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.
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Use Fleet management plugin 1.1.1 or later for proper support of Neo4j 4.4 clusters. |
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. |