`avn service`#

Here you’ll find the full list of commands for avn service.

Manage service details#

Commands for managing Aiven services via avn commands.

`avn service acl`#

Manages the Aiven for Apache Kafka® ACL entries.

More information on acl-add, acl-delete and acl-list can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service backup-list`#

Retrieves the list of backups for a certain service.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service

Example: Retrieve the list of backups for the service grafana-25c408a5.

avn service backup-list grafana-25c408a5

An example of service backup-list output:

BACKUP_NAME                     BACKUP_TIME           DATA_SIZE  STORAGE_LOCATION
==============================  ====================  =========  ===================
grafana-20220614T140308137245Z  2022-06-14T14:03:08Z  774144     google-europe-west3

`avn service ca get`#

Retrieves the project CA that the selected service belongs to.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service
`--target-filepath`	The file path used to store the CA certificate locally

Example: Retrieve the CA certificate for the project where the service named kafka-doc belongs and store it under /tmp/ca.pem.

avn service ca get kafka-doc --target-filepath /tmp/ca.pem

`avn service cli`#

Opens the appropriate interactive shell, such as psql or redis-cli, to the given service. Supported only for Aiven for PostgreSQL®, Aiven for Redis®*, and Aiven for InfluxDB® services.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service

Example: Open a new psql shell connecting to an Aiven for PostgreSQL® service named pg-doc.

avn service cli pg-doc

`avn service connection-info`#

Retrieves the connection information for Aiven for Apache Kafka®, Aiven for PostgreSQL® and Aiven for Redis®* in a variety of formats.

More information on connection-info can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service connection-pool`#

Manages the PgBouncer connection pool for a given PostgreSQL® service.

More information on connection-pool-add, connection-pool-delete, connection-pool-list and connection-pool-update can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service connector`#

Set of commands for managing Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect connectors.

More information on connector available, connector create, connector delete, connector list, connector pause, connector restart, connector restart-task, connector resume, connector schema, connector status and connector update can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service create`#

Creates a new service.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service
`--service-type`	The type of service; the service types command has the available values
`--plan`	Aiven subscription plan name; check avn_service_plan for more information
`--cloud`	The cloud region name; check avn-cloud-list for more information
`--disk-space-gib`	Total amount of disk space for data storage (GiB)
`--no-fail-if-exists`	The create command will not fail if a service with the same name already exists
`--project-vpc-id`	Id of the project VPC where to include the created service. The cloud of the project’s VPC must match the service’s cloud
`--no-project-vpc`	Stops the service to be included in the project VPC even if one is available in the selected cloud
`--enable-termination-protection`	Enables termination protection for the service
`-c KEY=VALUE`	Any additional configuration settings for your service; check our documentation for more information, or use the service types command which has a verbose mode that shows all options.

Example: Create a new Aiven for Kafka® service named kafka-demo in the region google-europe-west3 with:

the business-4 plan
Kafka Connect enabled
600 GiB of total storage capacity

avn service create kafka-demo             \
  --service-type kafka                    \
  --cloud google-europe-west3             \
  --plan business-4                       \
  -c kafka_connect=true                   \
  --disk-space-gib 600

`avn service credentials-reset`#

Resets the service credentials. More information on user password change is provided in the dedicated page.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service

Example: Reset the credentials of a service named kafka-demo.

avn service credentials-reset kafka-demo

`avn service current-queries`#

List current service connections/queries for an Aiven for PostgreSQL®, Aiven for MySQL or Aiven for Redis®* service.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service

Example: List the queries running for a service named pg-demo.

avn service current-queries pg-demo

`avn service database`#

Manages databases within an Aiven for PostgreSQL®, Aiven for MySQL or Aiven for InfluxDB® service.

More information on database-add, database-delete and database-list can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service es-acl`#

Manages rules to OpenSearch® ACL and extended ACL configuration.

More information on es-acl-add, es-acl-del, es-acl-disable, es-acl-enable, es-acl-extended-disable, es-acl-extended-enable and es-acl-extended-list can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service flink`#

Manages Aiven for Apache Flink® tables and jobs.

More info on flink create-application, flink list-applications, flink get-application, flink update-application, flink delete-application, flink create-application-version, flink validate-application-version, flink get-application-version, flink delete-application-version, flink list-application-deployments, flink get-application-deployment, flink create-application-deployment, flink delete-application-deployment, flink stop-application-deployment, flink cancel-application-deployment can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service get`#

Retrieves a single service details.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service
`--format`	Format of the output string

Example: Retrieve the pg-demo service details in the '{service_name} {service_uri}' format.

avn service get pg-demo --format '{service_name} {service_uri}'

Example: Retrieve the pg-demo full service details in JSON format.

avn service get pg-demo --json

`avn service index`#

Manages OpenSearch® service indexes.

More information on index-delete and index-list can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service integration`#

Manages Aiven internal and external services integrations.

More information on integration-delete, integration-endpoint-create, integration-endpoint-delete, integration-endpoint-list, integration-endpoint-types-list, integration-endpoint-update, integration-list, integration-types-list and integration-update can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service keypair get`#

Service keypair commands. The use cases for this command are limited to accessing the keypair for an Aiven for Apache Cassandra® service that was started in migration mode. For more information about this, see https://help.aiven.io/en/articles/3147884-using-sstableloader-to-migrate-your-existing-cassandra-cluster-to-aiven

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service
`keypair`	The name of the keypair. Options are `cassandra_migrate_sstableloader_user`
`--key-filepath`	The location to download the key to
`--cert-filepath`	The location to download the certificate to

Example: Retrieve the keypair, and save them to the /tmp directory, for an Aiven for Apache Cassandra® service, called test-cass, that was started in migration mode.

avn service keypair get --key-filepath /tmp/keyfile --cert-filepath /tmp/certfile test-cass cassandra_migrate_sstableloader_user

The output of this command results in 2 files (keyfile and certfile) saved to the /tmp directory.

`avn service list`#

Lists services within an Aiven project.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service

Example: Retrieve all the services running in the currently selected project.

avn service list

An example of service list output:

SERVICE_NAME        SERVICE_TYPE  STATE    CLOUD_NAME           PLAN         CREATE_TIME           UPDATE_TIME
==================  ============  =======  ===================  ===========  ====================  ====================
cassandra-28962a5b  cassandra     RUNNING  google-europe-west3  business-16  2021-09-27T10:18:19Z  2021-09-27T10:25:58Z
os-24a6d6db         opensearch    RUNNING  google-europe-west3  business-4   2021-09-27T10:18:04Z  2021-09-27T10:23:31Z
influx-103c3f07     influxdb      RUNNING  google-europe-west3  startup-4    2021-09-27T10:18:13Z  2021-09-27T10:22:05Z
kafka-2134          kafka         RUNNING  google-europe-west3  business-4   2021-09-27T08:48:35Z  2021-09-27T11:20:55Z
mysql-12f7628c      mysql         RUNNING  google-europe-west3  business-4   2021-09-27T10:18:09Z  2021-09-27T10:23:02Z
pg-123456           pg            RUNNING  google-europe-west3  business-4   2021-09-27T07:41:04Z  2021-09-27T10:56:19Z

Example: Retrieve all the services with name demo-pg running in the project named mytestproject.

avn service list demo-pg --project mytestproject

`avn service logs`#

Retrieves the selected service logs.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service

Example: Retrieve the logs for the service named pg-demo.

avn service logs pg-demo

`avn service m3`#

Manages Aiven for M3 namespaces.

More information on namespace create, namespace delete, namespace list, namespace update can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service maintenance-start`#

Starts the service maintenance updates.

Warning

Maintenance updates do not typically cause any noticeable impact on the service in use but may sometimes cause a short period of lower performance or downtime which shall not exceed 1 hour.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service

Example: Start the maintenance updates for the service named pg-demo.

avn service maintenance-start pg-demo

Note

If there are no updates available, the command will show a service is up to date, maintenance not required message.

`avn service metrics`#

Retrieves the metrics for a defined service in Google chart compatible format. The list of service metrics includes:

cpu_usage: CPU usage percentage
disk_usage: Disk space usage percentage
disk_ioread: Disk reads IOPS
disk_iowrites: Disk writes IOPS
load_average: 5 min CPU load average
mem_usage: Memory usage percentage
net_receive: Network traffic received in bytes/s
net_send: Network traffic transmitted in bytes/s

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service
`--period`	The time period to retrieve the metrics for (possible values `hour`, `day`, `week`, `month`, `year`); the time period is relative to the current date and time, e.g. `hour` will retrieve metrics for the last hour.

Note

The granularity of retrieved data changes based on the --period flag:

hour: 30 seconds
day: 5 minutes
week: 30 minutes
month: 3 hours
year: 1 day

Example: Retrieve the daily metrics for the service named pg-demo.

avn service metrics pg-demo --period day

`avn service migration-status`#

Get migration status

`avn service plans`#

Lists the service plans available in a selected project for a defined service type.

