Observe Aerospike Cloud

Monitor the health and performance of your Aerospike Cloud database clusters with metrics and logs.

At a glance, you can access:

• Cloud Console metrics for quick health checks in the UI
• Cloud Public API metrics for programmatic access and scaling decisions
• Aerospike Database metrics for full Prometheus monitoring
• Aerospike Database logs for troubleshooting and debugging

When to use Cloud metrics vs Aerospike Database metrics

Use Cloud metrics for quick, high-level status checks and scaling decisions. For production monitoring and alerting, use Aerospike Database metrics, which expose the full per-node Prometheus metrics set.

Cloud Console metrics

View Cloud Console metrics for your database cluster in the Cloud Console. Use Cloud Console metrics for quick health checks and to gauge cluster performance at a glance.

Cloud Public API metrics

Access the same metrics programmatically through the Cloud Public APIs using Cloud API keys. Use these metrics to check the basic status of your cluster and make high-level decisions like scaling.

Caution

Do not use the Cloud Public API metrics endpoint for production monitoring purposes. The Cloud Public API metrics are rough estimates, limited to a 1-hour time window, and are refreshed every few seconds. For comprehensive and accurate monitoring, use the Aerospike Database metrics endpoint instead.

Aerospike Database metrics

For production monitoring, use the Aerospike Database metrics endpoint, which exposes the full Prometheus metrics set from each cluster node. Metrics are on port 9145 at the /metrics path and require a VPC peering connection between your AWS VPC and the Aerospike Cloud database VPC.

Pair Aerospike Database metrics with Prometheus and Grafana for:

• Detailed monitoring and custom dashboards
• Alerting on memory, disk, and cluster health
• Automated scaling using the Cloud API when thresholds are exceeded

For automated scaling decisions, use Cloud Public API metrics instead of the database metrics endpoint.

See Aerospike Database metrics for detailed instructions on collecting metrics from your cluster. For a complete list of metrics, see the Metrics Reference.

Aerospike Database logs

Use Aerospike Database logs to troubleshoot and debug your cluster.

Tutorial

Monitor with Grafana - Deploy Grafana Alloy on ECS, configure Grafana Cloud dashboards and alerts, and scale your cluster with the Cloud API.