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In this article:

  • Before deleting a cluster
  • Deleting a cluster
  1. Step-by-step guides
  2. Clusters
  3. Deleting a cluster

Deleting a MongoDB cluster

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Updated at May 5, 2025
  • Before deleting a cluster
  • Deleting a cluster

Before deleting a clusterBefore deleting a cluster

  • Disable deletion protection for the cluster if it is enabled.

  • Save the cluster ID.

    You will need the cluster ID when restoring a deleted cluster from a backup.

    After you delete a database cluster, its backups will be kept for seven days for recovery purposes.

Deleting a clusterDeleting a cluster

Management console
CLI
Terraform
REST API
gRPC API
  1. Open the folder page in the management console.
  2. Select Managed Service for MongoDB.
  3. Click for the cluster and select Delete.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified when creating the CLI profile is used by default. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

To delete a cluster, run the command:

yc managed-mongodb cluster delete <cluster_name_or_ID>

You can request the cluster ID and name with the list of clusters in the folder.

With Terraform, you can quickly create a cloud infrastructure in Yandex Cloud and manage it using configuration files. These files store the infrastructure description written in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.

Terraform is distributed under the Business Source License. The Yandex Cloud provider for Terraform is distributed under the MPL-2.0 license.

For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform website or mirror website.

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure its Yandex Cloud provider.

To delete a cluster created using Terraform:

  1. In the command line, go to the folder that houses the current Terraform configuration file with an infrastructure plan.

  2. Delete the resources using this command:

    terraform destroy
    

    Alert

    Terraform will delete all the resources you created using it, such as clusters, networks, subnets, and VMs.

  3. Type yes and press Enter.

Timeouts

The Terraform provider sets the following timeouts for Managed Service for MongoDB cluster operations:

  • Creating a cluster, including by restoring one from a backup: 30 minutes.
  • Editing a cluster: 60 minutes.

Operations exceeding the set timeout are interrupted.

How do I change these limits?

Add the timeouts block to the cluster description, for example:

resource "yandex_mdb_mongodb_cluster" "<cluster_name>" {
  ...
  timeouts {
    create = "1h30m" # An hour and a half
    update = "2h"    # Two hours
  }
}
  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into the environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"
    
  2. Use the Cluster.Delete method and send the following request, e.g., via cURL:

    curl \
        --request DELETE \
        --header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
        --url 'https://mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net/managed-mongodb/v1/clusters/<cluster_ID>'
    

    You can request the cluster ID with the list of clusters in the folder.

  3. View the server response to make sure the request was successful.

  1. Get an IAM token for API authentication and put it into the environment variable:

    export IAM_TOKEN="<IAM_token>"
    
  2. Clone the cloudapi repository:

    cd ~/ && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/yandex-cloud/cloudapi
    

    Below, we assume the repository contents are stored in the ~/cloudapi/ directory.

  3. Use the ClusterService.Delete call and send the following request, e.g., via gRPCurl:

    grpcurl \
        -format json \
        -import-path ~/cloudapi/ \
        -import-path ~/cloudapi/third_party/googleapis/ \
        -proto ~/cloudapi/yandex/cloud/mdb/mongodb/v1/cluster_service.proto \
        -rpc-header "Authorization: Bearer $IAM_TOKEN" \
        -d '{
              "cluster_id": "<cluster_ID>"
            }' \
        mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net:443 \
        yandex.cloud.mdb.mongodb.v1.ClusterService.Delete
    

    You can request the cluster ID with the list of clusters in the folder.

  4. View the server response to make sure the request was successful.

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