Services

Having trouble creating or upgrading to a larger plan?

What to do when you are unable to create or upgrade to a larger plan

Written by Viet
Updated over a week ago

Configuring a custom domain

How to set up a custom domain for supported services

Written by Charlie
Updated over a week ago

Choosing a Time Series Database

Quick overview of our time series offerings, and how to choose which to use

Written by Lorna Mitchell
Updated over a week ago

Cross project fork

How to create forks of database service across projects.

Written by Ivan Osipov
Updated over a week ago

Renaming a project

How to rename a project?

Written by Viet
Updated over a week ago

How to create new project

How to create new project in Aiven console.

Written by Ivan Osipov
Updated over a week ago

Aiven custom plans

Custom plans for Aiven services

Written by Markus Koskinen
Updated over a week ago

Kafka Logs Integration

How to push service logs into another service

Written by Roope
Updated over a week ago

Reacting to high load

Options to consider when your service runs out of resources

Written by Charlie
Updated over a week ago

Preparing for high load

How to get ready when heavy traffic is expected

Written by Charlie
Updated over a week ago

Out of Memory Killer

The Out of Memory Killer is a process that runs on Linux systems when the system is critically low on memory.

Written by Leon
Updated over a week ago

Service plan levels and custom plans

Written by Oskari
Updated over a week ago

Service IP Address and DNS

Which IP Address will my service use?

Written by George
Updated over a week ago

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 Emma Paajanen
Updated over a week ago

EOL for major versions of Aiven Services

Written by Soumya
Updated over a week ago

Advanced Configuration in Aiven Console

how to use advanced settings in different services

Written by George
Updated over a week ago

Renaming a service

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

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

Service termination protection

Protecting services against accidental termination and power off

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

How does the service plan affect service availability?

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

How long are my backups stored for?

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

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

AWS CloudWatch Metrics integration

How to configure the service integration and filter metrics sent to AWS CloudWatch

Written by Panu Kalliokoski
Updated over a week ago

Extended Log Retention in Google Cloud Logging

Use Google Cloud Logging Buckets to Extend Retention of Infrastructure Logs

Written by David Esposito
Updated over a week ago

Getting Started with New Relic

Using Aiven's Prometheus Integration to Export Metrics into New Relic

Written by David Esposito
Updated over a week ago

Monitoring Prometheus metrics

Non service-specific metrics that may be worth monitoring

Written by Orange
Updated over a week ago

Sending service logs to Google Cloud Logging

Service integration for sending logs to Google Cloud Logging

Written by Teemu Harju
Updated over a week ago

Kafka Connect Terraform Integration

Written by George
Updated over a week ago

Sending service logs to AWS CloudWatch

Service integration for sending logs to AWS CloudWatch

Written by Teemu Harju
Updated over a week ago

Getting Aiven service logs into Sumo Logic

Sending Aiven service logs via rsyslog to Sumo Logic

Written by Emma Paajanen
Updated over a week ago

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

APIs and tooling for integrations and automation

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

Aiven Terraform integration

How to manage your Aiven infrastructure using Terraform

Written by Rauli
Updated over a week ago

Viewing service logs

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

Written by Mika
Updated this week

Getting started with Service Integrations

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

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

Getting started with Datadog

Sending metrics from your Aiven services to Datadog

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

Log integration with Papertrail

How to integrate syslog with Papertrail

Written by George
Updated over a week ago

Log integration with Loggly

How to integrate syslog with Loggly

Written by George
Updated over a week ago

Remote syslog integration

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

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

Log integration with Fluentd

How to integrate rsyslog with Fluentd

Written by George
Updated over a week ago

Using Aiven with Prometheus

How to set up metrics delivery from Aiven services to Prometheus

Written by Rauli
Updated over a week ago

Accessing JMX metrics via Jolokia

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

Written by Heikki
Updated over a week ago

External Elasticsearch log integration

Sending service logs to an external Elasticsearch cluster

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

Using JetBrains DataGrip

How to connect to Aiven services using JetBrains products

Written by Charlie
Updated over a week ago

Forking an Aiven Service

Lovers (or haters) of Git will already know the term but let's cover what happens when you Fork within Aiven

Written by Christopher Gwilliams
Updated over a week ago

Periodic cleanup of powered-off services

Delete services that are no longer needed.

Written by Soumya
Updated over a week ago

How much downtime do maintenance operations cause?

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

How do you apply software updates and security patches?

Automatic maintenance upgrade schedule and service maintenance time windows

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

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
Updated over a week ago

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

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

Do we have access to the Virtual Machine?

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

I have problems resolving the DNS name of my service

Written by Mika
Updated over a week ago

Technical Emails

How to keep your team up-to-date with your project services

Written by Charlie
Updated over a week ago