Parameter	Information
`--service-type`	The type of service, check avn-cli-service-type for more information
`--cloud`	The cloud region
`--monthly`	To show the monthly price estimate

Example: List the service plans available for a PostgreSQL® service in the google-europe-west3 region.

avn service plans --service-type pg --cloud google-europe-west3

An example of service plans output:

pg:hobbyist                    $0.034/h  Hobbyist (1 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 8 GB disk)
pg:startup-4                   $0.136/h  Startup-4 (1 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB disk)
pg:startup-8                   $0.267/h  Startup-8 (2 CPU, 8 GB RAM, 175 GB disk)
...
pg:premium-360                $36.027/h  Premium-360 (96 CPU, 384 GB RAM, 3000 GB disk) 3-node high availability set
pg:premium-512                $43.836/h  Premium-512 (128 CPU, 512 GB RAM, 3000 GB disk) 3-node high availability set
pg:premium-896                $72.329/h  Premium-896 (224 CPU, 896 GB RAM, 3000 GB disk) 3-node high availability set

`avn service privatelink`#

Manages Aiven privatelink connections for AWS and Azure.

More information on privatelink availability, privatelink aws and privatelink azure can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service queries`#

Lists the service connections/queries statistics for an Aiven for PostgreSQL® or Aiven for MySQL. The list of queries data points retrievable includes:

the public.pg_stat_statements columns (see the documentation for these statistics columns) for Aiven for PostgreSQL services.
the performance_schema.events_statements_summary_by_digest (refer to documentation on the events information from the performance schema) for Aiven for MySQL services.

A description of the retrieved columns for Aiven for PostgreSQL can be found in the dedicated PostgreSQL documentation .

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service
`--format`	The format string for output defining the query metrics to retrieve, e.g. `'{calls} {total_time}'`

Example: List the queries for an Aiven for PostgreSQL service named pg-demo including the query blurb, number of calls and both total and mean execution time.

avn service queries pg-demo --format '{query},{calls},{total_time},{mean_time}'

`avn service queries-reset`#

Resets service connections/queries statistics for an Aiven for PostgreSQL® or Aiven for MySQL service. Resetting query statistics could be useful to measure database behaviour in a precise point in time or after a change has been deployed.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service

Example: Reset the queries for a service named pg-demo.

avn service queries-reset pg-demo

`avn service schema`#

Service Schema commands

`avn service schema-registry-acl`#

Manages Aiven for Apache Kafka® Karapace schema registry authorization.

More information on schema-registry-acl-add, schema-registry-acl-delete, schema-registry-acl-list can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service sstableloader`#

Service sstableloader commands

`avn service tags`#

Manage service tags.

More information on tags list, tags replace and tags update can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service task-create`#

Create a service task

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service
`--project`	Project name (defaults to `None`)
`--operation`	Task operation (default: `upgrade_check`, possible values: `migration_check`, `upgrade_check`)
`--target-version`	Upgrade target version (used for PostgreSQL) (possible values: `11`, `12`, `13`, `14`)
`--source-service-uri`	Migration: source URI for migration
`--ignore-dbs`	Migration: comma-separated list of databases to be ignored (MySQL only)
`--format`	Format string for output, e.g. `{name} {retention_hours}`
`--json`	Raw JSON output

Example: Create a migration task to migrate a MySQL database to Aiven to the service mysql in project myproj

avn service task-create --operation migration_check --source-service-uri mysql://user:password@host:port/databasename --project myproj mysql

An example avn service task-create output:

TASK_TYPE              SUCCESS  TASK_ID
=====================  =======  ====================================
mysql_migration_check  null     e2df7736-66c5-4696-b6c9-d33a0fc4cbed

`avn service task-get`#

Get details for a single task for your service

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service
`--project`	Project name (defaults to `None`)
`--task-id`	The task ID to check
`--format`	Format string for output, e.g. `{name} {retention_hours}`
`--json`	Raw JSON output

Example: Check the status of your migration task with id e2df7736-66c5-4696-b6c9-d33a0fc4cbed for the service named mysql in the myproj project

avn service task-get --task-id e2df7736-66c5-4696-b6c9-d33a0fc4cbed --project myproj mysql

An example avn service task-get ouput:

TASK_TYPE              SUCCESS  TASK_ID                               RESULT
=====================  =======  ====================================  ====================================================================================
mysql_migration_check  true     e2df7736-66c5-4696-b6c9-d33a0fc4cbed  All pre-checks passed successfully, preferred migration method will be [Replication]

`avn service terminate`#

Permanently deletes a service.

