(1510716515, 1),
     "signature" : {
        "hash" : BinData(0,"B2ViX7XLzFLS5Fl9XEuFXbwKIM4="),
        "keyId" : NumberLong("6488045157173166092")
     }
  },
  "operationTime" : Timestamp(1510716515, 1)
}

The response from shardingState when used with a config server is:

{
   "enabled" : false,
   "ok" : 1,
   "operationTime" : Timestamp(1510767613, 1),
   "$gleStats" : {
      "lastOpTime" : Timestamp(0, 0),
      "electionId" : ObjectId("7fffffff0000000000000001")
   },
   "$clusterTime" : {
      "clusterTime" : Timestamp(1510767613, 1),
      "signature" : {
         "hash" : BinData(0,"IwBZ4SZjIMI5NdM62NObV/R31GM="),
         "keyId" : NumberLong("6488693018630029321")
      }
   }
}

Note

mongos instances do not provide the shardingState.

Warning

This command obtains a write lock on the affected database and will block other operations until it has completed; however, the operation is typically short lived.

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