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      • User/Access management
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      • Service management
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        • Use Prometheus with Aiven
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        • Manage billing groups in the Aiven Console
        • Set up GCP Marketplace
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      • Send metrics to Datadog
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        • Send logs to AWS CloudWatch from Aiven web console
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    • Aiven Terraform provider
      • Get started
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        • Upgrade the Aiven Terraform Provider from v1 to v2
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      • Concepts
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          • Apache Kafka and OpenSearch
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          • Apache Kafka and Apache Flink
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          • Apache Kafka with Karapace
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          • PostgreSQL with custom configs
          • Apache Kafka MongoDB Source Connector
          • Debezium Source Connector across clouds
          • Apache Kafka with custom configurations
          • M3 and M3 Aggregator
    • Aiven Operator for Kubernetes
  • Apache Kafka
    • Get started
    • Sample data generator
    • Concepts
      • Upgrade procedure
      • Scaling options
      • Access control lists permission mapping
      • Schema registry authorization
      • Compacted topics
      • Partition segments
      • Authentication types
      • NOT_LEADER_FOR_PARTITION errors
    • 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®
      • 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
      • Administration tasks
        • Schema registry
          • Use Karapace with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
          • Enable Karapace schema registry authorization
          • Manage Karapace schema registry authorization
        • 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®
        • 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
        • Source connectors
          • Create a JDBC source connector for PostgreSQL®
          • Create a JDBC source connector for MySQL
          • Create a JDBC source connector for SQL Server
          • Create a MongoDB source connector
          • Create a Debezium source connector for PostgreSQL®
          • Create a Debezium source connector for MySQL
          • Create a Debezium source connector for SQL Server
          • Create a Debezium source connector for MongoDB
        • Sink connectors
          • Create a JDBC sink connector
          • Configure AWS for an S3 sink connector
          • Create an S3 sink connector by Aiven
          • Create an S3 sink connector by Confluent
          • Configure GCP for a Google Cloud Storage sink connector
          • Create a Google Cloud Storage sink connector
          • Configure GCP for a Google BigQuery sink connector
          • Create a Google BigQuery sink connector
          • Create an OpenSearch® sink connector
          • Create an Elasticsearch sink connector
          • Configure Snowflake for a sink connector
          • Create a Snowflake sink connector
          • Create an HTTP sink connector
          • Create a MongoDB sink connector by MongoDB
          • Create a MongoDB sink connector by Lenses.io
          • Create a Redis®* stream reactor sink connector by Lenses.io
      • 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
        • Topics included in a replication flow
      • 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
        • Terminology for Aiven for Apache Kafka® MirrorMaker 2
  • 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
        • Enable JIT in PostgreSQL®
        • Identify and repair issues with PostgreSQL® indexes with REINDEX
        • Identify PostgreSQL® slow 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
        • Migrate between PostgreSQL® instances using aiven-db-migrate in Python
      • Integrations
        • Connect with psql
        • Connect with pgAdmin
        • 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
  • Apache Flink
    • Get started
    • Concepts
      • Apache Flink® for data analysts
      • Apache Flink® for operators
      • Standard and upsert Apache Kafka® connectors
      • Requirements for Apache Kafka® connectors
      • Built-in SQL editor
      • Event and processing times
      • Windows
      • Watermarks
      • Checkpoints
    • HowTo
      • Create Apache Flink® integrations
      • Create an Apache Kafka®-based Apache Flink® table
      • Create a PostgreSQL®-based Apache Flink® table
      • Create an OpenSearch®-based Apache Flink® table
      • Create an Apache Flink® job
      • Define OpenSearch® timestamp data in SQL pipeline
      • Create a real-time alerting solution - Aiven console
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
  • ClickHouse
    • Get started
    • Sample dataset
    • Concepts
      • Online analytical processing
      • About databases and tables
      • Columnar databases
      • Indexing and data processing
    • HowTo
      • Use the ClickHouse® client
      • Use the query editor
      • Add service user accounts
      • Grant privileges
    • Reference
      • Supported table engines
      • Advanced parameters
  • OpenSearch
    • Get started
    • Sample dataset: recipes
    • Concepts
      • Access control
      • Backups
      • Indices
      • Aggregations
      • OpenSearch® vs Elasticsearch
      • Optimal number of shards
      • When to create a new index
    • HowTo
      • Use Aiven for OpenSearch® with cURL
      • Migrate Elasticsearch data to Aiven for OpenSearch®
      • Manage OpenSearch® log integration
      • Upgrade to OpenSearch®
      • Upgrade to OpenSearch® with Terraform
      • Upgrade Elasticsearch clients to OpenSearch®
      • 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
      • Dump OpenSearch® index using elasticsearch-dump
      • Set index retention patterns
      • Create alerts with OpenSearch® API
      • 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
  • 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
      • Understand MySQL backups
      • Understand MySQL high memory usage
    • 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
      • Calculate the maximum number of connections for MySQL
      • Migrate to Aiven for MySQL from an external MySQL
      • Service migration check
      • Prevent MySQL disk full
      • Reclaim disk space
      • Disable foreign key checks
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
      • Resource capability per plan
  • 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
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
  • Apache Cassandra
    • Get started
    • Concepts
      • Tombstones in Apache Cassandra®
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
  • Grafana
    • Get started
    • HowTo
      • 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
  • Community
    • Documentation
      • Create anonymous links
      • Create orphan pages
      • Rename files and adding redirects
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Guides for Apache Cassandra®#

In this section you can find guides for working with Aiven for Apache Cassandra®.

  • Tombstones in Apache Cassandra®
    • Tombstone tradeoffs
      • Tombstones and read performance
      • Tombstones and disk usage
    • Identify when tombstones affect a query
    • Tombstone best practice
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