Warning

The terminate command deletes the service and the associated data. The data is not recoverable. To temporarily shut down the service use the service update command: avn service update SERVICE_NAME --power-off

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service
`--force`	Force the action without requiring confirmation

Example: Terminate the service named demo-pg.

avn service terminate demo-pg

Note

To avoid accidental service deletion, enable the termination protection during service creation or update by using the --enable-termination-protection flag

`avn service topic`#

Manages Aiven for Apache Kafka® topics.

More information on topic-create, topic-delete, topic-list and topic-update can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service types`#

Lists the Aiven service types available in a project.

Example: Retrieve all the services types available in the currently selected project.

avn service types

An example of service types output:

SERVICE_TYPE       DESCRIPTION
=================  ===================================================================================
cassandra          Cassandra - Distributed NoSQL data store
elasticsearch      Elasticsearch - Search & Analyze Data in Real Time
grafana            Grafana - Metrics Dashboard
influxdb           InfluxDB - Distributed Time Series Database
kafka              Kafka - High-Throughput Distributed Messaging System
kafka_connect      Kafka Connect - Kafka Connect service
kafka_mirrormaker  Kafka MirrorMaker - Kafka MirrorMaker service
m3aggregator       M3 Aggregator - Aggregates metrics and provides downsampling
m3db               M3DB - Distributed time series database
mysql              MySQL - Relational Database Management System
opensearch         OpenSearch - Search & Analyze Data in Real Time, derived from Elasticsearch v7.10.2
pg                 PostgreSQL - Object-Relational Database Management System
redis              Redis - In-Memory Data Structure Store

The service types command in verbose mode also shows all the configuration options for each type of service:

avn service types -v

You might find it helpful to pipe the output to less since there are a large number of options available and the command output is long.

`avn service update`#

Updates the settings for an Aiven service.

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service
`--cloud`	The name of the cloud region where to deploy the service; check avn-cloud-list.
`-c KEY=VALUE`	Apply a configuration setting. Run `avn service types -v` to view available values.
`--disk-space-gib`	Total amount of disk space for data storage (GiB)
`--plan`	Aiven subscription plan name. See avn_service_plan.
`--power-on`	Power on the service
`--power-off`	Power off the service
`--maintenance-dow`	Set the automatic maintenance window’s day of the week (possible values `monday`, `tuesday`, `wednesday`, `thursday`, `friday`, `saturday`, `sunday`, `never`)
`--maintenance-time`	Set the automatic maintenance window’s start time (`HH:MM:SS`)
`--enable-termination-protection`	Enable termination protection
`--disable-termination-protection`	Disable termination protection
`--project-vpc-id`	The ID of the project VPC to use for the service. The cloud of the project’s VPC must match the service’s cloud.
`--no-project-vpc`	The service will not use any VPC
`--force`	Force the action without requiring confirmation

Example: Update the service named demo-pg, move it to azure-germany-north region and enable termination protection.

avn service update demo-pg        \
  --cloud azure-germany-north     \
  --enable-termination-protection

Example: Update the service named big-service to scale it down to the Business-4 plan.

avn service update big-service        \
  --plan business-4

Example: Update the service named secure-database to only accept connections from the range 10.0.1.0/24 and the IP 10.25.10.12.

avn service update secure-database \
  -c ip_filter=10.0.1.0/24,10.25.10.1/32

Note

There is no whitespace between the IP addresses and comma in the command.

Example: Update the Kafka version of the service named kafka-service.

avn service update \
  kafka-service -c kafka_version=X.X

Note

This also works for other service types. To see a full list of configuration parameters, have a look at avn service types -v

`avn service user`#

Manages Aiven users and credentials.

More information on user-create, user-creds-acknowledge, user-creds-download, user-delete, user-get, user-kafka-java-creds, user-list, user-password-reset and user-set-access-control can be found in the dedicated page.

