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 AlloyDB Omni is a solid option for PostgreSQL compatibile workloads with a need for columnar analytical data and seamless AI integration across any cloud.
- Aiven for Clickhouse® is your best choice when you need a high-prformance columnar time series database for OLAP workloads or a data analytics warehouse.
See our time series on our website.
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Create a service
Create the service of your choice at any point, using the Aiven Console.
Power on/off a service
Controlling when to power on and off your Aiven services allows you to control the use of resources and save credits.
Use resource tags
Use tags to add metadata to Aiven resources to categorize them or run custom logic on them. Tags can be attached to projects and services.
Search for services
On the page in Aiven Console, you can search for services by keywords and narrow down the results using filters.
Create service users
Service users are users that only exist in the scope of the corresponding Aiven service.
Service forking
Fork your Aiven service to make a copy of the service, for example to create a snapshot to analyze an issue.
Prepare services for high load
Prepare your services for higher than usual traffic to avoid service outages.