> Full SurrealDB documentation index: https://surrealdb.com/docs/llms.txt

# Manage

Running SurrealDB in production: managed instances and organisations. Billing, the surrealctl CLI, observability, schema migration and self-hosting.

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](/docs/manage/instances.md) - Create, connect to, scale, back up and monitor managed instances.

- [Organisations](/docs/manage/organisations.md) - Members, roles, invitations and billing for a team.

- [surrealctl](/docs/manage/surrealctl.md) - Manage instances and organisations from the command line.

- [Observability](/docs/manage/observability.md) - Metrics, logs, traces and slow-query analysis.

- [Schema migration](/docs/manage/schema-migration.md) - Promote schema changes safely with SurrealKit.

- [Self-hosted](/docs/manage/self-hosted.md) - Run and operate SurrealDB on your own infrastructure.

## Enterprise

[SurrealDB Enterprise](/docs/manage/enterprise.md) adds the controls a regulated deployment needs, including FIPS-validated cryptography and single sign-on.

## Related sections

The full command surface for `surrealctl`, `surreal` and `surqlfmt` is in the [CLI reference](/docs/reference/cli.md). The pages here cover what to run and when; the reference covers every flag.