Interact with Your Data
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You can use the Ops Manager UI to interact with data in the following ways:
View databases, collections, and indexes in your cluster.
Create and drop databases, collections, and indexes.
Insert/edit/delete documents.
Create and run aggregation pipelines to process your data.
Ops Manager UI Read Behavior
The Ops Manager UI reads from the primary unless the primary is unavailable. If the primary is unavailable, the Ops Manager UI reads from a non-hidden, non-delayed secondary member.
The Ops Manager UI uses the Automation to retrieve all data. No Ops Manager configuration changes are required to access data in the Ops Manager UI.
Disable Ops Manager UI Data Interaction
To interact with your data in the Ops Manager UI, you have the Data Explorer setting enabled. The Data Explorer setting is enabled by default.
Important
Required Privileges
To enable or disable the Data Explorer setting for a
project, you must have the Project Owner role for the
project or the Organization Owner role on its parent
organization.
To disable the Data Explorer setting:
Note
To enable the Data Explorer setting, set the toggle to On.
Interact with Data in the Ops Manager UI
Note
To interact with your data in the Ops Manager UI, you must have one of the following roles:
To interact with data in the Ops Manager UI:
Click Deployment in the left navigation.
Select the desired MongoDB deployment.
Select the Data tab.
From the Data tab, you can view a list of databases in the left panel. You can also view the following information about your deployment in the top right corner of your display:
Data Size: The total byte size of your document data stored across all databases, including system databases.
Status: A bell icon that displays deployment alerts and a backup icon that displays the status of recent backup tasks.
Manage Your Data in the Ops Manager UI
The following pages show how you can use the Ops Manager UI to manage your databases, collections, indexes, documents, and data within documents: