Improve the Configure plugins page and document Fleet management #2627
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Do we need to add a label or some sort of comment about the version from which fleet management is available? |
Good question. At first I was going to say "no", as it is accessible via Aura. But now I think we need to add labels or mentions of Neo4j server versions. |
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Related to @renetapopova 's question:
Since only the last couple of Neo4j versions (since 2025.07.0 and 5.26.10) have the fleet management plugin bundled (it is new), most of the customers would need to download for older versions of Neo4j. We should consider adding some words to https://neo4j.com/docs/aura/fleet-management/setup/#_download_the_plugin for the case that the Neo4j version is recent enough so that downloading and installing is not needed. Also, there maybe be updated to the fleet management plugin in the future, so that also the bundled versions must be updated. |
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@alexnb hey! |
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| If you want to use your own plugins, ensure that you add them to the designated _plugins_ directory. | ||
| This directory serves as the central location where Neo4j looks for and loads the plugins at startup. | ||
| Neo4j Community Edition (CE) comes with a range of pre-installed products, such as Gen AI, Graph Data Science, and Fleet management in the _products_ directory and the APOC Core jar file in the _labs_ directory. |
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Do we want to list all the available plugins or just part of them? I believe, GraphQL should be mentioned as well.
Also, we mention Neo Semantics and Graph algorithms in the table below.
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It seems that CE doesn't come with a bundled GDS plugin:
On a self-managed Neo4j Server you need to install and configure GDS manually.
If you have the Neo4j Enterprise Edition, you will find the GDS plugin bundled within the Neo4j Server distribution. The GDS plugin is located in the products directory. This is the Bundled installation option.
If you are using the Neo4j Community Edition, you must download GDS manually from the Neo4j Deployment Center. This is the Custom installation option.
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This is not true. The distribution that I downloaded has the GDS jar files in the product folder.
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hmm, interesting. You're right. CE contains the GDS plugin. But at the same time, if you visit the Deployment centre, you'll read: "Neo4j Community Edition package and the open source Community Edition of the Graph Data Science Library are available as separate downloads."
I'm totally confused. I asked Nicola about all GDS plugins
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As a side note, we don't usually document plugin's functionality in the Ops manual. Bloom, GDS, GraphQL, etc. have their own docsets. Could we just refer to the Aura docs? |
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@NataliaIvakina Hey!
This is documented here: https://neo4j.com/docs/aura/fleet-management/overview/ I think this link is also part of this PR.
No, Aura account is a requirement. |
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