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The MongoDB Atlas Command Line Interface, or Atlas CLI (mongodb-atlas-cli), allows you to create, manage, and automate operations related to your MongoDB Atlas deployment. This includes tasks like provisioning clusters, creating and deleting users, and controlling network access. You can also access related products like Atlas Search. With the Atlas CLI, you can quickly interact with MongoDB services from the command line for easier testing and scripting.


You can install the Atlas CLI via, Homebrew, Apt, Yum, or a binary download. Help us improve the MongoDB Atlas CLI by posting your ideas and suggestions for improvements.

To report bugs, please use our mongodbcli github issues.


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  1. New mongodb-atlas-auth Github Action to use OIDC flow for GitHub

    As discussed in MongoDB support case 01433340:

    When configuring GitHub Actions to manage control plane configurations in public cloud environments (e.g., GCP, Azure, AWS, et cetera), we set up OpenID Connect ("OIDC") to allow the GHA workflows the ability to authenticate with that cloud provider without needing to store credentials as long-lived GitHub secrets (i.e., API keys). Please update and merge to main an official atlas-github-action that allows the option to use of OAuth2 / OIDC (without requiring any API keys).

    12 votes
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  2. Update the atlas-github-action to support OAuth2

    This item updates the existing MongoDB Atlas Github Action to provide support for OAuth2 authentication flow.

    12 votes
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    planned  ·  AdminJonny (Admin, MongoDB) responded

    Thank you for voting on this request. Please note that the original request has been split into two components, and this request is now just to support OAuth2 flow. The work to provide this is planned, and we'll provide an update when available.

  3. Change timeZone for Atlas project via CLI or API

    It would be great if there will be the possibility to change timezone for a project via cli or API.

    e.g.
    curl --user "<PUBLIC_API_KEY>:<PRIVATE_API_KEY>" \
    --digest \
    --request PATCH "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/<GROUP_ID>" \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data '{
    "timezone": "Europe/Berlin"
    }'

    Thank you
    KR
    Norbert

    6 votes
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  4. add a command to list and check the invoices

    It would be great if there will be the possibility to get information about invoices with atlas-cli like via API.

    https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/reference/api/invoices/

    3 votes
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    under review  ·  Jakub responded

    Thank you for taking the time to raise the feedback. 


    We will look into when this can be implemented.

    In meantime, could you share a bit of context on how would you like to use it in the Atlas CLI?


    Thanks,

    Jakub

  5. Display List of Suggested Indexes to Drop via CLI

    Allow users to view the list of suggested indexes to drop via the CLI. Since this functionality is already available in the Atlas UI, it would be beneficial to extend it to the CLI as well. This would align with the existing feature that lists suggested indexes to be created, as documented here (https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/cli/current/command/atlas-performanceAdvisor-suggeste

    2 votes
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  6. Option To Return Errors As JSON

    Hi,

    When using the --output json I would expect the errors to be returned as JSON just like the success output. However, the output for errors seems to continue to be a flat string.

    It would be helpful from a scripting perspective to have the output as JSON when requested so we can include better logic in our scripts when errors occur. For example:

    {
    "code": "409",
    "message": "The cluster name already exists"
}

    Please let me know if you need more information about the request.

    Thanks,

    2 votes
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    under review  ·  Jakub responded

    Hi Nic,


    Thank you for taking the time to raise this request. We'll look into it and update this feedback when we decide to roadmap it for the near future.


    Thank you,

    Jakub

  7. add option to return output as a text instead of array

    when you call cli with -o json-path option you always recieve output as an array in brackets. it would be useful to add a key to return output as plain text, so it can used in scripts without further processing (the same way as aws cli does) :

    current state :

    export org_id=$(atlas organizations list -o json-path='$.results[?(@.name =="MyOrg")].id' )
    echo $org_id
    [5ccefa1079358eebfef9456e]

    suggested output 

    echo $org_id
5ccefa1079358eebfef9456e
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  8. list all Atlas Search indexes for a cluster

    The list Atlas Search indexes command,
    https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/cli/stable/command/atlas-clusters-search-indexes-list/

    ought to not require the collections and db parameters. It should list indexes for all for the cluster and for a database.

    2 votes
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  9. Profiler Filters

    It would be nice to be able to filter the content of the profiler in the Atlas GUI.
    The profiler has proved to be very useful and maybe it could be even better.

    Currently you can only filter by "Top namespace operations"; and it would be nice to also filter by:
    - readConcern: this is because the ones hitting a secondary node are usually not a concern to me. They tend to be ad hoc queries which do not always have a supporting index and that is ok.
    - Also, when Operation = command, it could actually be many things.…

    1 vote
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  10. Update Search Index by Name

    It's hard to find a document that clearly states a model to use when creating/updating a Search Index (after digging a little more I found an API documentation that helped me a little but I still had to rely on trial and error).

    Update and removal operations should be possible using only the name of the Search Index. This makes it difficult to implement a CI/CD pipeline with Atlas CLI.

