Prepare your Aiven for Valkey™ service for high load

Prepare your Aiven for Valkey™ service for higher than usual traffic to avoid outages and keep performance stable.

Prepare your services for higher than usual traffic to avoid service outages by doing the following:

Subscribe to service notifications: To receive notifications about service health and warnings when resources are low, you can set service and project contacts. You can also view the status of the Aiven Platform and get updates on incidents on the status page. Follow the RSS feed, subscribe to email or SMS notifications, or use the Slack integration to get notifications about incidents.
Monitor your services: Monitor the health of your services using metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards.
Scale your services: If you forecast a load that can't be handled by the service, you can scale up your service.
Set the backup schedule: To minimize the impact of the higher load during the backup process, schedule backups outside of peak traffic hours.
Set the maintenance window: Schedule maintenance updates outside of your peak traffic hours.
Run load tests on service forks: To test the impact of high traffic on a production service, fork the service and run your load test on the fork.

Additionally, optimizing a service allows it to perform better under stress therefore avoiding the need of an upgrade. The more optimized a service is for your usage, the better you can weather spikes in traffic.