Managed Cloud on Qdrant - Vector Database

Create a Cluster

info@qdrant.tech (Andrey Vasnetsov) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Creating a Qdrant Cloud Cluster

Qdrant Cloud offers two types of clusters: Free and Standard.

Free Clusters

Free tier clusters are perfect for prototyping and testing. You don’t need a credit card to join.

A free tier cluster only includes 1 single node with the following resources:

Resource	Value
RAM	1 GB
vCPU	0.5
Disk space	4 GB
Nodes	1

This configuration supports serving about 1 M vectors of 768 dimensions. To calculate your needs, refer to our documentation on Capacity Planning.

Authentication

info@qdrant.tech (Andrey Vasnetsov) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Database Authentication in Qdrant Managed Cloud

This page describes what Database API keys are and shows you how to use the Qdrant Cloud Console to create a Database API key for a cluster. You will learn how to connect to your cluster using the new API key.

Database API keys can be configured with granular access control. Database API keys with granular access control can be recognized by starting with eyJhb. Please refer to the Table of access to understand what permissions you can configure.

Cluster Access

info@qdrant.tech (Andrey Vasnetsov) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Accessing Qdrant Cloud Clusters

Once you created a cluster, and set up an API key, you can access your cluster through the integrated Cluster UI, the REST API and the GRPC API.

Cluster UI

You can access your Cluster UI via the Cluster Details page in the Qdrant Cloud Console. Authentication to a cluster is automatic if your cloud user has the read:cluster_data or write:cluster_data permission. Without the correct permissions you will be prompted to enter an API Key to access the cluster.

Scale Clusters

info@qdrant.tech (Andrey Vasnetsov) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Scaling Qdrant Cloud Clusters

The amount of data is always growing and at some point you might need to change the capacity of your cluster. You can easily scale your Qdrant cluster up or down from the Cluster detail page in the Qdrant Cloud console.

Vertical Scaling

Vertical scaling is the process of increasing the capacity of a cluster by adding or removing CPU, storage and memory resources on each database node.

Configure Clusters

info@qdrant.tech (Andrey Vasnetsov) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Configure Qdrant Cloud Clusters

Qdrant Cloud offers several advanced configuration options to optimize clusters for your specific needs. You can access these options from the Cluster Details page in the Qdrant Cloud console.

The cloud platform does not expose all configuration options available in Qdrant. We have selected the relevant options that are explained in detail below.

In adition the cloud platform automatically configures the following settings for your cluster to ensure optimal performance and reliability:

Monitor Clusters

info@qdrant.tech (Andrey Vasnetsov) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Monitoring Qdrant Cloud Clusters

Telemetry

Qdrant Cloud provides you with a set of metrics to monitor the health of your database cluster. You can access these metrics in the Qdrant Cloud Console in the Metrics and Request sections of the Cluster Details page.

Logs

Logs of the database cluster are available in the Qdrant Cloud Console in the Logs section of the Cluster Details page.

Alerts

You will receive automatic alerts via email before your cluster reaches the currently configured memory or storage limits, including recommendations for scaling your cluster.

Update Clusters

info@qdrant.tech (Andrey Vasnetsov) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Updating Qdrant Cloud Clusters

As soon as a new Qdrant version is available. Qdrant Cloud will show you an update notification in the Cluster list and on the Cluster details page.

To update to a new version, go to the Cluster Details page, choose the new version from the version dropdown and click Update.

If you are several versions behind, multiple updates might be required to reach the latest version. In this case, Qdrant Cloud will automatically perform the required intermediate updates to ensure a supported update path. You should still ensure that your client applications and used SKDs are compatible with the target version.

Backup Clusters

info@qdrant.tech (Andrey Vasnetsov) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Backing up Qdrant Cloud Clusters

Qdrant organizes cloud instances as clusters. On occasion, you may need to restore your cluster because of application or system failure.

You may already have a source of truth for your data in a regular database. If you have a problem, you could reindex the data into your Qdrant vector search cluster. However, this process can take time. For high availability critical projects we recommend replication. It guarantees the proper cluster functionality as long as at least one replica is running.

Inference

info@qdrant.tech (Andrey Vasnetsov) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Inference in Qdrant Managed Cloud

Inference is the process of creating vector embeddings from text, images, or other data types using a machine learning model.

Qdrant Managed Cloud allows you to use inference directly in the cloud, without the need to set up and maintain your own inference infrastructure. You can use embedding models hosted on Qdrant Cloud, or use externally hosted models.