Couchbase Capella Release Notes

Capella can now securely deploy Couchbase Server using a Couchbase-managed cloud powered by Azure. If you are using or plan to use our self-service trial with Azure, you can upgrade to a sales-assisted or paying account at any time.

Capella App Services is a fully managed application backend that brings the power of Couchbase Mobile's industry-leading offline-first data sync capability to Capella. Free self-service trials are also available. Check out the App Services Getting Started guide for more details.

Couchbase Capella can now securely deploy databases using a Couchbase-managed cloud powered by Microsoft Azure. Paid subscriptions and additional regions will be available in the near future.

To try Capella with Azure today, see the self-service trial.

Capella App Services free self-service trial now supports Azure. Developers can try out App Services on Azure for free for a 30-day trial period to build mobile, desktop, and embedded apps with offline-first data sync capabilities. App Services brings the power of Couchbase Mobile as-a-service offering to Azure-hosted databases.

App Services will be generally available in Azure in the near future.

We have included 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24 hour incremental options to the Set Weekly Schedule bucket backup setting. Any previous Set Weekly Schedule options have now been removed.

The Set Daily Schedule bucket backup setting has been deprecated for new Capella users and databases. However, Set Daily Schedule is still available if you are already using this setting on existing databases.

For more information, see Configure Scheduled Backups.

When you set a Weekly schedule, you can now choose a cost-optimized retention policy for bucket backups. You can do this by selecting a new Cost Optimized Retention checkbox option. When selected, the cost optimized retention policy applies to your bucket backups.

For more information, see Cost Optimized Retention Policy.

Couchbase Capella has an updated UI. Highlights include:

Capella now supports Couchbase Server 7.1.3 — the most recent version of Couchbase Server. This version includes the following features:

Secure and convenient Single Sign-On authentication for users is now available.

For more information about SSO for Capella, see Capella UI Authentication | Federated & SSO Authentication. To configure your identity provider with Capella, see Add Federated & SSO Authentication.

AWS Private Endpoints allow a Capella database to be offered as a Private Endpoint. Private Endpoints have many benefits:

For more information about AWS Private Endpoints, see Add an AWS PrivateLink Connection.

Audit logging at the database level is now possible within Couchbase Capella. Users can configure granular Couchbase Server audit logging down to the access of individual documents, then export these audit logs into their own systems on-demand. This complements the existing Capella-level audit logging that has always been in place, which can now also be exported via API.

This functionality is available only to databases with an Enterprise service plan.

Capella HIPAA-compliant controls, which have been audited by an independent third-party auditor, help organizations manage and store protected health information (PHI).

HIPAA compliance currently excludes App Services, which will follow-on in a future release.

See the Cloud Trust Center for additional information on the security controls and compliance of the platform.

App Services deployments will retain deleted documents in the server database for a period of 60 days following deletion.

This allows disconnected clients to sync down deleted revisions when they come back online, anytime within the 60 day period.

This only impacts clusters with linked app services deployed after this release.

Capella App Services is now generally available on GCP in supported regions worldwide. With this release, we bring the power of Couchbase Mobile as-a-service offering to GCP hosted clusters.

Capella can now securely deploy Couchbase Server using a Couchbase-managed cloud powered by GCP. If you are using or plan to use our self-service trial with GCP, you can upgrade to a sales-assisted or paying account at any time. For more information on the configuration and region options available to GCP clusters, see the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) reference page.

Couchbase Capella is now available in Sydney and Stockholm bringing Capella to a total of 15 AWS regions. You can select these new options as your region when creating a new cluster.

Capella now automatically notifies you about upcoming upgrades and maintenance jobs on clusters you manage. For each cluster, a new Maintenance tab enables you to reschedule upcoming maintenance jobs, set your preferred maintenance times, and learn about what is new in Capella. For more information, see Clusters Overview and Upgrading a Cluster.

