Service management
Overview
Aiven manages a number of services. These services share similar good practices when it comes to managing them.
Understand the fundamentals:
Create and configure your service:
- Create your service.
- Add users.
- See the docs for your specific service.
Aiven offers a wide choice of open source time series databases in its product portfolio.
- Aiven for PostgreSQL® with the TimescaleDB extension is your best choice if you already use PostgreSQL, require SQL compatibility and have a limited time series use case.
- Aiven for ClickHouse® is your best choice when you need a high-performance columnar time series database for OLAP workloads or a data analytics warehouse.
See our time series on our website.
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Overview
Overview
Create a service
Create an Aiven service from the Aiven Console.
Create service users
Create additional users to access an Aiven service.
Power on/off a service
Power off an Aiven service to release resources and save credits, power it back on when you need it, or delete it permanently.
Rename a service
Change the name of an Aiven service by forking it under a new name and deleting the original service.
Use resource tags
Add key-value tags to an Aiven service to organize services and track ownership, cost allocation, and governance.
Fork a service
Fork an Aiven service to create an independent copy for testing, debugging, or development without affecting the original service.
Scaling and performance
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Maintenance and lifecycle
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Backups and migration
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