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Cloud Portal: The Products Tab

Provisioning a New Product​

To provision a new product, open your Portal's Products tab and click Add Product.

"Figure 1 - Add Product"

The New Product wizard will open and walk you through the following simple stages:

A. Plan
B. Billing
C. Customize
D. Summary

A. New Product: Plan​

Use the Plan page to choose your product's cloud Provider, Region and Tier.

"Figure 2 - Plan Provider Region & Tier"

  1. Cloud Provider
    Choose your cloud host. It can currently be one of three providers:
    Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

  2. Region
    Select where your equipment would be physically located.

  3. Tier
    You can raise a Free node, a Development node or a Production cluster.
    Learn more about them in the Tiers and Instances page.

B. New Product: Billing​

Enter your billing details and click Next,
or click Skip Billing Information to evaluate the cloud service using a basic free product.

"Figure 3 - New Product: Billing"

C. New Product: Customize​

Choose your product's display name, release channel and allowed IP addresses.

"Figure 4 - New Product: Customize"

The Display Name is simply the name that would appear in your Cloud Products tab.

The Allowed IPs section determines which addresses would be allowed to manage your database.
This adds an important layer to your database security on the network level. You can read more about it in the Security page.

D. New Product: Summary​

The Summary stage shows you your choices and lets you edit them if you wish.

"Figure 5 - New Product: Summary" When you finish defining your product, the cloud provisioning routine will show you your new product's status until it's ready to go.

"Figure 6 - New Product: Provisioning"

"Figure 7 - New Product: Active"

View the Product Metrics​

"Figure 8 - Product Metrics: General View"

This allows you to analyse your machine resources for a selected time period and cluster node. It's useful for analysing usage, instance overload and traffic.

View the Cluster Health​

"Figure 9 - Cluster Health: General View"

This allows you to analyse your cluster incidents for a selected time period, cluster node, severity, category and event status.
In addition, Cluster Health generates suggestions for a selected cluster node based on incident trends that can help resolve cluster stability issues.
It's useful for analysing usage, instance overload and traffic.

More details can be found here.

Managing an Existing Product​

To modify an existing product, find it in the Products tab and click its Manage button.

"Figure 10 - Manage Product: Manage Button"

This is a general view of the product details page:

"Figure 11 - Product Details"

Change Instance Type and Storage​

You can view your configuration and change your product's instance type and storage size here.

"Figure 12 - Manage Product tab"

  • Change Instance Type
    Use sliders to set your desired configuration. This can be changed later as you need to scale to changing data processing needs.

"Figure 13 - Manage Product: Scale"

More details can be found here.

  • Change Storage
    Use this slider to modify your product's storage.

"Figure 14 - Manage Product: Change Storage"

On Azure disk can be migrated to Data Disk using Migrate disk button.

"Figure 15 - Manage Product: Storage"

More details can be found here.

Instance Access​

  • Open Studio
    Click this button to open the RavenDB Studio of node A.

Security: Your Certificate, Audit Logs and Allowed IPs​

Use the security tab to download your certificate or determine which addresses are allowed to connect your database instance.

"Figure 16 - Manage Product: Manage access"

  • Download Certificate
    Click this button to download your certificate.
    Your product will communicate only with trusted sources. Install this certificate only on trusted machines.

  • Regenerate Certificate
    Click the dropdown button next to the Download certificate. Additional button to regenerate your certificate will appear.
    If your certificate has expired, you can regenerate a new one.
    After this operation you need to download the certificate again using Download Certificate button.

    The previous certificate is not going to be removed by this operation. Old certificates can be removed using RavenDB Studio Certificates view.

  • See audit logs Click this button to view audit logs. A popup will show where you have to select a year and month. You can download audit logs from there. "Figure 17 - See audit logs"

  • Edit
    Click this button to edit your product's list of Allowed IPs.

    "Figure 18 - Manage Product: Edit IPs"

    You can increase your system's security further using this in-depth security measure and restrict access to trusted sources, e.g. your application servers. More details can be found in the Security page.

Manage features​

You can view features available for your product, enable, disable and configure them here.

After enabling features some of them must be configured to work properly.

"Figure 19 - Manage Features: Enable features"

"Figure 20 - Manage Features: Configure or disable features"

Available features are described on Product Features page.

Nodes: Additional product nodes​

You can expand your cluster by adding more product nodes to your cluster. This helps improve High Availability and task/load balancing.

"Figure 21 - Nodes: Manage additional nodes"

More details can be found here.

Maintenance and Danger Zones: Terminate and Restart your Instance​

You can restart your product nodes, deploy additional tools and terminate your product here.

"Figure 22 - Manage Product: Maintenance and Termination"

  • Maintenance Zone
    Use this tab to restart selected node and deploy RavenDB tools.

"Figure 23 - Manage Product: Storage"

  • Danger Zone
    Use this tab's Terminate button to eliminate your cluster.

"Figure 24 - Manage Product: Terminate"

Terminating your instance is irreversible. Your data and cluster properties will be permanently lost.