Disaster recovery that you can sleep on
Rest easy knowing Northflank automates snapshotting, backup storage, and other essential aspects of DR.
Both stateful and stateless apps benefit from Northflank’s included alerting, team spaces and automated failure recovery.
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Failover to replicas quickly and securely
Uptime & recovery
Your DevOps team deserves a better database experience. Set up and tear down databases from Northflank’s addons page for a managed DB experience. Replication and other essentials are configurable in a few clicks. Securely generate connection credentials in seconds.
Auto-magic backups
Restore an addon to a former state from any backup you have made in the past. Perform optimised backups using each addon’s native dump feature. Use incremental disk snapshots for optimised backup & recovery with cloud provider native storage (CSI).
Backup schedules
Define schedules and perform backups as often as you need them. Configure details like backup retention period from Northflank’s web UI / CLI / API.
High availability & replication
Configure high availability using multi‑replica services and health‑checks. Ensure healthy containers are always serving requests during deploy and steady state operation. Enable replication or create a new database by forking a database you already have running.
Health checks
Configure HTTP(S), TCP, and CMD liveness/readiness health checks to monitor the status of your deployed services.
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Observability
For developers to be successful, you need observability. Northflank automatically grants monitoring, logging, alerting, and other observability essentials to every service.
Real-time log tailing & metrics
Debug your builds, deployments, jobs, addons, backups, and restores in real-time by watching your logs live. Keep track of how your builds and deployments are performing with detailed metrics such as CPU & memory usage, number of requests, and etc.
Plug-and-play logging & metrics
Log sinks allow you to forward logs from containers to your preferred log aggregator or observability platform. Forward specific projects or your whole account at once. Northflank’s included logging and metrics solutions store data for up to 60 days.
Notification integrations
Send notifications to Slack, Discord, Webhooks, or Teams. Use platform alerts to receive notifications when builds, backups, job runs, billing, or autoscaling events occur on the platform. Use infrastructure alerts to receive notifications when resource usage spikes, or your apps and databases are crashing.
Connect and investigate when you need to
Live debugging
Sometimes you just need to SSH in and see what’s happening for yourself. For those cases, Northflank has you covered.
Shell access
Use shell access to debug and troubleshoot your containers (in development and production). Execute commands within a container and view the environment, filesystem, and processes. Connect to private database endpoints locally using the Northflank CLI proxy.
Real-time multiplayer
The Northflank interface updates in real-time to reflect changes made by you or by your teammates. No more refreshing pages to fetch updates.
Real-time diff views
When editing secret variables or infrastructure as code, live diffs are shown to prevent overwriting changes when your colleagues are editing the same item.
Jump between teams
Group your cloud resources by project, team, and organisation. Projects can be deployed to a specific region or worker cluster. Search and jump between teams and projects in a matter of clicks. All your resources will be loaded and accessible instantly.
Northflank is way easier than gluing a bunch of tools together to spin up apps and databases. It’s the ideal platform to deploy containers in our cloud account, avoiding the brain damage of big cloud and Kubernetes. It’s more powerful and flexible than traditional PaaS – all within our VPC. Northflank has become a go-to way to deploy workloads at Sentry.
Optimised for Developer Happiness
A developer experience like no other
Northflank simplifies complex infrastructure, providing a robust control plane with real-time updates. Access controls are intuitive, and everything is designed to keep developers focused on what they do best: writing code.
Experience, trust and scale
You’re in good company
Northflank is a robust, scalable platform built by and trusted by developers worldwide since 2019. Whether you’re running 1 or 1,000 services within a single project, we seamlessly support your workload and infrastructure requirements.
1.5M+
Monthy containers
100B+
Requests processed
300+
Availability zones
25k+
Developers in production
$24M+
Raised in funding
Remove the pain of late night pages
Challenges for disaster recovery
If you never recover, it’s just a disaster. Stateful workloads need alerts and clean UX to help you identify failure conditions. Redeploying a database is error prone and challenging for even the most seasoned admin.
Backups, backups, backups
Securely creating, storing, and testing backups is a pain. Each microservice needs to be backed by its own data store or relational DB. When databases run without automation, it’s not just a challenge, it’s impossible to manage backups properly. Northflank automates database management with proven solutions that you can find under add-ons.
Accessibility vs security, FIGHT!
How do you make databases and data stores accessible to SREs, while also keeping them secure? Your data in the Cloud needs to be encrypted and secure, while remaining accessible during disasters and debugging sessions. Northflank sets up databases with secure defaults, and hardens data-in-transit with features like mTLS and RBAC.
Failures in stateless apps
In the Cloud, every service you depend on is constantly at risk of failure. Even stateless apps like NEXT.js need a recovery plan. How do you ensure each app is instrumented for observability? Northflank automatically instruments deployments, and includes solutions for alerting and mapping ownership of services by team.
Northflank is the first batteries-included developer platform that doesn’t suffer from the invisible ceilings that hover over its competitors. We could have built all of Slack with Northflank – and we would have, had it been available.
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