> ## Documentation Index > The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt > Use these files to discover more information as needed. # IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB Gen 1 MongoDB is a JSON document store with a rich query and aggregation framework. ## Get started - [IBM Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?format=markdown) - [What is MongoDB?](https://www.ibm.com/products/databases-for-mongodb) - [Getting started with Databases for MongoDB](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-getting-started-new&format=markdown) - [Plan overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-mongodb-plans&format=markdown) - Hosting models - [Hosting models overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-hosting-models&format=markdown) - [Hosting models transition timeline and transition placement](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-hosting-model-transition&format=markdown) - [Hosting models FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-hosting-models-faq&format=markdown) - [Hosting models pricing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-hosting-pricing&format=markdown) - [The Dashboard overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-dashboard-overview&format=markdown) - [Performance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-performance&format=markdown) - [Pricing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-pricing&format=markdown) - [Release notes](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-mongodb-relnotes&format=markdown) - [Gen 2 docs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb-gen2?format=markdown) ## Tutorials - [Deploying and connecting a Cloud Databases instance ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-create-instance-tutorial&format=markdown) - [Connect a Cloud Databases deployment to an IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service application](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-tutorial-k8s-app&format=markdown) - [Setting up disk alerts for disk utilization](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-disk-util-alert-tutorial&format=markdown) - [Explore the geospatial search capabilities of Databases for MongoDB](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-mongodb-geo-queries&format=markdown) - [Explore time series collections in Databases for MongoDB ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-mongodb-timeseries&format=markdown) ## How to - [Provisioning](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-provisioning&format=markdown) - [Managing users and roles](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-user-management&format=markdown) - [Upgrading to a new major version](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-upgrading&format=markdown) - [Getting connection strings](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-connection-strings&format=markdown) - [Migrating resources to a different data center](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-migrate-data-center&format=markdown) - [Understanding high availability for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-ha-dr&format=markdown) - MongoDB Enterprise Edition - [MongoDB Enterprise audit logging](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-auditlogging&format=markdown) - [Databases for MongoDB Enterprise Ops Manager](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-ops-manager&format=markdown) - [Point-in-time recovery (PITR)](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-pitr&format=markdown) - [MongoDB Enterprise Edition Sharding](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-enterprise-sharding&format=markdown) - [Provisioning with MongoDB EE Sharding](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-enterprise-sharding-provisioning&format=markdown) - [Scaling with MongoDB EE sharding](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-enterprise-sharding-scaling&format=markdown) - Connecting to Databases for MongoDB - [Connecting an external application](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-mongodb-external-app&format=markdown) - [Connecting an IBM Cloud application](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-mongodb-connecting-ibmcloud-app&format=markdown) - [Connecting with the MongoDB Shell](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-connecting-cli-client&format=markdown) - [Connect with MongoDB Compass](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-connecting-mongodb-compass&format=markdown) - Managing resources - [Scaling disk, memory, and CPU](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-resources-scaling&format=markdown) - [Autoscaling](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-autoscaling&format=markdown) - [Managing connections](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-managing-connections&format=markdown) - [Managing Cloud Databases backups](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-dashboard-backups&format=markdown) - Observability - [Set up logging and monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-getting-started-cdb-logging-monitoring&format=markdown) - [Logging for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-logging&format=markdown) - [Monitoring integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-monitoring&format=markdown) - [Activity tracking events for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-at_events&format=markdown) - Enhancing security - [Managing security and compliance with Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-manage-security-compliance&format=markdown) - [Security and compliance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-security-compliance&format=markdown) - [Context-based restrictions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-cbr&format=markdown) - [Example context-based restrictions scenarios](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-cbr-tutorial&format=markdown) - [Allowlisting](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-allowlisting&format=markdown) - [Service endpoints integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-service-endpoints&format=markdown) - [Virtual Private Endpoints ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-vpes&format=markdown) - [Identity and Access Management integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-iam&format=markdown) - [Key Protect integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-key-protect&format=markdown) - [Hyper Protect Crypto Services integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-hpcs&format=markdown) - [Deleting your deployment and removing your data](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-deprovisioning&format=markdown) ## Reference - [Cloud Databases through the CLI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-icd-cli&format=markdown) - [Cloud Databases API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/cloud-databases-api) - [Versioning policy](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-versioning-policy&format=markdown) - [Getting to production for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-getting-to-production&format=markdown) - [Shared responsibilities for Cloud Databases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-responsibilities-cloud-databases&format=markdown) - [Understanding high availability and disaster recovery](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-mongodb-ha-dr&format=markdown) - [Data portability](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-data-portability&format=markdown) ## Help - Troubleshooting - [Troubleshooting performance for Databases for MongoDB](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-troubleshooting-performance&format=markdown) - [IBM Cloud specific tools and diagnostic commands for troubleshooting performance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-features-tools&format=markdown) - [Best practices for performance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-best-practices&format=markdown) - [IBM Cloud Support integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-support-integration&format=markdown) - [Why can’t I connect to my MongoDB deployment?](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-troubleshoot-connect&format=markdown) - [How can I measure a deployment's workload?](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-troubleshoot-workload&format=markdown) - [Why did Terraform replace my instance?](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-troubleshoot-terraform&format=markdown) - FAQs - [IBM Cloud® platform and service FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-ibm-cloud-status&format=markdown) - [IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB service FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-faq-mongodb-service&format=markdown) - [Resource configuration FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-faq-resource-config&format=markdown) - [Availability zones FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-faq-availability-zones&format=markdown) - [MongoDB operations log (oplog) FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-mongodb-faq-oplog&format=markdown) - [Certificates FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-mongodb?topic=databases-for-mongodb-faq-cert&format=markdown)