Aerospike tools
For the complete documentation index see: llms.txt
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This page describes the comprehensive suite of command-line utilities and services provided by Aerospike to manage, monitor, and optimize your database clusters.
Packaged tools
The following tools are shipped in the official RPM, DEB, and macOS packages.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| Aerospike Quick Look (AQL) | Browse cluster data and manage user-defined functions (UDFs). |
| Aerospike Admin (asadm) | Monitor cluster health; manage ACLs, UDFs, and secondary indexes; change dynamic config; run tuning commands across nodes. |
| Aerospike Info (asinfo) | Query nodes, collect stats, and set tuning parameters. Run cluster-wide with asadm. |
| Backup (asbackup) | Back up a cluster to local directories or text files from an external node. |
| Restore (asrestore) | Restore backups to specific bins or sets. |
| Aerospike Benchmark (asbench) | Run highly configurable performance benchmarks with custom data formats and access patterns. |
| Aerospike Configuration (asconfig) | Configure the Aerospike Database or validate and view diffs for Aerospike configuration files. The same files can be used with IDE integration for Aerospike configuration files. |
Non-packaged tools
The following tools are distributed or installed separately from the main tools package.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| Aerospike Backup Service (ABS) | REST API service for automating backup and restore operations with VM or Docker. |
| Aerospike Certification Tool (ACT) | Test and certify Flash/SSD latency and I/O patterns for Aerospike storage. |
| Aerospike Shared-Memory Tool (ASMT) | Back up and restore shared memory segments for faster node restarts (Enterprise Edition). |
Aerospike Validation Tool (asvalidation) | Detects and repairs malformed collection data type (CDT) bins (Map and List). Install from GitHub releases. |
Aerospike Data Loader (asloader) | Ingest data from flat files (CSV, TSV, DSV) directly into a cluster. |
Aerospike Log Latency (asloglatency) | Analyzes Aerospike log files offline. |
Community-supported: AeroLab
Use AeroLab to quickly deploy dev and test clusters on Docker, AWS, or GCP. It is ideal for testing configuration changes, upgrades, and client applications.
Removed tools
- UDA: Removed in tools 12.0.0 with no replacement.