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      • OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation Configuration
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        • Avoid false errors from expected 4xx responses
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      • 📚 Reference
        • Prometheus Alerting Rule Reference
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        • Disable persistent application logs
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        • PromQL Reference
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      • Getting Started with Observability in Nais
      • Adding Custom Spans and Metrics with OpenTelemetry
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    • BigQuery
      • 🎯 How-To
        • Using BigQuery from your application
        • Create an instance of BigQuery
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        • Upgrade major version
      • 📚 Reference
    • Buckets
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        • Create a bucket
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      • 📚 Reference
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        • How to turn on Tiered Storage for your Kafka topic
        • Troubleshooting
      • 📚 Reference
        • Environment variables for Kafka
        • Nais Topic example YAML
        • Nais Topic reference
        • Kafka metrics
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      • 🎯 How-To
        • Create OpenSearch
        • Use OpenSearch in your workload
        • Delete OpenSearch
        • Create an OpenSearch instance (legacy)
        • Get access to the dashboard
        • Migrate OpenSearch management to Nais Console
        • Get temporary OpenSearch credentials
        • Upgrade major version
      • 📚 Reference
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        • Postgres cluster
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        • Connect from laptop
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        • Nais Postgres example YAML
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        • Create Valkey
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        • Create a Valkey instance explicitly (legacy)
        • Migrate Valkey management to Nais Console
      • 📚 Reference
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        • Upload assets to the CDN
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      • 📚 Reference
        • CDN Upload Action
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        • Create and manage configs in Console
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      • 🎯 How-To
        • Create and manage secrets in Console
        • Use a secret in your workload
        • Advanced: Secrets with binary data
      • 📚 Reference
    • Vulnerabilities
      • 🎯 How-To
        • Generate SBOM
      • 📚 Reference
    • Feature Toggling
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      • 🎯 How-To
        • Enable Leader Election
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      • Setup command line access
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    • naisdevice
      • 🎯 How-To
        • Install naisdevice
        • Troubleshooting naisdevice
        • Uninstall naisdevice
        • Update naisdevice
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CLI ¶

Everything about the nais CLI is available at cli.nais.io.

Last updated April 7, 2026
Created May 15, 2024
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