Managing Connections

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      This section describes how to connect the .NET Analytics SDK to an Analytics cluster. It contains best practices as well as information on TLS/SSL and advanced connection options, and a sub-page on troubleshooting remote connections during devlopment.

      Our Getting Started pages cover the basics of making a connection to an Enterprise Analytics cluster. This page is a wider look at the topic.

      Connecting to a Cluster

      The examples below use these imports:

      using Couchbase.AnalyticsClient;
      using Couchbase.AnalyticsClient.HTTP;
      using Couchbase.AnalyticsClient.Options;

      A connection to an Enterprise Analytics cluster is represented by a Cluster object. A Cluster provides access to databases, scopes, and collections, as well as various Analytics services and management interfaces. The simplest way to create a Cluster object is to call Cluster.Create() with a connection string, username, and password:

      var credential = Credential.Create("username", "password");
      
      var cluster = Cluster.Create(
          connectionString: "https://analytics.my-couchbase.example.com:18095",
          credential: credential);
      Capella’s root certificate is not signed by a well known Certificate Authority. However, the certificate is bundled with the SDK, and is automatically trusted unless you specify a different certificate to trust.

      Connection Strings

      Typically, an Enterprise Analytics cluster will be behind a load balancer, and you will be making a connection over TLS — so the port used will be 443. This is the defaut for the SDK, so port 443 does not need to be specified: https://analytics.example.com.

      You must specify the schema — either https:// (for TLS) or http:// (for insecure connections — perhaps on a development machine) in the connection string. The default port for insecure connections is port 80.

      If you’re connecting to a cluster directly, without a load balancer, you can specify the port in the connection string: https://analytics.example.com:18095. For a standalone Analytics cluster, the port is usually 18095 (or 8095 for an insecure connection). Make sure to check with your administrator.

      Client Settings Parameters

      Connection strings can also include client settings, which will override any that are also set in the code.

      Connection string with two parameters
      https://analytics.example.com?timeout.connect_timeout=30s&timeout.query_timeout=2m

      The full list of recognized parameters is documented in the client settings reference.

      Connection string with two parameters
      http://localhost:8095?timeout.connect_timeout=30s&timeout.query_timeout=2m

      The full list of recognized parameters is documented in the client settings reference.

      Local Development

      We strongly recommend that the client and server are in the same LAN-like environment (for example, the same AWS Region).