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  • Platform
    • Concepts
      • Authentication tokens
      • Availability zones
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        • Tax information regarding Aiven services
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      • Service forking
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      • Static IP addresses
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      • Dynamic Disk Sizing
      • Enhanced compliance environments (ECE)
      • Disaster Recovery testing scenarios
      • Choosing a time series database
      • Service level agreement
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      • Service resources
      • Service integration
    • HowTo
      • User/Access management
        • Change your email address
        • Create an authentication token
        • Create a new Aiven service user
        • Create and manage teams
        • Enable Aiven password
        • Manage user two-factor authentication
        • Get technical notifications
        • Reactivate suspended projects
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      • Organization and project management
        • Create organizations and organizational units
        • Manage projects
      • Service management
        • Create a new service
        • Fork your service
        • Pause or terminate your service
        • Rename a service
        • Scale your service
        • Migrate service to another cloud or region
        • Migrate a public service to a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
        • Recover a deleted service
        • Add additional storage
        • Tag your Aiven resources
        • Search for services
        • Access service logs
        • Prepare services for high load
        • Create a service integration
      • Network management
        • Download a CA certificate
        • Restrict network access to your service
        • Enable public access in a VPC
        • Manage static IP addresses
        • Handle resolution errors of private IP addresses
        • Attach a VPC to an AWS Transit Gateway
        • Manage Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering
        • Set up Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
        • Set up Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering on AWS
        • Set up Azure virtual network peering
        • Use AWS PrivateLink with Aiven services
        • Use Azure Private Link with Aiven services
      • Monitoring management
        • Monitoring services
        • Use Prometheus with Aiven
        • Increase metrics limit setting for Datadog
        • Access JMX metrics via Jolokia
      • Billing management
        • Manage payment card
        • Create billing groups
        • Manage billing groups
        • Billing contact
        • Update your tax status
        • Assign projects to billing groups
        • Solve payment issues when upgrading to larger service plans
        • Request service custom plans
        • Set up Google Cloud Marketplace
        • Move to Google Cloud Marketplace
        • Set up Azure Marketplace
      • SAML Authentication
        • Set up SAML authentication
        • Setting up SAML with OneLogin
        • Setting up SAML with Azure
        • Setting up SAML with Okta
        • Setting up SAML with Auth0
      • Get support in the Aiven console
    • Reference
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      • List of available cloud regions
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  • Integrations
    • Datadog
      • Send metrics to Datadog
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    • Amazon CloudWatch
      • CloudWatch Metrics
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        • Send logs to AWS CloudWatch from Aiven web console
        • Send logs to AWS CloudWatch from Aiven client
    • Google Cloud Logging
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      • Logtail
      • Loggly
    • Send logs to Elasticsearch®
    • Prometheus system metrics
  • Aiven tools
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        • avn service m3
        • avn service privatelink
        • avn service schema-registry-acl
        • avn service index
        • avn service tags
        • avn service topic
        • avn service user
      • avn ticket
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        • avn user access-token
      • avn vpc
    • Aiven API
      • API examples
    • Aiven Terraform provider
      • Get started
      • HowTo
        • Enable debug logging
        • Upgrade the Aiven Terraform Provider from v1 to v2
