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Remove the PLUGINS__ configuration section

The users don't need to know or care whether what they are configuration is a plugin or not. e.g. Instead of EVENTSTORE__PLUGINS__AUTOSCAVENGE__ENABLED we could have EVENTSTORE__AUTOSCAVENGE__ENABLED The tradeoff (and the reason why it is like thi...
Timothy Coleman 17 days ago in EventStoreDB / Configuration 0

Support plugin configuration in the main yaml config

At the moment plugins can be configured via command line, environment variables, or json configuration file. But they cannot be configured in the main server yaml config. I think this is just because our yaml config parser only parses the top leve...
Timothy Coleman 17 days ago in EventStoreDB / Configuration 1

Consider adding projection execution time to the metrics endpoint

Is it possible to add a new metrics for projection execution time?
Cindy Lo Min Chung 2 months ago in EventStoreDB / Operations 0

Read only replicas with single-node databases

Consider allowing read only replicas to connect to single node deployments. Currently, this is not possible because replication is disabled on single node databases.
Faheem Muhammad Ramjaun 3 months ago in EventStoreDB / Operations / Performance 0

Adjust the Log levels

At the moment the default log level is Debug, because lots of important logging is currently at the debug level. Users understandably sometimes raise the level to Information and miss important logs We should review and adjust the log levels of al...
Tim Coleman 3 months ago in EventStoreDB / Operations 0

Make the scavenge.db file take up less space

At the moment it has to detect and track stream hash collisions, but it would be possible to track these more easily in the database itself (without taking additional space) and remove the significant bulk of scavenge.db. It may also make the accu...
Tim Coleman 4 months ago in EventStoreDB / Operations 0

Support certificates with EC (elliptic curve) keys

ESDB currently supports only RSA keys in certificates when specifying --certificate-private-key-file. The advantage of using EC keys would be that the key is much smaller for the same security level (EC takes 256 bit vs RSA 2048 bit for same secur...
Alexey Zimarev 6 months ago in EventStoreDB / Configuration / Operations / Security 1

Store some configuration in the database

ESDB is primarily configured using the config file, which is located on each cluster node. Some features (projections, connectors) are configured in the database itself. It can be confusing to understand where things are configured and why some co...
Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Configuration / Operations 0 Planned

Policy-based authorisation

ACLs are hard to manage because they are stream specific. Adding poicies that would cover things like category would make authorisation a lot easier to set up.
Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Dev experience / Operations / Security 0 Planned

Backup and restore

Implement backup and restore as database functions.
Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Operations 0 Planned