# Configure mongo atlas cluster for monitoring in pmm

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/configure-mongo-atlas-cluster-for-monitoring-in-pmm/18984>\
**Category:** PMM 2.x\
**Created:** [December 7, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/configure-mongo-atlas-cluster-for-monitoring-in-pmm/18984 "2022-12-07T14:09:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tanuj\_Bolisetty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/tanuj_bolisetty/32/4092_2.png) [@Tanuj\_Bolisetty](https://forums.percona.com/u/Tanuj_Bolisetty)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/configure-mongo-atlas-cluster-for-monitoring-in-pmm/18984/1 "2022-12-07T14:09:30Z")

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Currently we only see a option for configuring a mongo remote instance. do we have an option to configure mongo remote atlas cluster ?

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**Author:** ![Agustin\_G](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/agustin_g/32/14111_2.png) [@Agustin\_G](https://forums.percona.com/u/Agustin_G)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/configure-mongo-atlas-cluster-for-monitoring-in-pmm/18984/2 "2022-12-28T23:15:40Z")

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Hi Tanuj,

You should use a PMM client to connect to it. From the docs, you may need to use the following additional argument when adding it:

> **[Percona Monitoring and Management - MongoDB](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/setting-up/client/mongodb.html#on-the-command-line)**
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> How to set up PMM to monitor a MongoDB or Percona Server for MongoDB database instance.

> Atlas doesn’t support direct connections. When connecting to an Atlas instance, use the pmm-admin option --direct-connection=false. (Doing so will prevent replicaset status from working and the MongoDB Overview dashboard widget will show invalid values.)