Managing a sharded cluster

In order to properly manage a sharded cluster, you need to be able to monitor its status. You might also need to divide the data into zones, which can then be assigned to shards. You also have the ability to manually split chunks, adjust the chunk size, and handle backup and restore operations. Another topic of interest is managing the sharded cluster balancer, a process that ensures an even distribution of documents into chunks, and chunks into shards. The first topic we'll now examine is monitoring the sharded cluster status.