# Determining a cluster's status
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You can determine a cluster's status using the Amazon Web Services Management Console or Amazon CLI.

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#### [ Using the Amazon Web Services Management Console ]

Use the following procedure to see the status of your Amazon DocumentDB cluster using the Amazon Web Services Management Console

1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console, and open the Amazon DocumentDB console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/docdb](https://console.amazonaws.cn/docdb).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Clusters**.

1. In the **Cluster identifier** column, find the name of the cluster that you are interested in. Then, to find the status of the cluster, read across that row to the **Status** column, as shown below.  
![Screenshot of clusters page with sample-cluster showing active status.](http://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/documentdb/latest/developerguide/images/db-cluster-status-con.png)

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#### [ Using the Amazon CLI ]

Use the `describe-db-clusters` operation to see the the status of your Amazon DocumentDB cluster using the Amazon CLI. 

The following code finds the status of the cluster `sample-cluster`.

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

```
aws docdb describe-db-clusters \
    --db-cluster-identifier sample-cluster  \
    --query 'DBClusters[*].[DBClusterIdentifier,Status]'
```

For Windows:

```
aws docdb describe-db-clusters ^
    --db-cluster-identifier sample-cluster  ^
    --query 'DBClusters[*].[DBClusterIdentifier,Status]'
```

Output from this operation looks something like the following (JSON format).

```
[
    [
        "sample-cluster",
        "available"
    ]
]
```

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