        • Upgrade the Aiven Terraform Provider from v2 to v3
        • Use PostgreSQL provider alongside Aiven Terraform Provider
        • Promote PostgreSQL read replica to master
        • Upgrade to OpenSearch® with Terraform
        • Azure virtual network peering
      • Concepts
        • Data sources in Terraform
      • Reference
        • Aiven Terraform Cookbook
          • Apache Kafka and OpenSearch
          • Multicloud PostgreSQL
          • Apache Kafka and Apache Flink
          • Apache Kafka and Apache MirrorMaker
          • Apache Kafka with Karapace
          • Visualize PostgreSQL metrics with Grafana
          • PostgreSQL with custom configs
          • Apache Kafka MongoDB Source Connector
          • Debezium Source Connector across clouds
          • Apache Kafka with topics and HTTP sink connector
          • Apache Kafka with custom configurations
          • M3 and M3 Aggregator
          • PostgreSQL® Read Replica
          • Configure ClickHouse user's access
          • Apache Kafka and ClickHouse
          • ClickHouse and PostgreSQL
        • Troubleshooting
          • Private access error when using VPC
    • Aiven Operator for Kubernetes
  • Apache Kafka
    • Get started
    • Sample data generator
    • Concepts
      • Upgrade procedure
      • Scaling options
      • Access control lists permission mapping
      • Schema registry authorization
      • Apache Kafka® REST API
      • Compacted topics
      • Partition segments
      • Authentication types
      • NOT_LEADER_FOR_PARTITION errors
      • Configuration backups for Apache Kafka®
    • HowTo
      • Code samples
        • Connect with Python
        • Connect with Java
        • Connect with Go
        • Connect with command line
        • Connect with NodeJS
      • Tools
        • Configure properties for Apache Kafka® toolbox
        • Use kcat with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
        • Connect to Apache Kafka® with Conduktor
        • Use Kafdrop Web UI with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
        • Use Provectus® UI for Apache Kafka® with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
        • Use Kpow with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
        • Connect Aiven for Apache Kafka® with Klaw
      • Security
        • Configure Java SSL keystore and truststore to access Apache Kafka
        • Manage users and access control lists
        • Monitor and alert logs for denied ACL
        • Use SASL Authentication with Apache Kafka®
        • Renew and Acknowledge service user SSL certificates
        • Encrypt data using a custom serde
      • Administration tasks
        • Schema registry
          • Use Karapace with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
        • Get the best from Apache Kafka®
        • Manage configurations with Apache Kafka® CLI tools
        • Manage Apache Kafka® parameters
        • View and reset consumer group offsets
        • Configure log cleaner for topic compaction
        • Prevent full disks
        • Set Apache ZooKeeper™ configuration
        • Avoid OutOfMemoryError errors in Aiven for Apache Kafka®
      • Integrations
        • Integration of logs into Apache Kafka® topic
        • Use Apache Kafka® Streams with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
        • Use Apache Flink® with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
        • Configure Apache Kafka® metrics sent to Datadog
        • Use ksqlDB with Aiven for Apache Kafka
        • Add kafka.producer. and kafka.consumer Datadog metrics
      • Topic/schema management
        • Creating an Apache Kafka® topic
        • Create Apache Kafka® topics automatically
        • Get partition details of an Apache Kafka® topic
        • Use schema registry in Java with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
        • Change data retention period
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
      • Metrics available via Prometheus
    • Apache Kafka Connect
      • Getting started
      • Concepts
        • List of available Apache Kafka® Connect connectors
        • JDBC source connector modes
        • Causes of “connector list not currently available”
      • HowTo
        • Administration tasks
          • Get the best from Apache Kafka® Connect
          • Bring your own Apache Kafka® Connect cluster
          • Enable Apache Kafka® Connect on Aiven for Apache Kafka®
          • Enable Apache Kafka® Connect connectors auto restart on failures
          • Manage Kafka Connect logging level
          • Request a new connector
        • Source connectors
          • PostgreSQL to Kafka
          • PostgreSQL to Kafka with Debezium
