Operational guidelines

Follow these guidelines to maintain high availability and optimal performance for your Aerospike Cloud deployment.

Monitor memory, CPU, replica lag, and storage usage continuously using metrics emitted from the Aerospike Prometheus endpoint.
Set alerts for significant changes in usage patterns or when approaching resource limits for storage, memory, and CPU.
Scale clusters proactively to ensure sufficient capacity for your workload and prevent service degradation.
- Account for time for migrations to complete when scaling up clusters.
Enable circuit breaker functionality in your Aerospike clients and configure appropriate retry timeouts.
For disaster recovery, configure standby clusters using cross-datacenter replication (XDR) and regularly test failover to measure recovery time for your workload.
Perform backups during low write activity periods to minimize impact, and regularly test restores to verify data recovery readiness.
Maintain secure network connectivity configurations (VPC peering, private endpoints, firewall rules) following Aerospike security recommendations.
Ensure proper TLS configuration in clients for encrypted communication with the database.