The "Create Cluster" screen now makes pricing more clear visually, allowing customers to see the dollar equivalent for on-demand — so making it easy for users to know how much their desired cluster will cost them.

Head to the Connect section of the Clusters screen to see SDK connection code for Kotlin, Ruby, and Scala. We have updated all of the other code samples to the latest SDK releases — which are now shipped with the Capella client certificate included, for fuss-free connection.

We have completed a Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II compliance audit for Capella. This audit validates that we have been working according to our security and governance controls to effectively maintain the security, confidentiality, and availability of Capella .

As a industry standard in data security, SOC 2 evaluates a technology service provider’s ability to securely manage customer data. To achieve a SOC 2 Type II designation, organizations undergo a rigorous audit by an independent third party that analyzes the following trust services criteria: security, availability, and confidentiality.

Couchbase Capella is now available in Singapore, bringing Capella to a total of 11 regions. You can select "Singapore" as your region when creating a new cluster.

The Nodes tab is now available on Capella clusters providing visibility into the state of each node in the cluster. This new tab allows you to easily obtain hostnames of specific nodes and to see the overall health of each node at a glance.

The Cluster screen is now accessible while a cluster is scaling after being reconfigured or upgraded. Cluster data tools such as the Documents Editor and Query Workbench can be used throughout, and other screens are available in a read-only mode.

Backup, restore, and flush events are now tracked within the activity log, providing increased visibility into key events that affect your clusters.

Database credentials that are generated with read access to all buckets now allow users to access the metrics endpoint within their Couchbase Server cluster. For details on how you can use this to integrate your Capella clusters with Prometheus, see Set up Prometheus to Consume Couchbase Metrics.

Capella customers can see information for each of their credit plan purchases providing awareness of consumption. This enables customers to take action before credit plan credits expire or are consumed and manage their spending more effectively.

It is now possible to change the name of a project after it has been created.

Bucket flushes now require a confirmation step in the UI.

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) is specified during the creation of a cluster in Capella and cannot be changed afterward. To ensure that CIDR are unique and avoid overlaps, Capella now checks that CIDR is not already in use within a customer’s tenant.

To use the Private Networking feature, where the virtual private cloud (VPC) of a cluster is joined with that of a customer’s application, or when clusters have XDCR between each other, the CIDR of each VPC cannot overlap with each other. This requirement for CIDR originates from the cloud provider.

Capella now offers fully-featured configuration and options. This enables you to securely deploy Couchbase Server using an entirely Couchbase-managed cloud powered by AWS. If you are using or plan to use our self-service trial, you can now upgrade to a sales-assisted or paying account at any time. Three plans are available providing different levels of features and support services to match your needs. For more information, see Support Plans.

More Couchbase 7.0+ features have been added to Capella. The Analytics Workbench and Eventing Service now support scopes and collections. The Analytics Workbench can now create links to S3. These features are only available if you are using the Developer Pro or Enterprise plans, and are using Couchbase 7.0+ clusters hosted by Couchbase.

XDCR (Cross Data Center Replication) is now available for Couchbase hosted clusters. This update includes support for scopes and collections with collection mapping, quality of service (QoS) options, and a more streamlined setup process.

XDCR for Couchbase hosted clusters supports the following:

Capella’s Backup and Restore feature now provides more granular capabilities and a better user experience. Using an improved user interface, you can now trigger on-demand backups and restores by the bucket. Weekly and daily backup schedules can also be set by the bucket. Previous backups are now more easily accessible, show more detail, and are better manageable with manual deletion. Only users with the Project Owner role can access backups.

Email alerts can now be sent to you ensuring you don’t miss important events in your deployment. Emails include descriptions and visualizations of the event, and a link navigating you directly to the alert in the Capella Control Plane. Alerts are controlled at user account level.