    1 vote
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  11. Add SQL Schema Management to Atlas CLI for Data Federation

    Currently, the MongoDB Atlas CLI does not offer commands for managing SQL schemas directly. While the atlas dataFederation command set includes subcommands for managing Data Federation instances, there is no direct support for SQL schema management.

    It would be highly beneficial if the Atlas CLI included commands for SQL schema management, allowing users to manage their schemas directly through the command line. This would enhance productivity and streamline workflows, particularly for developers who prefer using the CLI for database management.

    1 vote
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  12. skip past MongoDB CLI version 1.31.1 for dependabot / renovate (current version 1.18.0)

    Currently the latest release for the cli is 1.18 i.e. mongodb/atlas:v1.18.0, but according to common versioning patterns mongodb/atlas:v1.31.0
    should have been created after the current version, so vulnerability management systems like renovate will falsely believe this to be the latest version.

    Could you release versions higher than 1.31.1 from now on?

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  13. Token retrival as a API / CLI / endpoint call

    When we try to authenticate using Atlas CLI or Administration API, We require to go to shell and need to give approval / confirmation / consent. Would be a great feature to get token as a response of API call / CLI request which will allow seamless integration between the client app and MongoDB Atlas. More use cases will be opened for SaaS, PaaS applications.

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  14. atlas clusters sampleData reload

    Hi Jakob/Guss/Colm,

    Any chance of adding a new command to sampleData - specifically:
    atlas clusters sampleData reload <cluster>

    The command would literally check if the cluster has the sampleData loaded but it would also check the counts and the hashes so that if there wasn't an exact match so the data in some or all of the collections had been changed, then the existing sample data would be dropped and reloaded?

    Thanks!
    Eoin

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  15. atlas clusters sampleData loaded command

    Hi Jakob/Guss/Colm,

    Any chance of adding a new command to sampleData - specifically:
    atlas clusters sampleData loaded <cluster>

    The command would literally check if the cluster has the sampleData present?
    I'd find that helpful in some of the lab scripts I'm writing as I'd avoid an unnecessary call to load the sampleData if it was already present. It throws a nasty looking red warning for learners when I do it by default to ensure the data is there.

    Thanks!
    Eoin

    1 vote
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  16. Add Multi-Factor Authentication settings to be managed via Atlas CLI

    At the moment, there is currently no method to manage or view Multi-Factor Authentication settings via the Atlas CLI.
    The alerts set in this moment to control MFA seem to be quite poor and it is not possible to get specific information about users.

    1 vote
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  17. alerts list should allow filtering by date and sort inversely by date

    The 'alert list' list all alerts since the beginning of time. We can list open alerts, but we can't practically list alerts that were generated recently without going through all alerts ever produced for a project. I'd like to see what alerts were produced and are open or produce recently but closed.

    Additionally, what is a "tracking" alert?

    1 vote
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  18. Allow for specifying config file path.

    Currently, the config for Atlas CLI lives in a specific directory defined by the tool: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/cli/stable/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings/#std-label-config-toml-location

    While the config can be both set by CLI and edited with atlas config edit command, both of those options are specific to the tool. As someone who uses multiple CLI tools, I prefer to have all my configs organized the way it works for me and not have to remember idiosyncratic configuration for one of the tools I'm using.

    1 vote
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    under review  ·  Jakub responded

    Thank you for filing another idea! We appreciate your feedback and contribution.

    We’ll investigate internally what would it take to deliver the right experience to users to allow setting the path to the configuration file.

    In meantime, could you please share what would be the best way to configure the path to config file within the Atlas CLI from your perspective?

    Keep the ideas coming!

    Jakub

  19. Ability to download/point to latest tool versions

    This is especially important for a headless environment. And can be applied to more than just the Atlas CLI and the MongoDb Shell

    This documentation tells you to manually construct the string: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/database-tools/installation/installation-linux/#installation

    It would be ideal to programmatically access the latest version, instead of having to manually build a download string and use that to access a static version.

    Other languages and tools have solved this problem. Could MongoDb do this, too?

    It looks like someone tried to do this for Windows: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/mongodb-shell#versionhistory

    But that doesn't look like an officially supported solution, It would be amazing if this existed,…

    1 vote
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    under review  ·  Jakub responded

    Thank you for taking the time to file this request. Your feedback helps us make the Atlas CLI a better place for you and other users. At the same time I’d like to apologise for the late reply.

    Programmatic usage of the Atlas CLI is an area we plan to improve and further simplify. We can see how having an ability to download always the latest version of the Atlas CLI can simplify some of the automated actions.

    As a next step we’ll look into some more details how this could be achieved.

    We’ll update this idea as soon as we have more details.

    In the meantime, could you share more details on what do you use this automation for?

    Keep the ideas coming!

    Jakub

  20. The "mongocli atlas clusters list" command ought to return hosts in an array

    The 'mongocli atlas metrics databases list' command expects a hostname argument. Currently, one has to parse out the hosts from the URI returned from the cluster list command. It would be easier if the cluster list command returned the hosts in a command along with the replica set status, so that one could easier script the descent from the cluster into cluster details and info.

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