Warning: the names of some of these environment variables will be changed at some point in the near future.
This page lists the environment variables used by graph-node
and what effect
they have. Some environment variables can be used instead of command line flags.
Those are not listed here, please consult graph-node --help
for details on
those.
ETHEREUM_REORG_THRESHOLD
: Maximum expected reorg size, if a larger reorg happens, subgraphs might process inconsistent data. Defaults to 250.ETHEREUM_POLLING_INTERVAL
: how often to poll Ethereum for new blocks (in ms, defaults to 500ms)GRAPH_ETHEREUM_TARGET_TRIGGERS_PER_BLOCK_RANGE
: The ideal amount of triggers to be processed in a batch. If this is too small it may cause too many requests to the ethereum node, if it is too large it may cause unreasonably expensive calls to the ethereum node and excessive memory usage (defaults to 100).ETHEREUM_TRACE_STREAM_STEP_SIZE
:graph-node
queries traces for a given block range when a subgraph defines call handlers or block handlers with a call filter. The value of this variable controls the number of blocks to scan in a single RPC request for traces from the Ethereum node. Defaults to 50.DISABLE_BLOCK_INGESTOR
: set totrue
to disable block ingestion. Leave unset or set tofalse
to leave block ingestion enabled.ETHEREUM_BLOCK_BATCH_SIZE
: number of Ethereum blocks to request in parallel. Also limits other parallel requests such such as trace_filter. Defaults to 10.GRAPH_ETHEREUM_MAX_BLOCK_RANGE_SIZE
: Maximum number of blocks to scan for triggers in each request (defaults to 1000).GRAPH_ETHEREUM_MAX_EVENT_ONLY_RANGE
: Maximum range size foreth.getLogs
requests that dont filter on contract address, only event signature (defaults to 500).GRAPH_ETHEREUM_JSON_RPC_TIMEOUT
: Timeout for Ethereum JSON-RPC requests.GRAPH_ETHEREUM_REQUEST_RETRIES
: Number of times to retry JSON-RPC requests made against Ethereum. This is used for requests that will not fail the subgraph if the limit is reached, but will simply restart the syncing step, so it can be low. This limit guards against scenarios such as requesting a block hash that has been reorged. Defaults to 10.GRAPH_ETHEREUM_BLOCK_INGESTOR_MAX_CONCURRENT_JSON_RPC_CALLS_FOR_TXN_RECEIPTS
: The maximum number of concurrent requests made against Ethereum for requesting transaction receipts during block ingestion. Defaults to 1,000.GRAPH_ETHEREUM_FETCH_TXN_RECEIPTS_IN_BATCHES
: Set totrue
to disable fetching receipts from the Ethereum node concurrently during block ingestion. This will use fewer, batched requests. This is always set totrue
on MacOS to avoid DNS issues.GRAPH_ETHEREUM_CLEANUP_BLOCKS
: Set totrue
to clean up unneeded blocks from the cache in the database. When this isfalse
or unset (the default), blocks will never be removed from the block cache. This setting should only be used during development to reduce the size of the database. In production environments, it will cause multiple downloads of the same blocks and therefore slow the system down. This setting can not be used if the store uses more than one shard.GRAPH_ETHEREUM_GENESIS_BLOCK_NUMBER
: Specify genesis block number. If the flag is not set, the default value will be0
.
GRAPH_MAPPING_HANDLER_TIMEOUT
: amount of time a mapping handler is allowed to take (in seconds, default is unlimited)GRAPH_ENTITY_CACHE_SIZE
: Size of the entity cache, in kilobytes. Defaults to 10000 which is 10MB.GRAPH_MAX_API_VERSION
: MaximumapiVersion
supported, if a developer tries to create a subgraph with a higherapiVersion
than this in their mappings, they'll receive an error. Defaults to0.0.7
.GRAPH_MAX_SPEC_VERSION
: MaximumspecVersion
supported. if a developer tries to create a subgraph with a higherapiVersion
than this, they'll receive an error. Defaults to0.0.5
.GRAPH_RUNTIME_MAX_STACK_SIZE
: Maximum stack size for the WASM runtime, if exceeded the execution stops and an error is thrown. Defaults to 512KiB.
