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  • Tonic Ephemeral guide
  • About Tonic Ephemeral
  • Getting started with the Ephemeral free trial
  • Managing your Ephemeral account
  • Managing Databases
    • Viewing the list of databases
    • Starting a database
    • Changing the database configuration
    • Database configuration settings
      • Setting the required resources for a database
      • Setting the database expiration
      • Providing a custom configuration file
    • Connecting to a database
    • Resetting a database
    • Deactivating and reactivating databases
    • Managing auto snapshots
    • Tracking database activity
    • Deleting a database
  • Managing user snapshots
    • About user snapshots
    • Viewing the user snapshot list
    • Creating a user snapshot from an Ephemeral database
    • Creating a user snapshot from imported data
    • Editing a user snapshot
    • Creating a database from a user snapshot
    • Deleting a user snapshot
  • Installing and configuring Ephemeral
    • Ephemeral architecture
    • Configuring an allowlist for Ephemeral Cloud database connections
    • Installing a self-hosted instance of Ephemeral
      • System requirements
      • Deploying Ephemeral with Helm
    • Configuring database access on a self-hosted instance
    • Configuring tolerations and node selectors
    • Managing access to Ephemeral
      • Managing Ephemeral users
      • Enabling SSO on a self-hosted instance
        • Google
        • Okta
    • Setting the registry location for data volumes
    • Managing custom images
      • Creating, editing, and deleting custom images
      • Oracle image configuration
    • Configuring automatic deletion of snapshots
  • Monitoring and data collection
    • Monitoring your Ephemeral billed usage
    • Monitoring your disk storage
    • Data that Tonic.ai collects
  • Using the Ephemeral API
    • About the Ephemeral API
    • Configuring Ephemeral
    • Getting information about Ephemeral databases
    • Starting a database
    • Managing databases
    • Managing snapshots
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  • Using the quick start checklist to explore Ephemeral
  • Showing and hiding the checklist
  • Viewing details for a checklist task
  • Completing the checklist
  • Next steps after a free trial

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Getting started with the Ephemeral free trial

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On Ephemeral Cloud, each new Ephemeral account starts as a two-week free trial to allow you to get a feel for Ephemeral and how it works before you purchase it.

The free trial provides access to all of the Ephemeral features and functions. It does limit the allocated storage for your Ephemeral databases to 100 GB each.

Creating your free trial account

In Tonic Structural, when you choose to write data generation output to Ephemeral, an account is created for if you do not already have one.

To create an Ephemeral free trial account:

  1. Go to the .

  2. To use a corporate Google email address to create the account, click Create account using Google.

  3. Otherwise, to provide the account information:

    1. In the First Name and Last Name fields, type your first and last names.

    2. In the Email Address field, type your email address.

    3. In the Password field, type the password that you want to use for your Ephemeral account.

    4. In the Confirm Password field, type the password again.

  4. Click Create Account. Ephemeral sends an activation email to the email address that you provided.

  5. In the activation email, click Activate account. Ephemeral activates your account.

  6. On the Ephemeral login page, provide your email address and password, then click Log In. Ephemeral displays the use case selection panel.

  1. On the use case selection panel, click each use case that applies to you, then click Next. Ephemeral displays the Databases page, which for a new account displays options to import data, start a database, or display the list of databases for your organization.

Using the quick start checklist to explore Ephemeral

The quick start checklist highlights Ephemeral's main features.

  • Importing data from an external source

  • Starting a new database

  • Connecting to a database

  • Managing user snapshots

It also provides information about subsetting in Tonic Structural, which is one way to create a smaller set of data that you might use to create an Ephemeral database or user snapshot.

Showing and hiding the checklist

The checklist displays automatically when you first create your account.

You can close the checklist, for example, to ensure that you can view the entire Ephemeral page.

To reopen the checklist, in the Ephemeral heading, click Quick Start Checklist.

Viewing details for a checklist task

When you click a checklist entry, Ephemeral displays an overview panel for the task.

The overview panel provides a brief description of the task.

Ephemeral can also highlight the option to select in order to perform that task.

Completing the checklist

As you complete each task, Ephemeral marks the task as complete on the checklist.

When you complete all of the items, Ephemeral replaces the checklist with a panel to indicate that you finished the checklist. The panel includes a link to return to the checklist. It also contains a link to start a chat with the Tonic.ai sales team.

Next steps after a free trial

When the free trial period ends, you can no longer start a new database. Ephemeral also deactivates your existing databases.

Ephemeral signup page
Use case selection for an Ephemeral free trial account
Databases page for a new Ephemeral account
Quick Start Checklist in Ephemeral
Quick Start Checklist option in the Ephemeral navigation menu
Overview panel for a checklist item