balancerStatus
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Definition
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balancerStatus
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New in version 3.4.
Returns a document that contains information about the status of the balancer.
You can only issue the
balancerStatus
against theadmin
database.The command takes the following form:
Output Document
The following is an example of a document returned by the command:
Field | Description |
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"mode" |
A string that specifies whether the balancer thread is running or stopped. Possible values are:
|
"inBalancerRound" |
A boolean that specifies if the balancer is currently in a balancing round; i.e. distributing chunks. |
"numBalancerRounds" |
The number of balancer rounds which have occurred since the config servers were started. This value is not persisted and is reset to 0 upon restart of the config servers. |
Example
Connect to a mongos
instance and issue the following command: