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You can now use the Data Explorer tool in the Azure portal to create an Azure Cosmos DB's API for MongoDB database and container.

  1. Select Data Explorer > New Container.

    The Add Container area is displayed on the far right, you may need to scroll right to see it.

    :::image type="content" source="./media/cosmos-db-create-collection/azure-cosmosdb-mongodb-data-explorer.png" alt-text="The Azure portal Data Explorer, Add Container pane":::

  2. In the Add container page, enter the settings for the new container.

    Setting Suggested value Description
    Database ID db Enter db as the name for the new database. Database names must contain from 1 through 255 characters, and they cannot contain /, \\, #, ?, or a trailing space. Check the Provision database throughput option, it allows you to share the throughput provisioned to the database across all the containers within the database. This option also helps with cost savings.
    Throughput 400 Leave the throughput at 400 request units per second (RU/s). If you want to reduce latency, you can scale up the throughput later. You can also choose Autoscale mode, which will give you a range of RU/s that will dynamically increase and decrease as needed.
    Collection ID coll Enter coll as the name for your new container. Container IDs have the same character requirements as database names.
    Storage capacity Fixed (10GB) Enter Fixed (10GB) for this application. If you select Unlimited, you will have to create a Shard Key, which all items inserted will require.
    Shard key /_id The sample described in this article does not use a Shard Key, so setting it to /_id will use the automatically generated ID field as the shard key. Learn more about sharding, also known as partitioning, in Partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB

    Select OK. The Data Explorer displays the new database and container.