Manage and monitor AlloyDB Omni

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This page describes how to manage AlloyDB Omni user roles, monitor the activity of your AlloyDB Omni server, and update or remove your AlloyDB Omni installation.

Manage user roles

AlloyDB Omni uses the following roles:

  • AlloyDB Omni includes a superuser role named alloydbadmin, and a non-superuser role named alloydbmetadata.

  • The default postgres user has a superuser role.

  • All other predefined user roles have no privileges. They are reserved for potential uses in the future.

Set up an AlloyDB Omni database

We recommend following these steps when setting up an AlloyDB Omni database:

  1. Define or import your databases using the postgres user role. In a new installation, this role has superuser privileges.

  2. Create new user roles that have the correct level of access to your application's tables, again using the postgres user role.

  3. Configure your application to connect to the database using these new, limited-access roles.

You can create and define as many new user roles as you need. Don't modify or delete any of the user roles that comes with AlloyDB Omni.

For more information, see Manage AlloyDB Omni users and roles.

Monitor AlloyDB Omni

Monitoring your AlloyDB Omni installation includes fetching and analyzing AlloyDB Omni metrics.

Single-server

By default, to retrieve AlloyDB Omni logs, run:

Docker 

  docker logs CONTAINER_NAME

Replace CONTAINER_NAME with the name of your AlloyDB Omni container.

To configure the logging behavior of AlloyDB Omni, see Customize your AlloyDB Omni installation.

Podman 

  podman logs CONTAINER_NAME

Replace CONTAINER_NAME with the name of your AlloyDB Omni container.

To configure the logging behavior of AlloyDB Omni, see Customize your AlloyDB Omni installation.

Uninstall AlloyDB Omni

Single-server

To uninstall AlloyDB Omni, stop and delete the AlloyDB Omni container using the following command:

Docker 

 docker container stop CONTAINER_NAME
   docker container rm CONTAINER_NAME

Replace CONTAINER_NAME with the name of your AlloyDB Omni container.

Podman 

 podman container stop CONTAINER_NAME
   podman container rm CONTAINER_NAME

Replace CONTAINER_NAME with the name of your AlloyDB Omni container.

Podman 

 podman container stop CONTAINER_NAME
   podman container rm CONTAINER_NAME

Replace CONTAINER_NAME with the name of your AlloyDB Omni container.

You can move, archive, or delete an external data directory depending on whether and how you want to preserve your data after uninstalling AlloyDB Omni.