GRAPH_IPFS_TIMEOUT
: timeout for IPFS, which includes requests for manifest files and from mappings (in seconds, default is 60).GRAPH_MAX_IPFS_FILE_BYTES
: maximum size for a file that can be retrieved by anipfs cat
call. This affects both subgraph definition files andfile/ipfs
data sources. In bytes, default is 25 MiB.GRAPH_MAX_IPFS_MAP_FILE_SIZE
: maximum size of files that can be processed withipfs.map
. When a file is processed throughipfs.map
, the entities generated from that are kept in memory until the entire file is done processing. This setting therefore limits how much memory a call toipfs.map
may use (in bytes, defaults to 256MB).GRAPH_MAX_IPFS_CACHE_SIZE
: maximum number of files cached (defaults to 50).GRAPH_MAX_IPFS_CACHE_FILE_SIZE
: maximum size of each cached file (in bytes, defaults to 1MiB).GRAPH_IPFS_REQUEST_LIMIT
: Limits the number of requests per second to IPFS for file data sources. Defaults to 100.
GRAPH_GRAPHQL_QUERY_TIMEOUT
: maximum execution time for a graphql query, in seconds. Default is unlimited.GRAPH_GRAPHQL_MAX_COMPLEXITY
: maximum complexity for a graphql query. See here for what that means. Default is unlimited. Typical introspection queries have a complexity of just over 1 million, so setting a value below that may interfere with introspection done by graphql clients.GRAPH_GRAPHQL_MAX_DEPTH
: maximum depth of a graphql query. Default (and maximum) is 255.GRAPH_GRAPHQL_MAX_FIRST
: maximum value that can be used for thefirst
argument in GraphQL queries. If not provided,first
defaults to 100. The default value forGRAPH_GRAPHQL_MAX_FIRST
is 1000.GRAPH_GRAPHQL_MAX_SKIP
: maximum value that can be used for theskip
argument in GraphQL queries. The default value forGRAPH_GRAPHQL_MAX_SKIP
is unlimited.GRAPH_GRAPHQL_WARN_RESULT_SIZE
andGRAPH_GRAPHQL_ERROR_RESULT_SIZE
: if a GraphQL result is larger than these sizes in bytes, log a warning respectively abort query execution and return an error. The size of the result is checked while the response is being constructed, so that execution does not take more memory than what is configured. The default value for both is unlimited.GRAPH_GRAPHQL_MAX_OPERATIONS_PER_CONNECTION
: maximum number of GraphQL operations per WebSocket connection. Any operation created after the limit will return an error to the client. Default: 1000.GRAPH_GRAPHQL_HTTP_PORT
: Port for the GraphQL HTTP serverGRAPH_GRAPHQL_WS_PORT
: Port for the GraphQL WebSocket serverGRAPH_SQL_STATEMENT_TIMEOUT
: the maximum number of seconds an individual SQL query is allowed to take during GraphQL execution. Default: unlimitedGRAPH_DISABLE_SUBSCRIPTION_NOTIFICATIONS
: disables the internal mechanism that is used to trigger updates on GraphQL subscriptions. When this variable is set to any value,graph-node
will still accept GraphQL subscriptions, but they won't receive any updates.ENABLE_GRAPHQL_VALIDATIONS
: enables GraphQL validations, based on the GraphQL specification. This will validate and ensure every query executes follows the execution rules. Default:false
SILENT_GRAPHQL_VALIDATIONS
: IfENABLE_GRAPHQL_VALIDATIONS
is enabled, you are also able to just silently print the GraphQL validation errors, without failing the actual query. Note: queries might still fail as part of the later stage validations running, during GraphQL engine execution. Default:true
GRAPH_GRAPHQL_DISABLE_BOOL_FILTERS
: disables the ability to use AND/OR filters. This is useful if we want to disable filters because of performance reasons.GRAPH_GRAPHQL_DISABLE_CHILD_SORTING
: disables the ability to use child-based sorting. This is useful if we want to disable child-based sorting because of performance reasons.GRAPH_GRAPHQL_TRACE_TOKEN
: the token to use to enable query tracing for a GraphQL request. If this is set, requests that have a headerX-GraphTraceQuery
set to this value will include a trace of the SQL queries that were run. Defaults to the empty string which disables tracing.
