Capability

Cloud

Liferay Cloud Platform provides the infrastructure and tooling necessary to simplify, secure, and deliver applications on Liferay DXP when using the SaaS or PaaS deployment approaches. Using Liferay’s Cloud infrastructure provides a secure, reliable, and scalable platform for building Liferay solutions.

The Liferay Cloud Platform includes DevOps CI/CD tools, automated backups, real-time logs, and much more.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
Example Configuration Files
Official Documentation
Example Configuration Files Different services in Liferay Cloud (such as the search and web server services) use configuration files to perform what you might be used to handling differently in an...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay Cloud Infrastructure
Official Documentation
Liferay Cloud Infrastructure Liferay Cloud is a flexible platform that combines a collection of key components to provide a robust, reliable, and manageable Liferay DXP implementation. This diagram...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay Cloud Data Center Locations
Official Documentation
Liferay Cloud Data Center Locations Liferay Cloud has a variety of available, regional data centers around the world to host customer environments. Liferay SaaS Data Centers These data centers are...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay Cloud Project Changes in Version 4
Official Documentation
Liferay Cloud Project Changes in Version 4 Several changes are made between version 3.x and 4.x of the Liferay Cloud stack, including where Docker image versions are defined for your services, the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay Cloud Version 5 Changes
Official Documentation
Liferay Cloud Version 5 Changes Liferay Cloud version 5 comes with several changes and new features: ModSecurity Capabilities with Nginx Improved Regional Persistence Prepare and Swap Backup...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Understanding Service Stack Versions
Official Documentation
Understanding Service Stack Versions The Liferay Cloud service stack represents the major version of all of the services in your Liferay Cloud environment. Each individual service may have a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Support and Troubleshooting
Official Documentation
Support and Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Tools and Resources Reading Liferay Cloud Service Logs Shell Access Troubleshooting Services Disaster Recovery Overview ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Upgrading to a High Availability Subscription
Official Documentation
Upgrading to a High Availability Subscription In many cases, the standard subscription plan for Liferay Cloud is sufficient to ensure quality performance for a live project. As your needs change,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay Cloud Support
Official Documentation
Liferay Cloud Support Liferay is committed to providing excellent service and customer experience. Liferay Cloud customers have several means to contact support, including opening a Support ticket...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay Cloud Support FAQs
Official Documentation
Liferay Cloud Support FAQs Here are the answers to common questions pertaining to Liferay Cloud Support. Why isn't Liferay Cloud open source? Liferay is an open-source company, with open-source...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay Cloud Maintenance and Release Schedule
Official Documentation
Liferay Cloud Maintenance and Release Schedule Liferay SaaS and PaaS both have a weekly maintenance and release schedule. Liferay Cloud uses a transparent and predictable release cadence to ensure...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Troubleshooting Tools and Resources
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting Tools and Resources When you have an issue with your site, you need tools to diagnose and resolve technical issues quickly. Liferay Cloud provides you with tools and resources for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Support Access
Official Documentation
Support Access Support Access is an optional setting that expedites troubleshooting by giving Liferay engineers direct access to a Liferay Cloud project environment. Liferay Cloud administrators...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Configuring Cross-Region Disaster Recovery
Official Documentation
Configuring Cross-Region Disaster Recovery Liferay Cloud provides two ways for customers to take advantage of the Disaster Recovery (DR) procedure in the case of major incidents: Automatic Disaster...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Disaster Recovery Overview
Official Documentation
Disaster Recovery Overview Liferay Cloud offers two strategies for disaster recovery: Automatic and Cross-Region. Automatic Disaster Recovery Strategy Liferay Cloud performs automatic disaster...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Enabling Glowroot on PaaS
Official Documentation
Enabling Glowroot on PaaS Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA100+ Glowroot is included with Liferay in the /opt/liferay/glowroot folder. If you're running Liferay in a clustered environment, enable...
Published Date: Aug 10, 2024 3:47 PM
Liferay Cloud Platform Status
Official Documentation
Liferay Cloud Platform Status The Liferay Cloud Platform is comprised of multiple systems. Users can view the status of Liferay Cloud Platform systems, incident history, and planned maintenance...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Maintenance and Downtime
Official Documentation
Maintenance and Downtime Sometimes, big changes in the underlying infrastructure of a project may cause downtime. When planning for these changes, you can enable maintenance mode to redirect...
