This section contains operational documentation for both SurrealDB Cloud and self-hosted deployments. These pages assume a database that already exists and concentrate on keeping it running, observable and up to date.
Instances
Create, connect to, scale, back up and monitor managed instances.
Organisations
Members, roles, invitations and billing for a team.
Enterprise
Single sign-on, centralised member management, and custom roles.
surrealctl
Manage instances and organisations from the command line.
Observability
Metrics, logs, traces and slow-query analysis.
Schema migration
Promote schema changes safely with SurrealKit.
Self-hosted
Run and operate SurrealDB on your own infrastructure.
Enterprise
SurrealDB Enterprise adds the controls a regulated deployment needs, including single sign-on, centralised member management, and custom roles. Self-hosted clusters can also run Enterprise Edition for FIPS-validated cryptography, distributed live queries, and audit logging.
Related sections
The full command surface for surrealctl, surreal and surqlfmt is in the CLI reference. The pages here cover what to run and when; the reference covers every flag.