Private networking is now supported for clusters hosted by Couchbase Capella. Private networks provide an added layer of security and better network performance for organizations by avoiding communication over the Internet. By setting up a private network, your application can interact with Capella over a private connection, resulting in a reduction in latency and data egress costs. For more information about private networking support in Capella, see Configure a Private Network and try it using our free self-service trial.

All managed clusters can now import your data in JSON and CSV file formats, from a local machine or URL, for files under 5 GB. When importing, you can easily specify a collection mapping for the import with previews. This feature is available to try in our free self-service trial. If you already have a trial cluster deployed, you need to launch a new trial cluster to see this new functionality. For more information about importing your data, see Import Data.

All new clusters hosted by Couchbase now use Couchbase Server 7.0.2.

Going forward, Couchbase’s database-as-a-service (DBaaS) will be known as Couchbase Capella, previously Couchbase Cloud. Capella adds the ability to deploy our DBaaS in Couchbase’s Cloud Account, making it easier and faster to get started.

Capella now offers the ability to securely deploy Couchbase Server using an entirely Couchbase-managed cloud powered by AWS. This free self-service trial lets you sign up in seconds and deploy a cluster in under three minutes. The trial also includes 50GB of storage. Sign up and learn how to get started.

This release brings many Couchbase 7.0+ features to Capella. With the introduction of scopes and collections, Capella clusters using Couchbase Server 7.0+ store documents in a collection, which are contained in a scope, which is in a bucket. This provides multiple tiers of data hierarchy to make it easier to map a relational data model to Couchbase 7.0+. A default scope and default collection are used when a named scope and collection are not available or has not yet been created. In addition to scopes and collections, other updates include the ability to run queries as distributed multi-document ACID transactions, use the ADVISE statement, build indexes concurrently, and more. Note that these features are only available to clusters using Couchbase Server 7.0+, which only includes clusters created through our Couchbase-managed cloud offering.

The Activity Log provides an audit trail of events that bring transparency to user activity and cluster performance. This has been enhanced to include a more complete timeline of activity that includes a summary of the activity, the resource affected, the actor, date and time, and actionable recommendations. Additionally, smart filtering has been added that allows you to narrow down activity events based on cloud, cluster, severity, and tag (activity event type).

Alerts have also been enhanced. Active alerts are now shown as an alert banner at the top of all cluster screens for the affected cluster. These banner alerts include severity, count, and time information about the event. Alerts also include a detailed description of why the alert was triggered, recommended remediation guidance, and in some cases direct actions to resolve the issue.

The new metrics dashboard is a customizable area that makes it easy to discover and trend cluster performance and identify outliers quickly using charts. It also provides zoom-in-on-runtime behavior through a full suite of time controls and drag-to-select thresholds.

There have been many improvements to the overall experience of using Couchbase Capella. You will see changes to the user management experience to facilitate improved user management, UX improvements to various tools such as the documents editor, additions to monitoring and alerting capabilities, as well as many improvements to quickly and easily launch and manage deployments that use your own cloud and those that use the Couchbase-managed cloud.

The roles-based user management system in Capella has been updated to make it more intuitive and enable easy management of user permissions at the project level. Organizations and projects still exist, but their user roles have been made more granular and easy to understand. See Organization Roles and Project Roles for more information about the new user roles.

Database users are now database credentials. Database credentials are independent of users and allow access to cluster data. They can only be viewed, created, and managed by members of a project with the appropriate project role.

To see information about how this change affects existing users, see the Migration to New User Management reference page.

The Couchbase Cloud APIs enable you to automate many of the administrative operations using secure RESTful APIs. Couchbase Cloud APIs contain functionality to create and delete clusters, buckets, and database users, as well as list clouds, manage projects, and more. For more information on the Couchbase Cloud Public API, see Overview of the Public API.

Enhanced import functionality enables you to migrate data to Couchbase Cloud more easily and in new ways. Using the new Import Tools interface, you can now import JSON (lines, list, and archive) and CSV files into Couchbase Cloud from a local machine using your browser or manually using a cURL command provided by the API. Keys for each document extracted from a CSV row or JSON list flat file can be auto-generated (UUID) or specified using a Generated Key Name Expression that follows the same syntax used by the cbimport utility.