Published Date: Apr 29, 2025 6:15 PM
Reading Liferay Cloud Service Logs
Official Documentation
Reading Liferay Cloud Service Logs Environment logs are crucial for diagnosing and resolving technical issues in a project. Liferay Cloud provides a variety of environment logs that users can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Self-Healing
Official Documentation
Self-Healing The self-healing functionality of Liferay Cloud detects if a service or application has become unresponsive and automatically initiates procedures to recover the unresponsive service....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Troubleshooting Services
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting Services Services are the core of a Liferay Cloud environment. This article covers troubleshooting techniques that can be used to investigate and address issues that may arise with...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Shell Access
Official Documentation
Shell Access The command-line tools in Liferay Cloud contribute to the developer's workflow by delivering speed, control, traceability, scripting, and automation capabilities. Shell access makes it...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Tuning Security Settings
Official Documentation
Tuning Security Settings Here are a list of best practices for tightening and maintaining your Liferay PaaS project's security, including networking practices, data security, and general security...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Using SSO with Liferay Cloud
Official Documentation
Using SSO with Liferay Cloud Customers may use their SAML 2.0 compliant single sign-on Identity Providers to authenticate users with the Liferay Cloud platform. Here is the process to enable this...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Information Security and Liferay Cloud
Official Documentation
Information Security and Liferay Cloud Liferay takes security on the cloud very seriously and has published the following documents on our compliance with the SOC 2 and ISO 27001:2013 standards: ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Managing Secure Environment Variables with Secrets
Official Documentation
Managing Secure Environment Variables with Secrets Secrets allow you to securely store variables for any environment within Liferay Cloud. Whereas any user with permission to view your Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Web Application Firewall
Official Documentation
Web Application Firewall Liferay Cloud 5.x.x Liferay Cloud includes a web application firewall called ModSecurity. It inspects requests sent to the web server against a predefined set of custom...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Updating Services in Liferay PaaS
Official Documentation
Updating Services in Liferay PaaS Liferay PaaS provides a robust framework for achieving a highly efficient Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) strategy. With Git and Jenkins...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Automatically Deploying CI Service Builds
Official Documentation
Automatically Deploying CI Service Builds With Liferay PaaS, you can use webhooks to automatically trigger Jenkins builds for changes pushed or merged to your project's Git repository (e.g.,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Configuring Persistent File Storage Volumes
Official Documentation
Configuring Persistent File Storage Volumes Administrators can configure the volumes for their services in Liferay PaaS depending on their deployment type (Deployment or StatefulSet). Volumes can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Deploying Changes via the Liferay Cloud Console
Official Documentation
Deploying Changes via the Liferay Cloud Console This tutorial walks through the process of adding a portal property to the Liferay service, triggering a CI build with a pull request, and deploying...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Ignoring Files and Folders
Official Documentation
Ignoring Files and Folders Liferay Cloud allows subscribers to determine which files and folders should be ignored before deploying a service. This is done by creating a .lcpignore file and placed...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Understanding Deployment Types
Official Documentation
Understanding Deployment Types The deployment type of a service determines many different facets of how it functions, including performance, memory usage, and access to files or volumes. Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Deploying Changes via the CLI Tool
Official Documentation
Deploying Changes via the CLI Tool With the CLI tool, you can directly deploy local project changes without triggering a Jenkins build or using the Liferay Cloud Console. This tutorial walks...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Restarting Jenkins Stages
Official Documentation
Restarting Jenkins Stages The CI service can be configured to preserve Jenkins stashes. You can then use the stashes to restart specific stages in a Jenkins build. Preserving Jenkins Stashes Use...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Understanding Deployment Strategies
Official Documentation
Understanding Deployment Strategies The deployment strategy of a service determines how new versions will be initialized. Liferay PaaS provides two deployment strategies for its services:...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Analytics Cloud APIs
Official Documentation
Analytics Cloud APIs You can use headless APIs to interface with Analytics Cloud. Here are resources to help you understand and integrate these APIs to enhance your ability to manage content.
