Starting and Stopping MongoDB is covered in the MongoDB manual. It explains the various options of stopping MongoDB through the shell, cli, drivers etc. It also details the risks of incorrectly stopping MongoDB (such as data corruption) and talks about the different kill signals.
Additionally, if you have installed MongoDB using a package manager for Ubuntu or Debian then you can stop mongodb (currently mongod in ubuntu) as follows:
Upstart: sudo service mongod stop
Sysvinit: sudo /etc/init.d/mongod stop
Or on Mac OS X
Find PID of mongod process using $ top
Kill the process by $ kill <PID> (the Mongo docs have more info on this)
Or on Red Hat based systems:
service mongod stopOr on Windows if you have installed as a service named MongoDB:
net stop MongoDBAnd if not installed as a service (as of Windows 7+) you can run:
taskkill /f /im mongod.exeTo learn more about the problems of an unclean shutdown, how to best avoid such a scenario and what to do in the event of an unclean shutdown, please see: Recover Data after an Unexpected Shutdown.
mongod --dbpath /path/to/your/db --shutdown
More info at official: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/manage-mongodb-processes/
If the server is running as the foreground process in a terminal, this can be done by pressing
Ctrl-C
Another way to cleanly shut down a running server is to use the shutdown command,
> use admin
> db.shutdownServer();
Otherwise, a command like kill can be used to send the signal. If mongod has 10014 as its PID, the command would be
kill -2 10014
I followed the official MongoDB documentation for stopping with signals. One of the following commands can be used (PID represents the Process ID of the mongod process):
kill PID
which sends signal 15 (SIGTERM), or
kill -2 PID
which sends signal 2 (SIGINT).
Warning from MongoDB documentation:
Never usekill -9(i.e. SIGKILL) to terminate amongodinstance.
If you have more than one instance running or you don't care about the PID, you could use pkill to send the signal to all running mongod processes:
pkill mongod
or
pkill -2 mongod
or, much more safer, only to the processes belonging to you:
pkill -U $USER mongod
or
pkill -2 -U $USER mongod
NOTE:
If the DB is running as another user, but you have administrative rights, you have invoke the above commands with sudo, in order to run them. E.g.:
sudo pkill mongod
sudo pkill -2 mongod
PS
Note: I resorted to this option, because mongod --shutdown, although mentioned in the current MongoDB documentation, curiously doesn't work on my machine (macOS, mongodb v3.4.10, installed with homebrew):Error parsing command line: unrecognised option '--shutdown'
PPS
(macOS specific) Before anyone wonders: no, I could not stop it with commandbrew services stop mongodb
because I did not start it withbrew services start mongodb.
I had started mongod with a custom command line :-)
My special case is:
previously start mongod by:
sudo -u mongod mongod -f /etc/mongod.conf
now, want to stop mongod.
and refer official doc Stop mongod Processes, has tried:
(1) shutdownServer but failed:
> use admin
switched to db admin
> db.shutdownServer()
2019-03-06T14:13:15.334+0800 E QUERY [thread1] Error: shutdownServer failed: {
"ok" : 0,
"errmsg" : "shutdown must run from localhost when running db without auth",
"code" : 13
} :
_getErrorWithCode@src/mongo/shell/utils.js:25:13
DB.prototype.shutdownServer@src/mongo/shell/db.js:302:1
@(shell):1:1
(2) --shutdown still failed:
# mongod --shutdown
There doesn't seem to be a server running with dbpath: /data/db
(3) previous start command adding --shutdown:
sudo -u mongod mongod -f /etc/mongod.conf --shutdown
killing process with pid: 30213
failed to kill process: errno:1 Operation not permitted
(4) use service to stop:
service mongod stop
and
service mongod status
show expected Active: inactive (dead) but mongod actually still running, for can see process from ps:
# ps -edaf | grep mongo | grep -v grep
root 30213 1 0 Feb04 ? 03:33:22 mongod --port PORT --dbpath=/var/lib/mongo
and finally, really stop mongod by:
# sudo mongod -f /etc/mongod.conf --shutdown
killing process with pid: 30213
until now, root cause: still unknown ...
hope above solution is useful for your.
Building on the answer from stennie:
mongo --eval "db.getSiblingDB('admin').shutdownServer();quit()"
I found that mongo was trying to reconnect to the db after the server shut down, which would cause a delay and error messages. Adding quit() after shutdown speeds it up and reduces the messages, but there is still one.
I also want to add context - I'm starting and stopping mongod as part of test cases for other code, so registering as a service does not fit the use case. I am hoping to end up with something that runs on all platforms (this tested in windows right now). I'm using mongod 3.6.9
I use this startup script on Ubuntu.
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: mongodb
# Required-Sart:
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: mongodb
# Description: mongo db server
### END INIT INFO
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
PROGRAM=/opt/mongo/bin/mongod
MONGOPID=`ps -ef | grep 'mongod' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
test -x $PROGRAM || exit 0
case "$1" in
start)
log_begin_msg "Starting MongoDB server"
ulimit -v unlimited.
ulimit -n 100000
/opt/mongo/bin/mongod --fork --quiet --dbpath /data/db --bind_ip 127.0.0.1 --rest --config /etc/mongod.conf.
log_end_msg 0
;;
stop)
log_begin_msg "Stopping MongoDB server"
if [ ! -z "$MONGOPID" ]; then
kill -15 $MONGOPID
fi
log_end_msg 0
;;
status)
;;
*)
log_success_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/mongodb {start|stop|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
In PowerShell, it's: Stop-Service MongoDB
Then to start it again: Start-Service MongoDB
To verify whether it's started, run: net start | findstr MongoDB.
Note: Above assumes MongoDB is registered as a service.
Kindly take advantage of the Task Manager provided by your OS for a quick and easy solution. Below is the screengrab from/for Windows 10. Right-click on the highlighted process and select stop. Select start, if already stopped.
Please Note: Internally the commands are doing the same thing which you have to do manually using a GUI (Task Manager), provided by Windows/your OS. Though, this approach to be used for study/practice purpose to get started and you won't be blocked due to this.
