sh.isBalancerRunning()

Definition

sh.isBalancerRunning()

Returns a document describing the status of the balancer.

Important

mongosh Method

This page documents a mongosh method. This is not the documentation for database commands or language-specific drivers, such as Node.js.

For the database command, see the balancerStatus command.

For MongoDB API drivers, refer to the language-specific MongoDB driver documentation.

For the legacy mongo shell documentation, refer to the documentation for the corresponding MongoDB Server release:

mongo shell v4.4

Output Document

The following is an example of a document returned by the command:

{
  mode: 'full',
  inBalancerRound: false,
  numBalancerRounds: Long("1143"),
  ok: 1,
  '$clusterTime': {
     clusterTime: Timestamp({ t: 1639753724, i: 3 }),
     signature: {
        hash: Binary(Buffer.from("0000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "hex"), 0),
        keyId: Long("0")
     }
  },
  operationTime: Timestamp({ t: 1639753724, i: 3 })
}