GRAPH_CACHED_SUBGRAPH_IDS
: when set to*
, cache all subgraphs (default behavior). Otherwise, a comma-separated list of subgraphs for which to cache queries.GRAPH_QUERY_CACHE_BLOCKS
: How many recent blocks per network should be kept in the query cache. This should be kept small since the lookup time and the cache memory usage are proportional to this value. Set to 0 to disable the cache. Defaults to 1.GRAPH_QUERY_CACHE_MAX_MEM
: Maximum total memory to be used by the query cache, in MB. The total amount of memory used for caching will be twice this value - once for recent blocks, divided evenly among theGRAPH_QUERY_CACHE_BLOCKS
, and once for frequent queries against older blocks. The default is plenty for most loads, particularly ifGRAPH_QUERY_CACHE_BLOCKS
is kept small. Defaults to 1000, which corresponds to 1GB.GRAPH_QUERY_CACHE_STALE_PERIOD
: Number of queries after which a cache entry can be considered stale. Defaults to 100.
GRAPH_NODE_ID
: sets the node ID, allowing to run multiple Graph Nodes in parallel and deploy to specific nodes; each ID must be unique among the set of nodes. A single node should have the same value between consecutive restarts. Subgraphs get assigned to node IDs and are not reassigned to other nodes automatically.GRAPH_NODE_ID_USE_LITERAL_VALUE
: (Docker only) Use the literalnode_id
provided to the docker start script instead of replacing hyphens (-) in names with underscores (_). Changing this for an existinggraph-node
installation requires also changing the assigned node IDs in thesubgraphs.subgraph_deployment_assignment
table in the database. This can be done with GraphMan or via the PostgreSQL command line.GRAPH_LOG
: control log levels, the same way thatRUST_LOG
is described hereTHEGRAPH_STORE_POSTGRES_DIESEL_URL
: postgres instance used when running tests. Set topostgresql://<DBUSER>:<DBPASSWORD>@<DBHOST>:<DBPORT>/<DBNAME>
GRAPH_KILL_IF_UNRESPONSIVE
: If set, the process will be killed if unresponsive.GRAPH_LOG_QUERY_TIMING
: Control whether the process logs details of processing GraphQL and SQL queries. The value is a comma separated list ofsql
,gql
, andcache
. Ifgql
is present in the list, each GraphQL query made against the node is logged at levelinfo
. The log message contains the subgraph that was queried, the query, its variables, the amount of time the query took, and a uniquequery_id
. Ifsql
is present, the SQL queries that a GraphQL query causes are logged. The log message contains the subgraph, the query, its bind variables, the amount of time it took to execute the query, the number of entities found by the query, and thequery_id
of the GraphQL query that caused the SQL query. These SQL queries are marked withcomponent: GraphQlRunner
There are additional SQL queries that get logged whensql
is given. These are queries caused by mappings when processing blocks for a subgraph, and queries caused by subscriptions. Ifcache
is present in addition togql
, also logs information for each toplevel GraphQL query field whether that could be retrieved from cache or not. Defaults to no logging.GRAPH_LOG_TIME_FORMAT
: Custom log time format.Default value is%b %d %H:%M:%S%.3f
. More information here.STORE_CONNECTION_POOL_SIZE
: How many simultaneous connections to allow to the store. Due to implementation details, this value may not be strictly adhered to. Defaults to 10.GRAPH_LOG_POI_EVENTS
: Logs Proof of Indexing events deterministically. This may be useful for debugging.GRAPH_LOAD_WINDOW_SIZE
,GRAPH_LOAD_BIN_SIZE
: Load can be automatically throttled if load measurements over a time period ofGRAPH_LOAD_WINDOW_SIZE
seconds exceed a threshold. Measurements within each window are binned into bins ofGRAPH_LOAD_BIN_SIZE
seconds. The variables default to 300s and 1sGRAPH_LOAD_THRESHOLD
