Overview
Fleet management allows you to monitor all of your Neo4j instances, both Aura and self-managed, directly from the Aura console. You access Fleet management in Instances under the Self-managed tab.
Fleet management uses a plugin that you install on your self-managed Neo4j deployments. The plugin collects information from your deployment and securely transmits this data to Aura.
See Add a deployment for instructions on how to set up the plugin.
Additionally, the fleet management plugin provides a set of procedures to manage and monitor the connection to Aura.
Compatibility
Fleet management works with all self-managed Neo4j deployments running Neo4j 4.4 and later. All operating systems and deployment modalities supported by Neo4j are also supported by fleet management.
Neo4j Community Edition deployments are subject to some limitations due to the limited set of features, such as no metrics being available.
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Community Edition compatibility is offered on a best-effort basis. Neo4j does not offer any technical support for it. |
Security
Fleet management is designed to be secure, no inbound connections to your self-managed deployment are allowed. Further, there is no capability for performing any write operations or other mutations remotely.
No data is read from your databases. See Data transparency for a complete list of the data sent to Aura from your self-managed deployment.
Access permissions
Aura project users have the following capabilities related to fleet management and self-managed deployments, depending on their project role.
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View deployments |
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Create deployments |
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Rename deployments |
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Delete deployments |
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View connection URL |
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Add connection URL |
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Edit connection URL |
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View token info (existence, active) |
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Create token |
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Regenerate token |
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Delete token |
Features
Fleet management offers various features to manage and monitor your self-managed Neo4j deployments:
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Metrics
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Topology views (graph and tabular format)
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Server configuration viewer
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Database metadata
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License status viewer
In addition to these features, the user tools Query, Explore, and Dashboards (available in the Aura console) are also available for self-managed deployments. See Self-managed instances for more information.
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Connecting to self-managed instances with user tools works independently of the fleet management plugin and is therefore available for unmonitored deployments as well. |