When creating an import, you also have the option to select from additional configuration options. These options include Skip Documents, Limit Documents, Ignore Fields, Infer Field Types (CSV only), and Omit Empty Fields (CSV only).

For more information and how to use the enhanced import functionality, visit Import Data.

Improvements made to the sign-up flow for Couchbase Cloud better guide you through the process and allow you to get signed up as quickly and easily as possible. To sign up for Couchbase Cloud, visit Sign Up for Couchbase Cloud.

Couchbase Cloud is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region. For a complete list of supported AWS regions, see Cloud Provider Requirements for AWS.

Private networks provide an added layer of security for organizations by avoiding communication over the Internet. By setting up a private network, your application can interact with Couchbase Cloud over a private connection, resulting in significant reduction in latency and egress cost. Refer to the documentation for more information on configuring a private network.

Couchbase Cloud can now be discovered, transacted, and deployed directly via the Azure Marketplace.

The Couchbase Cloud REST APIs, currently in restricted BETA, enable you to automate many of the administrative operations using secure REST APIs. Specifically, this release of the Cloud APIs contains functionality that enables you to deploy and destroy clusters, buckets, and database users, and to list clouds and to manage projects.

We’ve integrated the support workflow with the core application so you can perform actions such as the following from the Couchbase Cloud Control Plane:

Full-text Search (FTS) indexes are now highly available with the ability to configure replicas via the Control Plane. And you can now configure partitions for better performance.

Expansion of disk storage on Azure to a maximum size of 16TB, increases aggregate max IOPs for higher performance and capacity.

Couchbase Cloud on Azure is now available in the West Central Region of Germany (Frankfurt).

This release expands the choice for Cloud providers by adding support for Microsoft Azure and will be available globally across North America, Europe, and Asia. For a complete list of supported regions, see Cloud Provider Requirements for Microsoft Azure.

With the introduction of Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) for Couchbase Cloud, users can choose to add another layer of security by requiring a one-time passcode to be used in conjunction with the password to log in to the Couchbase Cloud Control Plane.

The Cluster Overview screen has been improved to provide more visibility into node and database health.

This releases standardizes the list of available AWS compute instances to be consistent across instance families. The expanded instance selection now includes: m5.xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5.16xlarge, r5.8xlarge, and c5.12xlarge.

The Analytics Service provides a parallel data-management capability that enables you to run complex analytical queries. It supports large join, set, aggregation, and grouping operations, any of which may result in long running queries, high CPU usage, high memory consumption, and/or excessive network latency due to data fetching and cross node coordination.

The Eventing Service provides a framework to operate on changes to data in real time and streamline your business workflows.

Events are changes to data in the Couchbase cluster. Couchbase Eventing Functions, also referred to as Functions or Handlers, offer a computing paradigm that developers can use to handle data changes. In the Couchbase cluster, you can use the Functions to process and respond to data-changes according to an Event-Condition-Action model.

By signing up for a 30-day free trial of Couchbase Cloud, you can deploy the Quick Start 30-day Trial template that is ideal to evaluate all Couchbase services.

When an issue is automatically detected within a Couchbase Cloud-managed cluster, the Couchbase Cloud UI displays the details of the issue and enables you to be better informed about the overall health of the cluster and provides an option to contact Support with the details of the issue.

The Search Service — also referred to as Full Text Search (or FTS) — provides extensive capabilities for natural-language querying. Deploying the Search Service on a cluster allows you to create, manage, and query specially purposed indexes that enable Google-like search capabilities on JSON documents within a bucket.

For more information about purchasing Couchbase Cloud through the AWS Marketplace, please contact Couchbase Sales. You can also refer to the Couchbase Cloud Credits documentation for additional information regarding supported payment methods.