Quickstart for M3DB

M3 is the obvious choice for Cloud Native companies looking to scale up their Prometheus based monitoring systems. M3 can be used as Prometheus Remote Storage and has 100% PromQL compatibility.

Deploy M3DB on Elestio

1. Open the M3DB deployment page and sign in, or create an account.
2. Choose a cloud provider, a region and a data center. Pick the region closest to your users for the lowest latency.
3. Choose an instance size. Elestio only lists the sizes that can run M3DB properly (at least 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM).
4. Choose your support plan and the maintenance window for system and software updates (times are in UTC).
5. Click Create Service. M3DB is deployed and ready in a few minutes, and you receive an email with the access details.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the installation guide.

Access M3DB

Open your service in the Elestio dashboard and go to the Overview tab. Click Display Admin UI to reveal the URL, username and password of your M3DB instance.

If the password field is blank, M3DB does not ship with a pre-created admin user: open the admin URL to start its setup. Software without a web interface, such as databases, is reached with the credentials and port listed in the same tab. See Admin UI and credentials.

Next steps

• Custom domain and SSL: point your own domain to M3DB (guide).
• Backups: new services follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy by default (backups).
• Updates: manage the M3DB version and update policy (software versions and updates).
• Learn M3DB: read the official M3DB documentation.