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  • Oct 26, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Managed agents

    Create and run AI agents on Aiven (limited availability)

    You can now create and run AI agents on Aiven with Managed Agents, available in limited availability.

    Use agents to gather information, investigate issues, and perform tasks across Aiven and other systems without managing the underlying infrastructure.

    For example, you can create an agent that monitors Kafka consumer lag and posts a daily summary to Slack, or an SRE agent that investigates the health of your Aiven services.

    With Managed Agents, you can:

    • Create agents using templates, task descriptions, or manual configuration.
    • Choose an AI model and configure agent instructions.
    • Connect agents to Aiven services and external systems using built-in tools and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations.
    • Chat with agents and schedule recurring tasks.

    To get started, open your project in the Aiven Console, go to Agents, and request access to Managed Agents.

  • Oct 26, 2026

      New
      Aiven Operator for Kubernetes

    Aiven Operator for Kubernetes version 0.49.0 now available

    This release adds connection Secret routing for PrivateLink, new service configuration options, and several reliability fixes. Important updates include:

    • Choose which service endpoint is published to your connection Secret with the new connInfoSecretRoute field on ServiceUser and ServiceUserRotation. Leaving it unset keeps existing behavior, so Secrets are not rewritten on upgrade.
    • Added Kafka consumer group fields such as userConfig.kafka.group_consumer_session_timeout_ms and the related heartbeat and session timeout limits.
    • Added MySQL InnoDB tuning fields, including innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct and innodb_max_purge_lag.
    • Added OpenSearch ML Commons and KNN cache fields.
    • Added Valkey cluster fields userConfig.shard_count and userConfig.replicas.
    • Added the pg_lake PostgreSQL variant and Kafka Connect custom plugin support.

    For complete details on all changes, check out the full release notes.

  • Oct 26, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Apache Kafka®

    Apache Kafka® broker version available as a metric

    The kafka_server_app_info_info metric on the Prometheus endpoint reports the version of each Apache Kafka® broker in your Aiven for Apache Kafka® service. Use it to show the broker version on a dashboard or alert when it differs from the version you expect.

    On Apache Kafka 4.x, use the KafkaVersion label to get the upstream Apache Kafka version. The metric is available after you apply a maintenance update to your service.

    For more information, see Broker version information.

  • Oct 23, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Apache Kafka®

    Reduce cross-AZ traffic with AZ-aware listeners for diskless topics

    You can now use availability zone (AZ)-aware listeners with diskless topics in Aiven for Apache Kafka® to route producer and consumer traffic to brokers in the same availability zone, helping reduce cross-AZ network traffic and data transfer costs.

    AZ-aware listeners provide an AZ-specific Kafka endpoint for each availability zone. Configure your clients to use the endpoint for their AZ without changing the existing client.id.

    For more information, see Configure AZ-aware listeners for diskless topics.

  • Oct 23, 2026

      New
      Google Cloud
      BYOC

    Self-service enhanced compliance BYOC clouds for Google Cloud (limited availability)

    Enhanced compliance clouds on Google Cloud are now in limited availability. Set them up yourself using bring your own cloud (BYOC) to run Aiven services in your own Google Cloud project under specific compliance requirements.

    After you have a commitment deal with Aiven and Aiven enables the feature for your organization, create a custom cloud on Google Cloud and choose a deployment model:

    • hipaa for healthcare workloads that handle protected health information (PHI) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
    • pci_dss for payment workloads that require cardholder data environment (CDE) isolation under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

    These clouds keep your data in your Google Cloud project:

    • Services have no public internet access and are reachable only over VPC peering.
    • Outbound traffic, including traffic to Cloud Storage, is proxied through a bastion host.
    • Backups and cold data are stored in Google Cloud Storage buckets in your own project: one bucket for backups and one for cold data.
    • All resources are tagged with their compliance model for governance and audit traceability.
    • Services cannot be forked or migrated to another cloud.

    For more information, see Enhanced compliance BYOC clouds.

  • Oct 21, 2026

      New
      Aiven Terraform provider

    Aiven Provider for Terraform version 4.65.0 now available

    This release adds a Kafka Connect custom plugin file resource, a service first-use timestamp, and a new access permission.

    Highlights for this release:

    • New aiven_kafka_connect_custom_plugin_file resource.
    • The aiven_service_list data source adds services.first_use_time, the timestamp when a service was first used.
    • New file_sha256 field on aiven_flink_jar_application_version that triggers replacement when the local jar changes.

    For more details on fixes and updates, view the complete Aiven Provider for Terraform changelog.

  • Oct 20, 2026

      Improved
      Aiven for MySQL

    Aiven for MySQL® incremental backups now generally available

    Incremental backups for Aiven for MySQL® are now generally available. Back up only the changes made since your last full backup, instead of taking a full backup every day.

    Incremental backups shorten DDL lock times on large databases and reduce how much storage your backups use, because each incremental backup stores only the differences since the last one. You choose which days of the week full backups are taken on, and incremental backups are taken in between.

    In the Aiven Console, the Backups page now shows a Backup type column, so you can see which of your stored backups are full and which are incremental. During a restore, you can also follow which backup in the chain is being applied.

    Enable incremental backups with the mysql_incremental_backup advanced configuration option in the Aiven Console, Aiven API, Aiven Provider for Terraform, or Aiven Operator for Kubernetes.

    To get started, see Use Aiven for MySQL® incremental backups.

  • Oct 20, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect

    Custom plugins for Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect (limited availability)

    You can now upload your own Kafka Connect plugins to Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect, now in limited availability. This lets you use connectors that aren’t included in the Aiven-managed catalog. To request access, contact the sales team.

    Organization administrators can manage custom plugins and their versions. Users with access to a standalone Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect service can create connectors from those plugins.
    For more information, see Custom plugins for Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect.

  • Oct 19, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Grafana®

    Aiven for Grafana® 12 is now available

    Grafana® 12.4 is now available on Aiven for Grafana®. You can create new services on version 12 or upgrade an existing service to it from the Aiven Console, CLI, API, Terraform provider, or Kubernetes Operator.

    Grafana 12 changes behavior that your dashboards, data sources, alert rules, and plugins can depend on. For example, a data source UID can now contain only letters, numbers, and dashes, and dashboards and alert rules that reference a rejected data source must be repointed. Review the Grafana upgrade guide and test the upgrade on a fork of your service first. Downgrading to Grafana 11 is not supported.

    Grafana 11.6 remains available and is still the default version for new services.

    For the upgrade steps, see Upgrade the Aiven for Grafana® service version.