          • MySQL to Kafka
          • MySQL to Kafka with Debezium
          • SQL Server to Kafka
          • SQL Server to Kafka with Debezium
          • MongoDB to Kafka
          • Handle PostgreSQL® node replacements when using Debezium for change data capture
          • MongoDB to Kafka with Debezium
          • Cassandra to Kafka
          • MQTT to Kafka
          • Google Pub/Sub to Kafka
          • Google Pub/Sub Lite to Kafka
          • Couchbase to Kafka
        • Sink connectors
          • Kafka to another database with JDBC
          • Configure AWS for an S3 sink connector
          • Kafka to S3 (Aiven)
          • Use AWS IAM assume role credentials provider
          • Kafka to S3 (Confluent)
          • Configure GCP for a Google Cloud Storage sink connector
          • Kafka to GCS
          • Configure GCP for a Google BigQuery sink connector
          • Kafka to Big Query
          • Kafka to OpenSearch
          • Kafka to Elasticsearch
          • Configure Snowflake for a sink connector
          • Kakfa to Snowflake
          • Kafka to HTTP
          • Kafka to MongoDB
          • Kafka to MongoDB (by Lenses)
          • Kafka to InfluxDB
          • Kafka to Redis
          • Kafka to Cassandra
          • Kafka to Couchbase
          • Kafka to Google Pub/Sub
          • Kafka to Google Pub/Sub Lite
          • Kafka to Splunk
          • Kafka to MQTT
      • Reference
        • Advanced parameters
        • AWS S3 sink connector naming and data format
          • S3 sink connector by Aiven naming and data formats
          • S3 sink connector by Confluent naming and data formats
        • Google Cloud Storage sink connector naming and data formats
        • Metrics available via Prometheus
    • Apache Kafka MirrorMaker2
      • Getting started
      • Concepts
        • Disaster recovery and migration
          • Active-Active Setup
          • Active-Passive Setup
        • Topics included in a replication flow
        • MirrorMaker 2 common parameters
      • HowTo
        • Integrate an external Apache Kafka® cluster in Aiven
        • Set up an Apache Kafka® MirrorMaker 2 replication flow
        • Setup Apache Kafka® MirrorMaker 2 monitoring
        • Remove topic prefix when replicating with Apache Kafka® MirrorMaker 2
      • Reference
        • List of advanced parameters
        • Known issues
        • Terminology for Aiven for Apache Kafka® MirrorMaker 2
    • Karapace
      • Getting started with Karapace
      • Concepts
        • Karapace schema registry authorization
        • ACLs definition
        • Apache Kafka® REST proxy authorization
      • HowTo
        • Enable Karapace schema registry and REST APIs
        • Enable Karapace schema registry authorization
        • Enable Apache Kafka® REST proxy authorization
        • Manage Karapace schema registry authorization
        • Manage Apache Kafka® REST proxy authorization
  • Apache Flink
    • Overview
      • Architecture overview
      • Aiven for Apache Flink features
      • Managed service features
      • Plans and pricing
      • Limitations
    • Quickstart
    • Concepts
      • Aiven Flink applications
      • Built-in SQL editor
      • Flink tables
      • Checkpoints
      • Savepoints
      • Event and processing times
      • Watermarks
      • Windows
      • Stardand and upsert connectors
      • Settings for Apache Kafka® connectors
    • HowTo
      • Get started
      • Data service integrations
      • Aiven for Apache Flink applications
        • Create Apache Flink applications
        • Manage Apache Flink applications
      • Apache Flink tables
        • Manage Apache Flink tables
        • Create Apache Flink tables with data sources
          • Apache Kafka®-based Apache Flink® table
          • Confluent Avro-based Apache Flink® table
          • PostgreSQL®-based Apache Flink® table
          • OpenSearch®-based Apache Flink® table
          • Slack-based Apache Flink® table
          • DataGen-based Apache Flink® table
      • Manage cluster
      • Advanced topics
        • Define OpenSearch® timestamp data in SQL pipeline
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
  • Apache Cassandra
    • Get started
    • Concepts
      • Tombstones in Apache Cassandra®
    • HowTo
      • Code samples
        • Connect with Python
        • Connect with Go
      • Connect with cqlsh
      • Perform a stress test using nosqlbench
      • Use DSBULK to load, unload and count data on Aiven service for Cassandra®
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
  • ClickHouse
    • Overview
      • Features overview
      • Architecture overview
      • Plans and pricing
