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        • Configure Java SSL keystore and truststore to access Apache Kafka
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        • Prevent full disks
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        • Optimizing resource usage
        • Enable consumer lag predictor
        • Manage quotas
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        • Integration of logs into Apache Kafka® topic
        • Use Apache Kafka® Streams with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
        • Use Apache Flink® with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
        • Configure Apache Kafka® metrics sent to Datadog
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      • Topic/schema management
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        • Use schema registry in Java with Aiven for Apache Kafka®
        • Change data retention period
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        • Enable tiered storage
        • Configure tiered storage for topic
        • Tiered storage overview page
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
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      • Getting started
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          • Request a new connector
        • Source connectors
          • PostgreSQL to Kafka
          • PostgreSQL to Kafka with Debezium
          • MySQL to Kafka
          • MySQL to Kafka with Debezium
          • SQL Server to Kafka
          • SQL Server to Kafka with Debezium
          • MongoDB to Kafka
          • Handle PostgreSQL® node replacements when using Debezium for change data capture
          • MongoDB to Kafka with Debezium
          • Cassandra to Kafka
          • MQTT to Kafka
          • Google Pub/Sub to Kafka
          • Google Pub/Sub Lite to Kafka
          • Couchbase to Kafka
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          • Kafka to another database with JDBC
          • Configure AWS for an S3 sink connector
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          • Use AWS IAM assume role credentials provider
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          • Configure GCP for a Google Cloud Storage sink connector
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          • Configure GCP for a Google BigQuery sink connector
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          • Configure Snowflake for a sink connector
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        • Advanced parameters
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          • S3 sink connector by Confluent naming and data formats
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      • Getting started
      • Concepts
        • Disaster recovery and migration
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        • Topics included in a replication flow
        • MirrorMaker 2 common parameters
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        • Integrate an external Apache Kafka® cluster in Aiven
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        • Setup Apache Kafka® MirrorMaker 2 monitoring
        • Remove topic prefix when replicating with Apache Kafka® MirrorMaker 2
      • Reference
        • List of advanced parameters
        • Known issues
        • Terminology for Aiven for Apache Kafka® MirrorMaker 2
    • Karapace
      • Getting started with Karapace
      • Concepts
        • Karapace schema registry authorization
        • ACLs definition
        • Apache Kafka® REST proxy authorization
      • HowTo
        • Enable Karapace schema registry and REST APIs
        • Enable Karapace schema registry authorization
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        • Manage Karapace schema registry authorization
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        • Integrate with Google BigQuery
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          • Apache Kafka-based Apache Flink table
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          • PostgreSQL CDC connector-based Apache Flink table
          • Slack-based Apache Flink table
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      • Manage cluster
      • Advanced topics
        • Define OpenSearch® timestamp data in SQL pipeline
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
  • Apache Cassandra
    • Overview
    • Quickstart
    • Concepts
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      • Cross-cluster replication
    • HowTo
      • Get started
      • Connect to service
        • Connect with cqlsh
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      • Manage cluster
      • Cross-cluster replication
        • Enable CCR
        • Manage CCR
        • Disable CCR
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
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  • ClickHouse
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      • Disaster recovery
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      • Connect to service
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        • Connect with Go
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      • Manage service
        • Manage users and roles
        • Manage databases and tables
        • Query databases
        • Create materialized views
        • Monitor performance
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        • Copy data across ClickHouse servers
        • Fetch query statistics
        • Run federated queries
      • Manage cluster
      • Integrate service
        • Connect to Grafana
        • Connect to Apache Kafka
        • Connect to PostgreSQL
        • Connect a service as a data source (Apache Kafka and PostgreSQL)
        • Connect services via integration databases
        • Connect to external DBs with JDBC
      • Tiered storage
        • Enable tiered storage
        • Configure tiered storage
        • Check tiered storage status
        • Transfer data in tiered storage
    • Reference
      • Table engines
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      • Metrics in Grafana
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      • Table functions
      • S3 file formats
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      • Advanced parameters
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      • Connect to service
        • Connect with redis-cli
        • Connect with Go
        • Connect with NodeJS
        • Connect with Python
      • Data migration
        • Migrate Aiven for Redis
        • Migrate external Redis
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    • Quickstart
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      • User access
        • Log in to Aiven for Grafana
        • Update Grafana® service credentials
        • OAuth configuration
      • Manage dashboards
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      • Manage cluster
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    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
      • Plugins
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    • Get started
    • Concepts
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    • HowTo
      • Migrate data from self-hosted InfluxDB® to Aiven
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters for Aiven for InfluxDB®
