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Everything you do with a MongoDB cluster after it exists, ordered roughly as you meet it: activate the service, manage and operate clusters, protect them with backups, then tune resources, scaling, and monitoring. Monitoring is not self-service — it needs FPT Support to enable.

Manage databases4

Backup & Restore4

Upgrade database versionUpgrade a cluster to a higher MongoDB Enterprise patch version, and the precautions that make it safe.Manage database tagsAssign or remove tags on a MongoDB cluster to organize, filter, and account for database resources.Change database resource configurationView and adjust a cluster's compute, data disk, and storage policy within the available quota.Scale outAdd nodes to a Replica Set, or add mongos routers and shards to a Sharded Cluster, from the cluster's Overview tab.Monitor & alertWatch MongoDB cluster metrics and logs in Grafana, and get told by email or Telegram when a threshold is crossed.Change maintenance windowChoose when periodic maintenance runs on your cluster, view pending maintenance events, and understand what maintenance does.View Action LogsTrack what the platform did to a MongoDB cluster, with the outcome and the time each operation ran.ReportingBackup activity reports, exported on demand or delivered on a schedule.