Remove One Cluster from One Project
Removes one cluster from the specified project. The cluster must have termination protection disabled in order to be deleted. To use this resource, the requesting Service Account or API Key must have the Project Owner role. This feature is not available for serverless clusters.
This endpoint can also be used on Flex clusters that were created using the createCluster endpoint or former M2/M5 clusters that have been migrated to Flex clusters until January 2026. Please use the deleteFlexCluster endpoint for Flex clusters instead. Deprecated versions: v2-{2023-01-01}
Path parameters
-
Unique 24-hexadecimal digit string that identifies your project. Use the /groups endpoint to retrieve all projects to which the authenticated user has access.
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. The resource and corresponding endpoints use the term groups.
Format should match the following pattern:
^([a-f0-9]{24})$. -
Human-readable label that identifies the cluster.
Format should match the following pattern:
^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]*$.
Query parameters
-
Flag that indicates whether Application wraps the response in an
envelopeJSON object. Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query. Endpoints that return a list of results use the results object as an envelope. Application adds the status parameter to the response body.Default value is
false. -
Flag that indicates whether the response body should be in the prettyprint format.
Default value is
false.Prettyprint -
Flag that indicates whether to retain backup snapshots for the deleted dedicated cluster.
atlas api deleteCluster --helpimport (
"os"
"context"
"log"
sdk "go.mongodb.org/atlas-sdk/v20250312001/admin"
)
func main() {
ctx := context.Background()
clientID := os.Getenv("MONGODB_ATLAS_CLIENT_ID")
clientSecret := os.Getenv("MONGODB_ATLAS_CLIENT_SECRET")
client, err := sdk.NewClient(
sdk.UseOAuthAuth(clientID, clientSecret),
sdk.UseBaseURL(url))
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Error: %v", err)
}
params = &sdk.DeleteClusterApiParams{}
httpResp, err := client.ClustersApi.
DeleteClusterWithParams(ctx, params).
Execute()
}curl --header "Authorization: Bearer ${ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
--header "Accept: application/vnd.atlas.2025-03-12+json" \
-X DELETE "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v2/groups/{groupId}/clusters/{clusterName}"curl --user "${PUBLIC_KEY}:${PRIVATE_KEY}" \
--digest \
--header "Accept: application/vnd.atlas.2025-03-12+json" \
-X DELETE "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v2/groups/{groupId}/clusters/{clusterName}"{
"error": 400,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint) No provider AWS exists.",
"reason": "Bad Request",
"errorCode": "VALIDATION_ERROR"
}{
"error": 401,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint)",
"reason": "Unauthorized",
"errorCode": "NOT_ORG_GROUP_CREATOR"
}{
"error": 403,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint)",
"reason": "Forbidden",
"errorCode": "CANNOT_CHANGE_GROUP_NAME"
}{
"error": 404,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint) Cannot find resource AWS",
"reason": "Not Found",
"errorCode": "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND"
}{
"error": 409,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint) Cannot delete organization link while there is active migration in following project ids: 60c4fd418ebe251047c50554",
"reason": "Conflict",
"errorCode": "CANNOT_DELETE_ORG_ACTIVE_LIVE_MIGRATION_ATLAS_ORG_LINK"
}{
"error": 500,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint)",
"reason": "Internal Server Error",
"errorCode": "UNEXPECTED_ERROR"
}