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pydo.databases.get_cluster()

Generated on 7 Jul 2026 from pydo version v0.39.0

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Usage

client.databases.get_cluster(
    database_cluster_uuid="9cc10173-e9ea-4176-9dbc-a4cee4c4ff30",
)

Returns JSONRaises HttpResponseError

Description

To show information about an existing database cluster, send a GET request to /v2/databases/{database_cluster_uuid}.

The response will be a JSON object with a database key. This will be set to an object containing the standard database cluster attributes.

The embedded connection and private_connection objects will contain the information needed to access the database cluster. For multi-node clusters, the standby_connection and standby_private_connection objects contain the information needed to connect to the cluster’s standby node(s).

The embedded maintenance_window object will contain information about any scheduled maintenance for the database cluster.

Parameters

database_cluster_uuid string required: A unique identifier for a database cluster.

Request Sample

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import os
from pydo import Client

client = Client(token=os.environ.get("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN"))

get_resp = client.databases.get_cluster(database_cluster_uuid="a7a89a")

Response Example

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{
  "database": {
    "id": "9cc10173-e9ea-4176-9dbc-a4cee4c4ff30",
    "name": "backend",
    "engine": "pg",
    "version": "14",
    "semantic_version": "14.5",
    "connection": {
      "uri": "postgres://doadmin:wv78n3zpz42xezdk@backend-do-user-19081923-0.db.ondigitalocean.com:25060/defaultdb?sslmode=require",
      "database": "",
      "host": "backend-do-user-19081923-0.db.ondigitalocean.com",
      "port": 25060,
      "user": "doadmin",
      "password": "wv78n3zpz42xezdk",
      "ssl": true
    },
    "private_connection": {
      "uri": "postgres://doadmin:wv78n3zpz42xezdk@private-backend-do-user-19081923-0.db.ondigitalocean.com:25060/defaultdb?sslmode=require",
      "database": "",
      "host": "private-backend-do-user-19081923-0.db.ondigitalocean.com",
      "port": 25060,
      "user": "doadmin",
      "password": "wv78n3zpz42xezdk",
      "ssl": true
    },
    "standby_connection": {
      "uri": "postgres://doadmin:wv78n3zpz42xezdk@replica-backend-do-user-19081923-0.db.ondigitalocean.com:25060/defaultdb?sslmode=require",
      "database": "",
      "host": "replica-backend-do-user-19081923-0.db.ondigitalocean.com",
      "port": 25060,
      "user": "doadmin",
      "password": "wv78n3zpz42xezdk",
      "ssl": true
    },
    "standby_private_connection": {
      "uri": "postgres://doadmin:wv78n3zpz42xezdk@private-replica-backend-do-user-19081923-0.db.ondigitalocean.com:25060/defaultdb?sslmode=require",
      "database": "",
      "host": "private-replica-backend-do-user-19081923-0.db.ondigitalocean.com",
      "port": 25060,
      "user": "doadmin",
      "password": "wv78n3zpz42xezdk",
      "ssl": true
    },
    "users": [
      {
        "name": "doadmin",
        "role": "primary",
        "password": "wv78n3zpz42xezdk"
      }
    ],
    "db_names": [
      "defaultdb"
    ],
    "num_nodes": 2,
    "region": "nyc3",
    "status": "creating",
    "created_at": "2019-01-11T18:37:36Z",
    "maintenance_window": {
      "day": "saturday",
      "hour": "08:45:12",
      "pending": true,
      "description": [
        "Update TimescaleDB to version 1.2.1",
        "Upgrade to PostgreSQL 11.2 and 10.7 bugfix releases"
      ]
    },
    "size": "db-s-2vcpu-4gb",
    "tags": [
      "production"
    ],
    "private_network_uuid": "d455e75d-4858-4eec-8c95-da2f0a5f93a7",
    "version_end_of_life": "2023-11-09T00:00:00Z",
    "version_end_of_availability": "2023-05-09T00:00:00Z",
    "storage_size_mib": 61440,
    "do_settings": {
      "service_cnames": [
        "db.example.com",
        "database.myapp.io"
      ]
    }
  }
}

More Information

See /v2/databases/{database_cluster_uuid} in the API reference for additional detail on responses, headers, parameters, and more.