Aiven Command-line interface tips and tricks

Using Aiven's command-line interface (CLI) to manage authentication, projects, clouds, services, service logs, regions and plans.

Written by John
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Service plan levels and custom plans

Written by Oskari
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Renaming a service

What can be done if you need to rename your service?

Written by Olli
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Service termination protection

Protecting services against accidental termination and power off

Written by Mika
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How does the service plan affect service availability?

Written by Mika
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How long are my backups stored for?

Data retention times, PostgreSQL Point-in-time-recovery history length

Written by Mika
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Getting Aiven service logs into Sumo Logic

Sending Aiven service logs via rsyslog to Sumo Logic

Written by John
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I'd like to automate something using Aiven, is there an API for this?

Written by Mika
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Aiven Terraform integration

How to manage your Aiven infrastructure using Terraform

Written by Rauli
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Viewing service logs

Accessing logs from Aiven service: PostgreSQL, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, InfluxDB

Written by Olli
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Getting started with Service Integrations

Using InfluxDB or PostgreSQL with Grafana to get advanced Kafka and PostgreSQL telemetry dashboards

Written by Mika
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Getting started with Datadog

Sending metrics from your Aiven services to Datadog

Written by Mika
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Using Aiven with Prometheus

How to set up metrics delivery from Aiven services to Prometheus

Written by Rauli
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Accessing JMX metrics via Jolokia

Monitor your services by accessing Java Management Extensions via a REST interface with Jolokia integration

Written by Heikki
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Remote syslog integration

Sending service logs to Loggly, Papertrail and other remote syslog services

Written by Marko
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External Elasticsearch log integration

Sending service logs to external Elasticsearch

Written by Marko
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How much downtime do maintenance operations cause?

Written by Mika
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How do you apply software updates and security patches?

Automatic maintenance upgrade schedule and service maintenance time windows

Written by Mika
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Are you guys in charge of optimization of the service's parameters? For example "shared buffers" and "work_mem" in case of PostgreSQL.

Written by Mika
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Can we install additional software on the VM (Java)?

Written by Mika
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Do we have access to the Virtual Machine?

Written by Mika
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I have problems resolving the DNS name of my service

Written by Mika
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