How does Aiven for Metrics differ from Prometheus?

Aiven for Metrics is powered by Thanos, designed to act as a Prometheus backend. It adds long-term storage and global query views across multiple Prometheus instances. This makes it ideal for organizations needing to retain metrics data for extended periods and analyze data from various sources.

Can I run Aiven services within my own cloud account?

Yes, we offer a Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) deployment model for strict control requirements or to take advantage of your cloud provider discounts. Please contact sales for more information, or check out our BYOC documentation .

What’s included in Aiven customer support?

We proactively monitor all services 24/7/365. Our personnel are automatically alerted to any service anomalies for immediate resolution. Additionally, your account includes email and chat support. Three additional support tiers are available for a fee. Learn more about support response times and plans.

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Aiven for Metrics

Q: What is Aiven for Metrics

Aiven for Metrics is a fully managed, Prometheus-compatible metrics platform built on the open-source Thanos project. It provides a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solution for collecting, storing and querying metrics data.

Fully managed Thanos metrics – a cost-effective, open source Prometheus solution designed to scale

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How it works

What is Aiven for Metrics?

Aiven for Metrics is a Prometheus compatible metrics solution with built-in object storage. It is powered by Thanos, an open source, scalable Prometheus setup and part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Prometheus metrics at any scale with Aiven for Metrics

Aiven for Metrics is built for scale. A global query view can aggregate data from multiple Prometheus sources, and built-in object storage combines data durability with low overall cost.

Aiven for Metrics integrates with any other Aiven service, and can send system metrics to Aiven for Grafana for pre-built dashboards. With out-of-the-box support for PromQL, Aiven for Metrics is ready to provide insights across your Aiven environments, or horizontally scale existing Prometheus monitoring.

Introducing Aiven for Metrics (blog)

Aiven for Metrics (docs)

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Benefits

Benefits of Aiven for Metrics

Aiven makes it easy to deploy metrics for all the services you manage. Allocate additional resources, increase storage, perform an upgrade, or migrate to a different cloud provider at the push of a button, with zero downtime.

When it comes to offering a full set of features, interoperability, scalability, ease of use and all-inclusive pricing, there’s really nothing better than Aiven for Metrics.

Aggregated Prometheus Metrics

Aiven for Metrics provides a global query view to aggregate Prometheus sources in one place, and combine those insights with metrics collected from other Aiven services.

Powerful metrics without breaking the bank.

Aiven for Metrics automatically moves older data to object storage to ensure it can be retained as long as it's needed while keeping costs down.

Automatic updates and upgrades. Zero stress.

Stressing about applying maintenance updates or version upgrades? We’ll take care of them for you so that you can focus on putting your data to work.

Super-transparent pricing. No networking costs.

Aiven for Metrics comes with all-inclusive pricing. No hidden fees or charges, just one payment that covers everything, and you can scale up (or down) whenever you need.

Features

Key features of Aiven for Metrics

Setup

Flexible, fast and stress-free

Fully managed Thanos clusters up and running in 10 minutes
Deploy to AWS, GCP or Azure, in over 70 regions
Unlimited scalability, high availability and multi AZ
Integrated object storage keeps costs low as data grows

Connect

Integrate with your data infrastructure

Native support for PromQL queries
Integrate with Aiven for Grafana® for visualizations, and Prometheus as remote storage
Secure network connectivity using VPC peering or TransitGateway technologies
Integrate with your favorite observability tooling or use Aiven observability tools for enhanced monitoring and logging
Receive metrics from other Aiven services, and monitor their health with pre-built dashboards

Control

DevOps-friendly management and development

Manage your Aiven for Metrics cluster using Aiven Console (GUI), CLI or Terraform tools
Scale, reconfigure, or integrate to other services with just a few clicks
Guaranteed compatibility with open source software
Migrate easily between clouds and regions

Enjoy

Reliable, secure and zero lock-in

Self-healing platform
Zero downtime during scaling, upgrading, and other management operations
Automatic daily backups, depending on your plan
Secure and compliant solution — ISO 27001:2013, SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI/DSS

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Pricing plans

Pay only for what you use.

All-inclusive pricing so you never get end-of-the-month surprises. No extra maintenance, networking, or storage fees. Private networking (VPC), single-tenant, and high-availability multi-AZ available. Spin up clusters and regions when you need them, and shut them down when you don’t.

Cloud

Region

Startup
starting from
$95/month
$0.13/hour
- 1 dedicated VM
- 2-16 CPU per VM
- 4-64 GB RAM per VM
- 160-2560 GB total cluster storage
Add-ons
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Business
starting from
$285/month
$0.39/hour
- 3 dedicated VM
- 2-16 CPU per VM
- 4-64 GB RAM per VM
- 480-7680 GB total cluster storage
- Everything in Startup, plus high availability
Add-ons
Static IP Addresses
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Need help? Use our Pricing Calculator to get a recommended plan based on your unique data needs and requirements.

Data retention is only limited by storage. For information about annual discount or plan capacity beyond the listed plans, please contact us

FAQ

Resources

Learn how to use Aiven for Metrics

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Documentation

Getting started with Aiven for Metrics, including core concepts, how-to's, and more.

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