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Exporting Data
Official Documentation
Exporting Data Various analytics data can be accessed through the sites dashboard and the individuals dashboard. Analytics data can also be fetched and exported using Analytics Cloud's APIs....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Authentication
Official Documentation
Authentication An access token is necessary for making API calls to Liferay Analytics Cloud. Navigate to Settings → APIs to generate an access token. Choose the duration (e.g. 30 days, 6 months, 1...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Querying Data
Official Documentation
Querying Data The root endpoint of Liferay Analytics Cloud is . You can get the list of all data types endpoints by requesting a GET to the above URL. Try with curl curl -i -L -H "Authorization:...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Resource Types and Structure
Official Documentation
Resource Types and Structure Properties activeIndividualsCount (Number): Number of active individuals belonging to the account. dateCreated (Date): Date the account was created in the system. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Connecting Liferay DXP to Analytics Cloud
Official Documentation
Connecting Liferay DXP to Analytics Cloud Liferay DXP 2024.Q1+/Portal GA112+ Liferay DXP and Analytics Cloud connect via a secure, encrypted token. This token is generated by Analytics Cloud and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Connecting Liferay DXP 7.3 to Analytics Cloud
Official Documentation
Connecting Liferay DXP 7.3 to Analytics Cloud Liferay DXP 7.3 U30+ The steps to connect Liferay DXP 7.3 to Analytics Cloud differ slightly from the steps to connect Liferay DXP 7.4. Liferay DXP...
Published Date: Sep 18, 2024 3:10 PM
Multi-Factor Authentication
Official Documentation
Multi-Factor Authentication Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is required for all Analytics Cloud users. This additional layer of security helps to protect users from cyberattacks such as phishing...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Getting Started
Official Documentation
Getting Started Welcome to Liferay Analytics Cloud! Collecting analytics data is a crucial part of any business. There are many different tools out there but not all provide high value. It's not...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Reference
Official Documentation
Reference Multi-Factor Authentication Metrics Description Downloading Reports
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Troubleshooting
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Analytics Cloud Activation Troubleshooting Data Sources
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Troubleshooting Analytics Cloud Activation
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting Analytics Cloud Activation There are a few steps that must be performed in order to begin using Analytics Cloud. If these steps have not yet been performed, you may encounter an...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Troubleshooting Data Sources
Official Documentation
Troubleshooting Data Sources Misconfigured environments or data sources can prevent or disrupt access to Liferay DXP data sources. Here's how to troubleshoot DXP data source issues. No Network...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Data Control and Privacy
Official Documentation
Data Control and Privacy Analytics Cloud provides administrative tools for managing individual data and privacy. Use these tools to assist you in meeting General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Managing Data Sources
Official Documentation
Managing Data Sources After connecting Liferay DXP to your workspace, you can view and make changes to them from the settings page. Navigate to Settings → Workspace Data → Data Sources. See the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Workspace Settings
Official Documentation
Workspace Settings In settings, view and manage your Analytics Cloud workspace. Click the settings link at the bottom left of the UI. Invite other users and manage access to the workspace. View...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Workspace Data
Official Documentation
Workspace Data In settings view, and manage the data sources that sync with Analytics Cloud. Click the settings link at the bottom left of the UI. Manage API access by creating or revoking access...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Definitions
Official Documentation
Definitions There are four types of definitions: Individuals: attributes of individuals accessing your site Events: default and custom actions that happen on your site Event Attributes:...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Managing API Access
Official Documentation
Managing API Access Liferay Analytics Cloud supports access to its analytics data via a set of API endpoints. You can access and integrate the data either through RESTful APIs or data export. Some...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Contact Sync Data Reference
Official Documentation
Contact Sync Data Reference When you sync contacts from your Liferay Instance, you can choose different fields from the Contacts table and the User table. Fields are selected from the contacts...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Managing Properties
Official Documentation
Managing Properties After creating a property it can be managed and modified from the Workspace Settings section of Analytics Cloud. Navigate to Settings → Workspace Settings → Properties. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Managing Workspaces
Official Documentation
Managing Workspaces You can view and change your workspace settings from the settings page. Navigate to Settings → Workspace Settings → Workspace. Workspace Name: The name of your analytics...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Managing Users
Official Documentation
Managing Users If you are the workspace Owner or have been assigned the Admin permission, you can invite and manage users. Here's how to bring up the User Management page: Click on Settings in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM
Scoping Sites and Individuals Using Properties
Official Documentation
Scoping Sites and Individuals Using Properties A Property allows you to define and associate a label to a single or multiple sites. This allows you to aggregate the analytics data for all...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:45 PM