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Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {GROUP-ID} is the same as your project id. For existing groups, your group/project id remains the same. This page uses the more familiar term group when referring to descriptions. The endpoint remains as stated in the document.

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0

Important

To create a project, you must authenticate as a Cloud Manager user. If you attempt to create a project using API Key credentials instead of Cloud Manager user credentials, Cloud Manager returns the API_KEY_CANNOT_CREATE_GROUP error.

Resource

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POST /groups

Request Parameters

Request Path Parameters

This endpoint does not use HTTP request path parameters.

Request Query Parameters

This endpoint may use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Cloud Manager API resources. These are all optional.

Name Type Description Default
pretty boolean Indicates whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format. false
envelope boolean

Indicates whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.

Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

status
HTTP response code
envelope
The expected response body
 false

Request Body Parameters

Name Type Description
name string Required. The display name for the project.
orgId string

Optional. The unique identifier for the organization in which to create the group. You can find the orgId of an existing organization by logging into the Cloud Manager UI.

If orgId is unspecified, Cloud Manager creates a new organization with the same name as the new project.

To create a project within an existing organization, you must have either Organization Project Creator role or Organization Owner role for the organization.

Response

Name Type Description
activeAgentCount number

Number of active agents of any type (Monitoring, Backup, Automation) sending regular pings to Cloud Manager.

The value is refreshed about every 24 hours and cached. If you start a new agent or stop an existing one, the change can take up to 30 minutes to show up in the activeAgentCount field.
agentApiKey string

Agent API key for the group.

You must have the Owner access for the group.
hostCounts object Total number of hosts by type. The embedded fields should be self-explanatory.
id string Unique identifier for the group.
lastActiveAgent date Time Cloud Manager last updated the activeAgentCount total for the group. Cloud Manager refreshes this value every 24 hours and caches it to record the number of active agents of any type (Monitoring, Backup, Automation).
links object array One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources. The relations between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification
name string Display name for the group.
orgId string Unique identifier for the organization to which the group/project belongs.
publicApiEnabled boolean Indicator that the Public API is enabled for this group. This is a read-only field that is always true.
replicaSetCount number Total number of replica sets for this group.
shardCount number Total number of shards for this group.

Example Request

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curl --user "{username}:{apiKey}" --digest \
 --header "Accept: application/json" \
 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
 --include \
 --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0/groups?pretty=true" \
 --data '
   {
     "name": "Create Group API Example"
   }'

Example Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}

Response Body

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{
  "activeAgentCount" : 0,
  "agentApiKey" : "{GROUP-API-KEY}",
  "hostCounts" : {
    "arbiter" : 0,
    "config" : 0,
    "master" : 0,
    "mongos" : 0,
    "primary" : 0,
    "secondary" : 0,
    "slave" : 0
  },
  "id" : "{GROUP-ID}",
  "links" : [],
  "name" : "Create Group API Example",
  "orgId" : "{ORG-ID}",
  "publicApiEnabled" : true,
  "replicaSetCount" : 0,
  "shardCount" : 0,
  "tags" : [ ]
}

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