Cloud Portal: The Products Tab

The Products tab lets you provision a new cloud product, or manage an existing one.

You can provision products of three types: Free, Development and Production.

• In this page:
  • Provisioning a New Product
  • View the Product Metrics
  • View the Cluster Health
  • Managing an Existing Product
    • Change Instance Type and Storage
    • Security: Your Certificate, Audit Logs and Allowed IPs
    • Manage features
    • Nodes: Additional product nodes
    • Maintenance and Danger Zones: Terminate and Restart your Instance

Provisioning a New Product

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

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

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

A. New Product: Plan

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

1. Cloud Provider
   Choose your cloud host. It can currently be one of three providers:
   Amazon Web Services, 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.

4. Instance
   Choose the instance type that best suits your requirements.
   Learn more about them in the Tiers and Instance page.

5. Storage
   Select disk type and size.
   Learn more about them in the Scaling page.

6. Payment model
   Choose your payment model and commitment.
   Learn more about them in the Pricing, Payment and Billing page.

B. New Product: Account

Enter your account information and click Next.

C. New Product: Billing

Enter your billing details and click Next.

D. New Product: Customize

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

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

Important

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.

E. New Product: Summary

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

When you finish defining your product, the cloud provisioning routine will show you your new product's status until it's ready to go.

View the Product Metrics

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

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. The view also shows node availability for the last 30 days and a history of product type changes.
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.

This is a general view of the product details page:

Change Instance Type and Storage

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

• 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.

More details can be found here.

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

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

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.

• 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.

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

  

  We recommend fortifying your security by allowing access only to specific 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.

Important

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

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.

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.

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

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

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