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
Updated over a week ago

Service plan levels and custom plans

Written by Oskari
Updated over a week ago

Renaming a service

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

Written by Olli
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

Getting Aiven service logs into Sumo Logic

Sending Aiven service logs via rsyslog to Sumo Logic

Written by John
Updated over a week ago

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
Updated over a week ago

Viewing service logs

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

Written by Olli
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

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

Remote syslog integration

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

Written by Marko
Updated over a week ago

External Elasticsearch log integration

Sending service logs to an external Elasticsearch cluster

Written by Marko
Updated this week

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