Access to Valkey administration commands
As a Database Reliability Engineer, I would like to be able to use commands such as ACL or Monitor when investigating some operational and performance issues and be able to check the documentation to find out which commands are available.
These commands are blocked so that Aiven can control the service and keep it secure and available. We provide a subset of these commands to control ACLs. We also do not expose the monitor command since it will block the server completely due to the performance overhead. This is something we are improving in our documentation (which commands are specifically blocked). Look for a new documentation page to be published this month with additional details.
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Letícia Simioni Couto commented
Being able to run the MONITOR command is essential for investigating operational and performance issues. Aiven uses 30% of the memory, so this command could be related to the remaining memory we can't use, as it's exclusive to Aiven.