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      • About M3DB namespaces and aggregation
      • About scaling M3
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      • 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
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    • Quickstart
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      • Backups
      • Memory usage
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      • Tuning for concurrency
    • HowTo
      • Get started
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        • Connect to Aiven for MySQL® with Python
        • Connect to Aiven for MySQL® using MySQLx with Python
        • Connect to Aiven for MySQL® with Java
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        • Connect to Aiven for MySQL® with MySQL Workbench
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        • Create a database
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        • Disable foreign key checks
        • Enable slow query logging
        • Create new tables without primary keys
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        • Detect and terminate long-running queries
      • Data migration
        • Run pre-migration checks
        • Migrate to Aiven with CLI
        • Migrate to Aiven via console
      • Disk space management
        • Prevent running out of disk space
        • Reclaim disk space
        • Identify disk usage issues
      • Cluster management
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
      • Resource capability per plan
  • OpenSearch
    • Quickstart
      • Sample dataset: recipes
    • Overview
      • Service overview
      • Plans and pricing
    • Concepts
      • Access control
        • Understanding access control in Aiven for OpenSearch®
      • OpenSearch Security
        • Key considerations
      • OpenSearch backups
      • Indices
      • Aggregations
      • High availability in Aiven for OpenSearch®
      • OpenSearch® vs Elasticsearch
      • Optimal number of shards
      • When to create a new index
      • OpenSearch® cross-cluster replication
    • HowTo
      • Manage access control
        • Manage users and access control in Aiven for OpenSearch®
      • Connect with service
        • Connect with cURL
        • Connect with NodeJS
        • Connect with Python
      • Data management
        • Copy data from OpenSearch to Aiven for OpenSearch® using elasticsearch-dump
        • Copy data from Aiven for OpenSearch® to AWS S3 using elasticsearch-dump
        • Migrate Elasticsearch data
      • Search and aggregation
        • Search with Python
        • Search with NodeJS
        • Aggregation with NodeJS
      • Manage OpenSearch Security
        • Enable OpenSearch Security management
        • SAML authentication
        • OpenID Connect
        • Audit logs
        • OpenSearch Dashboard multi-tenancy
      • Manage service
        • Restore an OpenSearch® backup
        • Set index retention patterns
        • Create alerts with OpenSearch® API
        • Handle low disk space
        • Manage large shards
        • Cross-cluster replication
      • Integrate service
        • Manage OpenSearch® log integration
        • Integrate with Grafana®
      • Upgrade Elasticsearch clients
    • 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
    • Troubleshooting
      • Troubleshoot OpenSearch® Dashboards
  • PostgreSQL
    • Overview
    • Quickstart
    • Concepts
      • aiven-db-migrate
      • DBA-type tasks
      • High availability
      • Backups
      • Connection pooling
      • Disk usage
      • Shared buffers
      • TimescaleDB
      • Upgrade and failover procedures
      • AI-powered search with pgvector
    • HowTo
      • Get started
        • Load sample dataset
      • Connect to service
        • Connect with Go
        • Connect with Java
        • Connect with NodeJS
        • Connect with PHP
        • Connect with Python
        • Connect with psql
        • Connect with pgAdmin
        • Connect with Rivery
        • Connect with Skyvia
        • Connect with Zapier
      • Administer database
        • Create additional PostgreSQL® databases
        • Perform a PostgreSQL® major version upgrade
        • Install or update an extension
        • Create manual PostgreSQL® backups
        • Restore PostgreSQL® from a backup
        • Claim public schema ownership
        • Manage connection pooling
        • Access PgBouncer statistics
        • Use the PostgreSQL® dblink extension
        • Use the PostgreSQL® pg_repack extension
        • Use the PostgreSQL® pg_cron extension
        • Enable JIT in PostgreSQL®
        • Identify PostgreSQL® slow queries
        • Detect and terminate long-running queries
        • Optimize PostgreSQL® slow queries
        • Check and avoid transaction ID wraparound
        • Prevent PostgreSQL® full disk issues
        • Enable and use pgvector
        • Check size of a database, a table or an index
        • Restrict access to databases or tables in Aiven for PostgreSQL®
      • Migrate
        • Migrate to a different cloud provider or region
        • Migrate PostgreSQL databases to Aiven via console
        • Migrate to Aiven for PostgreSQL® with aiven-db-migrate
        • Migrate to Aiven for PostgreSQL® with pg_dump and pg_restore
        • Migrating to Aiven for PostgreSQL® using Bucardo
        • Migrate between PostgreSQL® instances using aiven-db-migrate in Python
      • Replicate
        • Create and use read-only replicas
        • Set up logical replication to Aiven for PostgreSQL®
        • Enable logical replication on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL®
        • Enable logical replication on Amazon RDS PostgreSQL®
        • Enable logical replication on Google Cloud SQL
      • Manage cluster
      • Integrate
        • Database monitoring with Datadog
        • 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 Looker Studio
    • Troubleshooting
      • Connection pooling
      • Repair index
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
      • Connection limits per plan
      • Deprecated TLS versions
      • Extensions
      • Keep-alive connections parameters
      • Metrics exposed to Grafana
      • Resource capability per plan
      • Supported log formats
      • Terminology
  • Redis
    • Overview
    • Quickstart
    • Concepts
      • High availablilty
      • Lua scripts
      • Memory management and persistence
      • Restrict Redis commands
    • HowTo
      • Connect to service
        • Connect with redis-cli
        • Connect with Go
        • Connect with NodeJS
        • Connect with PHP
        • Connect with Python
        • Connect with Java
      • Administer database
        • Configure ACL permissions in Aiven for Redis®*
        • Data migration
          • Migrate from Redis®* to Aiven for Redis®* using the CLI
          • Migrate from Redis®* to Aiven for Redis®* using Aiven Console
      • Estimate maximum number of connection
      • Manage SSL connectivity
      • Handle warning overcommit_memory
      • Benchmark performance
    • Reference
      • Advanced parameters
    • Troubleshooting
      • Troubleshoot connection issues
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Reference#

Useful reference materials for working with Aiven for Apache Kafka®.

  • Advanced parameters
  • Metrics available via Prometheus
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