      • Limits and limitations
    • Quickstart
    • Concepts
      • Online analytical processing
      • Databases and tables
      • Columnar databases
      • Indexing and data processing
      • Disaster recovery
      • Strings
    • HowTo
      • Get started
        • Load data
        • Secure a service
      • Connect to service
        • Connect with the ClickHouse client
        • Connect with Go
        • Connect with Python
        • Connect with Node.js
        • Connect with PHP
        • Connect with Java
      • Manage service
        • Manage users and roles
        • Manage user permissions with Terraform
        • Manage databases and tables
        • Query databases
        • Create materialized views
        • Monitor performance
        • Read and write data across shards
        • Copy data across ClickHouse servers
      • Manage cluster
      • Integrate service
        • Connect to Grafana
        • Connect to Apache Kafka
        • Connect to PostgreSQL
        • Connect a service as a data source (Apache Kafka and PostgreSQL)
        • Connect services via integration databases
        • Connect to external DBs with JDBC
    • Reference
      • Supported table engines
      • ClickHouse metrics in Grafana
      • Formats for ClickHouse-Kafka data exchange
      • Advanced parameters
  • Grafana
    • Get started
    • HowTo
      • Dashboard preview for Aiven for Grafana®
      • Log in to Aiven for Grafana®
      • Replacing a string in Grafana® dashboards
      • Rotating Grafana® service credentials
      • Send emails from Aiven for Grafana®
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
      • Plugins
  • InfluxDB
    • Get started
    • Concepts
      • Continuous queries
      • InfluxDB® retention policies
    • HowTo
      • Migrate data from self-hosted InfluxDB® to Aiven
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters for Aiven for InfluxDB®
  • M3DB
    • Get started
    • Concepts
      • Aiven for M3 components
      • About M3DB namespaces and aggregation
      • About scaling M3
    • HowTo
      • Visualize M3DB data with Grafana®
      • Monitor Aiven services with M3DB
      • Use M3DB as remote storage for Prometheus
      • Write to M3 from Telegraf
      • Telegraf to M3 to Grafana® Example
      • Write data to M3DB with Go
      • Write data to M3DB with PHP
      • Write data to M3DB with Python
    • Reference
      • Terminology
      • Advanced parameters
      • Advanced parameters M3Aggregator
  • MySQL
    • Get started
    • Concepts
      • MySQL max_connections
      • Understand MySQL backups
      • Understanding MySQL memory usage
      • MySQL replication
      • MySQL tuning for concurrency
    • HowTo
      • Code samples
        • Connect to MySQL from the command line
        • Using mysqlsh
        • Using mysql
        • Connect to MySQL with Python
        • Connect to MySQL using MySQLx with Python
        • Connect to MySQL with Java
        • Connect to MySQL with PHP
      • Create additional MySQL® databases
      • Connect to MySQL with MySQL Workbench
      • Migrate to Aiven for MySQL from an external MySQL
      • Perform migration check
      • Prevent MySQL disk full
      • Reclaim disk space
      • Identify disk usage issues
      • Disable foreign key checks
      • Enable slow query logging
      • Backup and restore MySQL data using mysqldump
      • Create new tables without primary keys
      • Create missing primary keys
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
      • Resource capability per plan
  • OpenSearch
    • Get started
    • Sample dataset: recipes
    • Concepts
      • Access control
      • Backups
      • Indices
      • Aggregations
      • High availability in Aiven for OpenSearch®
      • OpenSearch® vs Elasticsearch
      • Optimal number of shards
      • When to create a new index
      • OpenSearch® cross-cluster replication beta
    • HowTo
      • Use Aiven for OpenSearch® with cURL
      • Migrate Elasticsearch data to Aiven for OpenSearch®
      • Manage OpenSearch® log integration
      • Upgrade to OpenSearch®
      • Upgrade Elasticsearch clients to OpenSearch®
      • Setup cross cluster replication for Aiven for OpenSearch® beta
      • Connect with NodeJS
      • Connect with Python
      • Search with Python
      • Search with NodeJS
      • Aggregation with NodeJS
      • Control access to content in your service
      • Restore an OpenSearch® backup
      • Copy data from OpenSearch to Aiven for OpenSearch® using elasticsearch-dump
      • Copy data from Aiven for OpenSearch® to AWS S3 using elasticsearch-dump
      • Set index retention patterns
      • Create alerts with OpenSearch® API
