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Operational guidelines

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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.