Introducing MongoDB Atlas Sharding Advisor: Know When and How to Scale Sharded Clusters
MongoDB, Monday, November 2nd, 2026
MongoDB launches Atlas Sharding Advisor, combining sharding insights, recommendations and shard key analysis for Atlas sharded clusters.
MongoDB announced Atlas Sharding Advisor, available for dedicated Atlas deployments running MongoDB 8.0 or later, to help teams understand sharded cluster health and decide when and how to scale.
It brings together three capabilities: Sharding Insights, Sharding Recommendations and Shard Key Analyzer.
Sharding Insights combines shard-level, collection-level and mongos router metrics in a single view so teams can find where performance or data distribution issues originate.
It uses Atlas's existing metrics infrastructure, so no additional agents or telemetry pipelines are required.