Create a service

Timescale Cloud is a hosted, cloud-native TimescaleDB service that allows you to quickly spin up new TimescaleDB instances. You can try Timescale Cloud for free, no credit card required.

For installation instructions, and help getting your first service up and running, see the Timescale Cloud installation section.

Each Timescale Cloud service can have a single database. The database must be named tsdb. If you try to create an additional database you receive an error like this:

  2. ERROR:  tsdb_admin: database <DB_NAME> is not an allowed database name
  4. HINT:  Contact your administrator to configure the "tsdb_admin.allowed_databases"

If you need another database, you need to create a new service.

Where to next

Now that you have your first service up and running, you can check out the Timescale Cloud section in our documentation, and find out what you can do with it.

If you want to work through some tutorials to help you get up and running with TimescaleDB and time-series data, check out our tutorials section.

If you’re interested in learning more about pricing for Timescale Cloud, visit the TimescaleDB pricing calculator.

You can always contact us if you need help working something out, or if you want to have a chat.