`avn service versions`#

For each service, lists the versions available together with:

STATE: if the version is available or unavailable
AVAILABILITY_START_TIME and AVAILABILITY_END_TIME: Period in which the specific version is available
AIVEN_END_OF_LIFE_TIME: Aiven deprecation date for the specific version
UPSTREAM_END_OF_LIFE_TIME: Upstream deprecation date for the specific version
TERMINATION_TIME: Termination time of the active instances
END_OF_LIFE_HELP_ARTICLE_URL: URL to “End of Life” documentation

Example: List all service versions.

avn service versions

An example of service versions output:

SERVICE_TYPE   MAJOR_VERSION  STATE        AVAILABILITY_START_TIME  AVAILABILITY_END_TIME  AIVEN_END_OF_LIFE_TIME  UPSTREAM_END_OF_LIFE_TIME  TERMINATION_TIME  END_OF_LIFE_HELP_ARTICLE_URL
=============  =============  ===========  =======================  =====================  ======================  =========================  ================  ====================================================================================================
cassandra      3.11           available    2018-11-08T00:00:00Z     null                   null                    null                       null              null
OpenSearch     7              unavailable  2020-08-27T00:00:00Z     2021-09-23T00:00:00Z   2022-03-23T00:00:00Z    null                       null              https://help.aiven.io/en/articles/5424825
OpenSearch     7.10           unavailable  2021-02-22T00:00:00Z     2021-09-23T00:00:00Z   2022-03-23T00:00:00Z    null                       null              https://help.aiven.io/en/articles/5424825
OpenSearch     7.9            unavailable  2020-08-27T00:00:00Z     2021-09-23T00:00:00Z   2022-03-23T00:00:00Z    null                       null              https://help.aiven.io/en/articles/5424825
kafka          2.3            unavailable  2019-09-05T00:00:00Z     2021-08-13T00:00:00Z   2021-08-13T00:00:00Z    null                       null              https://help.aiven.io/en/articles/4472730-eol-instructions-for-aiven-for-kafka
kafka          2.4            unavailable  2019-10-21T00:00:00Z     2021-08-13T00:00:00Z   2021-08-13T00:00:00Z    null                       null              https://help.aiven.io/en/articles/4472730-eol-instructions-for-aiven-for-kafka
...
pg             12             available    2019-11-18T00:00:00Z     2024-05-14T00:00:00Z   2024-11-14T00:00:00Z    2024-11-14T00:00:00Z       null              https://help.aiven.io/en/articles/2461799-how-to-perform-a-postgresql-in-place-major-version-upgrade
pg             13             available    2021-02-15T00:00:00Z     2025-05-13T00:00:00Z   2025-11-13T00:00:00Z    2025-11-13T00:00:00Z       null              https://help.aiven.io/en/articles/2461799-how-to-perform-a-postgresql-in-place-major-version-upgrade
pg             9.6            unavailable  2016-09-29T00:00:00Z     2021-05-11T00:00:00Z   2021-11-11T00:00:00Z    2021-11-11T00:00:00Z       null              https://help.aiven.io/en/articles/2461799-how-to-perform-a-postgresql-in-place-major-version-upgrade

`avn service wait`#

Waits for the service to reach the RUNNING state

Parameter	Information
`service_name`	The name of the service

Example: Wait for the service named pg-doc to reach the RUNNING state.

avn service wait pg-doc

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avn service#

Manage service details#

avn service acl#

avn service backup-list#

avn service ca get#

avn service cli#

avn service connection-info#

avn service connection-pool#

avn service connector#

avn service create#

avn service credentials-reset#

avn service current-queries#

avn service database#

avn service es-acl#

avn service flink#

avn service get#

avn service index#

avn service integration#

avn service keypair get#

avn service list#

avn service logs#

avn service m3#

avn service maintenance-start#

avn service metrics#

avn service migration-status#

avn service plans#

avn service privatelink#

avn service queries#

avn service queries-reset#

avn service schema#

avn service schema-registry-acl#

avn service sstableloader#

avn service tags#

avn service task-create#

avn service task-get#

avn service terminate#

avn service topic#

avn service types#

avn service update#

avn service user#

avn service versions#

avn service wait#

`avn service`#

`avn service acl`#

`avn service backup-list`#

`avn service ca get`#

`avn service cli`#

`avn service connection-info`#

`avn service connection-pool`#

`avn service connector`#

`avn service create`#

`avn service credentials-reset`#

`avn service current-queries`#

`avn service database`#

`avn service es-acl`#

`avn service flink`#

`avn service get`#

`avn service index`#

`avn service integration`#

`avn service keypair get`#

`avn service list`#

`avn service logs`#

`avn service m3`#

`avn service maintenance-start`#

`avn service metrics`#

`avn service migration-status`#

`avn service plans`#

`avn service privatelink`#

`avn service queries`#

`avn service queries-reset`#

`avn service schema`#

`avn service schema-registry-acl`#

`avn service sstableloader`#

`avn service tags`#

`avn service task-create`#

`avn service task-get`#

`avn service terminate`#

`avn service topic`#

`avn service types`#

`avn service update`#

`avn service user`#

`avn service versions`#

`avn service wait`#