Start Percona Link for MongoDB¶ Start Percona Link for MongoDB. Using systemd Manually We recommend to use the packaged service scripts to run plm. $ sudo systemctl start plm Check the status with this command: $ sudo systemctl status plm You can start PLM manually. This option is the way you start Percona Link for MongoDB if you installed it from source code Run Percona Link for MongoDB with the following command if you haven’t defined MongoDB connection string URI before: $ nohup plm --source <source-mongodb-uri> --target <target-mongodb-uri> --no-color > percona-link-mongodb.log 2>&1 & Alternatively, you can use environment variables: $ export SOURCE_URI=<source-mongodb-uri> $ export TARGET_URI=<target-mongodb-uri> $ nohup plm --no-color > percona-link-mongodb.log 2>&1 & See Percona Link for MongoDB startup configuration for all available options. How to see Percona Link for MongoDB logs¶ With the packaged systemd service, the log output to stdout is captured by systemd’s default redirection to systemd-journald. You can view it with this command: $ sudo journalctl -u plm.service See man journalctl for useful options such as --lines, --follow, etc. If you started plm manually, see the file you redirected stdout and stderr to. Next steps¶ Congratulations! you have successfully installed and connected PLM to your source and target MongoDB. Now you have it up and running and you are ready to use it. Use Percona Link for MongoDB Last update: December 23, 2025 Created: December 23, 2025 Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Thanks for your feedback! Want to improve this page? Click Edit this page on GitHub above to submit a pull request..