      • Integrate with Grafana®
      • Handle low disk space
    • OpenSearch Dashboards
      • Getting started
      • HowTo
        • Getting started with Dev tools
        • Create alerts with OpenSearch® Dashboards
    • Reference
      • Plugins
      • Advanced parameters
      • Automatic adjustment of replication factors
      • REST API endpoint access
      • Low disk space watermarks
  • PostgreSQL
    • Get started
    • Sample dataset: Pagila
    • Concepts
      • About aiven-db-migrate
      • Perform DBA-type tasks in Aiven for PostgreSQL®
      • High availability
      • PostgreSQL® backups
      • Connection pooling
      • About PostgreSQL® disk usage
      • About TimescaleDB
      • Upgrade and failover procedures
    • HowTo
      • Code samples
        • Connect with Go
        • Connect with Java
        • Connect with NodeJS
        • Connect with PHP
        • Connect with Python
      • DBA tasks
        • Create additional PostgreSQL® databases
        • Perform a PostgreSQL® major version upgrade
        • Install or update an extension
        • Create manual PostgreSQL® backups
        • Restore PostgreSQL® from a backup
        • Migrate to a different cloud provider or region
        • Claim public schema ownership
        • Manage connection pooling
        • Access PgBouncer statistics
        • Use the PostgreSQL® dblink extension
        • Use the PostgreSQL® pg_repack extension
        • Enable JIT in PostgreSQL®
        • Identify and repair issues with PostgreSQL® indexes with REINDEX
        • Identify PostgreSQL® slow queries
        • Detect and terminate long-running queries
        • Optimize PostgreSQL® slow queries
        • Check and avoid transaction ID wraparound
        • Prevent PostgreSQL® full disk issues
      • Replication and migration
        • Create and use read-only replicas
        • Set up logical replication to Aiven for PostgreSQL®
        • Migrate to Aiven for PostgreSQL® with aiven-db-migrate
          • Enable logical replication on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL®
          • Enable logical replication on Amazon RDS PostgreSQL®
          • Enable logical replication on Google Cloud SQL
        • Migrate to Aiven for PostgreSQL® with pg_dump and pg_restore
        • Migrating to Aiven for PostgreSQL® using Bucardo
        • Migrate between PostgreSQL® instances using aiven-db-migrate in Python
      • Integrations
        • Connect with psql
        • Connect with pgAdmin
        • Connect with Rivery
        • Connect with Skyvia
        • Connect with Zapier
        • Database monitoring with Datadog
        • Visualize PostgreSQL® data with Grafana®
        • Monitor PostgreSQL® metrics with Grafana®
        • Monitor PostgreSQL® metrics with pgwatch2
        • Connect two PostgreSQL® services via datasource integration
        • Report and analyze with Google Data Studio
    • Reference
      • High CPU load
      • Advanced parameters
      • Extensions
      • Metrics exposed to Grafana
      • Connection limits per plan
      • Resource capability per plan
      • Terminology
      • Idle connections
      • Use of deprecated TLS Versions
      • Supported log formats
  • Redis
    • Get started
    • Concepts
      • High availability in Aiven for Redis®*
      • Lua scripts with Aiven for Redis®*
      • Memory usage, on-disk persistence and replication in Aiven for Redis®*
    • HowTo
      • Code samples
        • Connect with redis-cli
        • Connect with Go
        • Connect with NodeJS
        • Connect with PHP
        • Connect with Python
        • Connect with Java
      • DBA tasks
        • Configure ACL permissions in Aiven for Redis®*
        • Migrate from Redis®* to Aiven for Redis®*
      • Estimate maximum number of connection
      • Manage SSL connectivity
      • Handle warning overcommit_memory
      • Benchmark performance
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
  • Community
    • Documentation
      • Create anonymous links
      • Create orphan pages
      • Rename files and adding redirects
    • Catch the Bus - Aiven challenge with ClickHouse
    • Rolling - Aiven challenge with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink
  • Tutorials
    • Streaming anomaly detection with Apache Flink, Apache Kafka and PostgreSQL
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Concepts#

Learn more about some of the key concepts for working with Aiven for Redis®*:

  • High availability in Aiven for Redis®*
  • Lua scripts with Aiven for Redis®*
  • Memory usage, on-disk persistence and replication in Aiven for Redis®*
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