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Tiered storage overview page in Aiven Console

Aiven for Apache Kafka® offers a comprehensive overview of tiered storage, allowing you to understand its usage and make informed decisions.

This overview page provides insights into various aspects of tiered storage, including hourly billing, settings, and storage details.

Prerequisite​

Access tiered storage overview page​

  1. Log in to the Aiven console, choose your project and select your Aiven for Apache Kafka service.

  2. Click Tiered storage.

    • If tiered storage is not yet enabled for your service, you see the option to enabled it.
    • If tiered storage is enabled for the service but not for any topics, you see the option to enable it for topics. For more details, see Enable and configure tiered storage for topics.

  3. Once configured, you can view an overview of tiered storage and its details.

Key insights of tiered storage​

Get a quick snapshot of the essential metrics and details related to tiered storage:

  • Current billing expenses in USD: Displays your tiered storage costs, calculated at hourly rates.
  • Forecasted month cost in USD: Displays your upcoming monthly costs based on current usage.
  • Remote tier usage in bytes: Displays the volume of data that has been tiered.
  • Storage overview: Displays an overview of how topics use remote storage.

Tiered storage settings​

Overview of the current local cache details and retention policy configurations for tiered storage:

  • Default local retention time (ms): Shows the current local data retention set in milliseconds.
  • Default local retention bytes: Shows the configured volume of data, in bytes, for local retention.

Modify retention policies​

  1. In the Tiered storage settings section, click Actions > Update tiered storage settings.
  2. Within Update tiered storage settings page, adjust the values for:
    • Default Local Retention Time (ms)
    • Default Local Retention Bytes
  3. Click Save changes.

Remote storage overview​

Explore the specifics of your storage usage and configurations:

  • Remote storage usage by topics: Analyze how much tiered storage each topic uses.
  • Filter by topic: Narrow down your view to specific topics for focused insights.