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Restricted Aiven for Caching commands

To ensure the stability and security of the caching environment, the Aiven for Caching service restricts certain commands. This section aims to provide you with a list of disabled/restricted commands.

Disabled commands​

For optimal performance and security, Aiven for Caching disables the following commands:

  • bgrewriteaof: Initiates a background append-only file rewrite.
  • cluster: Manages Caching cluster commands.
  • command: Provides details about all Caching commands.
  • debug: Contains sub-commands for debugging Caching.
  • failover: Manages manual failover of a master to a replica.
  • migrate: Atomically transfers a key from a Caching instance to another one.
  • role: Returns the role of the instance in the context of replication.
  • slaveof: Makes the server a replica of another instance, or promotes it as master.
  • acl: Manages Caching Access Control Lists.
  • bgsave: Creates a snapshot of the dataset into a dump file.
  • config: Alters the configuration of a running Caching server.
  • lastsave: Returns the UNIX timestamp of the last successful save to disk.
  • monitor: Streams back every command processed by the Caching server.
  • replicaof: Makes the server a replica of another instance.
  • save: Synchronously saves the dataset to disk.
  • shutdown: Synchronously saves the dataset to disk and shuts down the server.

Disabled eval commands​

The following script evaluation commands in the Aiven for Caching service are disabled. If you require these commands to be enabled, contact Aiven support.

  • eval: Executes a Lua script server-side.
  • eval_ro: Read-only variant of the eval command.
  • evalsha: Executes a script cached on the server side by its SHA1 digest.
  • evalsha_ro: Read-only variant of the evalsha command.
  • fcall: Calls a Caching function.
  • fcall_ro: Read-only variant of the fcall command.
  • function: Manages Caching functions.
  • script: Manages the script cache.