Administration

Dgraph administration covers the operational tasks needed to manage, monitor, and maintain your Dgraph cluster.

Core Administration Tasks

Admin Tasks - Administrative operations including data export, cluster shutdown, database deletion, and upgrade procedures. Also covers basic security configuration like IP whitelisting and authentication tokens.

View Cluster State - View cluster state, group membership, and predicate distribution (sharding) information.

Security & Access Control

Security Configuration - TLS configuration, port usage, and network security settings.

User Management and Access Control - manage users, groups, and configure access control rules to protect your data.

Monitoring & Observability

Observability - Monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, metrics collection, distributed tracing, and log format documentation.

Troubleshooting - Common issues, OOM handling, file descriptor limits, and cluster setup verification.

Configuration

Data Compression - Configure disk compression algorithms (Snappy, Zstandard) for Alpha data storage.