The Dashboard overview
Overview
The Overview page shows you information about your IBM Cloud® Databases for Elasticsearch deployment. The overview includes essential identifying information.
Deployment details
- Type: The type of database that is offered by the service, and the database version that your service uses.
- CRN (deployment ID): The ID is a CRN (Cloud Resource Name) that uniquely identifies the database deployment. The CRN is used to refer to the database in the API and can be used with the CLI. The Overview pane shows details of your service.
Resources
The resources tile contains information and configuration options on the size and resource usage of your deployment. You can ccale disk, memory, and CPU and configure Autoscaling.
Recent tasks
Every time that you make administrative changes to your service (such as scaling, or taking a manual backup), a task starts up. The Recent Tasks panel shows the task name and progress bar for any running tasks, and a list of the most recently completed tasks. Depending on how busy your deployment is, successful tasks are shown for 24 - 48 hours. Unsuccessful tasks are shown for 7 - 8 days. Tasks can also be retrieved from the Cloud Databases API and CLI plug-in. A historical record of tasks from any time period is available through the IBM Cloud® Activity Tracker Event Routing integration.
Observability
Observability: The Observability tile provides access to the IBM Cloud® Monitoring, logging, and event tracking integrations available for your deployment.
Endpoints
The Endpoints pane within the Overview pane contains connection strings for your deployment. Each tab contains connection information that is tailored to the type of connection or the protocol that uses it. Basic information includes things like hostname and port, the TLS self-signed certificate, TLS/SSL parameters, and the default database of your deployment.
Reference tables for the different connection types are available on the Getting credentials and connection strings page.
Connection strings reflect whether your deployment uses public or private endpoints. You can configure which endpoints are available on your deployment. For more information, see the Service endpoints integration page.
You can manage your Databases for Elasticsearch service through the Cloud Databases API. This panel provides the essential information for using the API. For more information, see the API reference page.
Backups and restore
The Backups tab is the UI for managing your deployments backups. All of the available backups are listed with their timestamps. Click a backup to grab its ID or to restore it into a new deployment. More information is on the Managing backups page.
Settings
The Settings tab contains the UI for many of the tunable settings for your deployment. You can
- view encryption details. Encryption at rest is enabled for all Databases for Elasticsearch deployments. If you brought your own encryption key from Key Protect, the panel provides a link to your Key Protect instance and the Encryption Key field has the name of the key.
- Change the admin password
- Implement or modify an IP allowlist
- Context-based restrictions
Service credentials
You can generate a new set of credentials for cases where you want to manually connect an app or external consumer to an IBM Cloud service. For more information, see Adding and viewing credentials.
View docs
The View docs link from the Actions drop list opens the main documentation page for Databases for Elasticsearch in a new tab.