: If wait times for getting database connections go above this threshold, throttle queries until the wait times fall below the threshold. Value is in milliseconds, and defaults to 0 which turns throttling and any associated statistics collection off.GRAPH_LOAD_JAIL_THRESHOLD
: When the system is overloaded, any query that causes more than this fraction of the effort will be rejected for as long as the process is running (i.e., even after the overload situation is resolved) If this variable is not set, no queries will ever be jailed, but they will still be subject to normal load management when the system is overloaded.GRAPH_LOAD_SIMULATE
: Perform all the steps that the load manager would given the other load management configuration settings, but never actually decline to run a query, instead log about load management decisions. Set totrue
to turn simulation on, defaults tofalse
GRAPH_STORE_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT
: How long to wait to connect to a database before assuming the database is down in ms. Defaults to 5000ms.EXPERIMENTAL_SUBGRAPH_VERSION_SWITCHING_MODE
: default isinstant
, set tosynced
to only switch a named subgraph to a new deployment once it has synced, making the new deployment the "Pending" version.GRAPH_REMOVE_UNUSED_INTERVAL
: How long to wait before removing an unused deployment. The system periodically checks and marks deployments that are not used by any subgraphs any longer. Once a deployment has been identified as unused,graph-node
will wait at least this long before actually deleting the data (value is in minutes, defaults to 360, i.e. 6 hours)GRAPH_ALLOW_NON_DETERMINISTIC_IPFS
: enables indexing of subgraphs which useipfs.cat
as part of subgraph mappings. This is an experimental feature which is not deterministic, and will be removed in future.GRAPH_STORE_BATCH_TARGET_DURATION
: How long batch operations during copying or grafting should take. This limits how long transactions for such long running operations will be, and therefore helps control bloat in other tables. Value is in seconds and defaults to 180s.GRAPH_START_BLOCK
: block hash:block number where the forked subgraph will start indexing at.GRAPH_FORK_BASE
: api url for where the graph node will fork from, usehttps://api.thegraph.com/subgraphs/id/
for the hosted service.GRAPH_DEBUG_FORK
: the IPFS hash id of the subgraph to fork.GRAPH_STORE_HISTORY_SLACK_FACTOR
: How much history a subgraph with limited history can accumulate before it will be pruned. Setting this to 1.1 means that the subgraph will be pruned every time it contains 10% more history (in blocks) than its history limit. The default value is 1.2 and the value must be at least 1.01GRAPH_STORE_HISTORY_REBUILD_THRESHOLD
,GRAPH_STORE_HISTORY_DELETE_THRESHOLD
: when pruning, prune by copying the entities we will keep to new tables if we estimate that we will remove more than a factor ofREBUILD_THRESHOLD
of the deployment's history. If we estimate to remove a factor betweenREBUILD_THRESHOLD
andDELETE_THRESHOLD
, prune by deleting from the existing tables of the deployment. If we estimate to remove less thanDELETE_THRESHOLD
entities, do not change the table. Both settings are floats, and default to 0.5 for theREBUILD_THRESHOLD
and 0.05 for theDELETE_THRESHOLD
; they must be between 0 and 1, andREBUILD_THRESHOLD
must be bigger thanDELETE_THRESHOLD
.GRAPH_STORE_WRITE_BATCH_DURATION
: how long to accumulate changes during syncing into a batch before a write has to happen in seconds. The default is 300s. Setting this to 0 disables write batching.GRAPH_STORE_WRITE_BATCH_SIZE
: how many changes to accumulate during syncing in kilobytes before a write has to happen. The default is 10_000 which corresponds to 10MB. Setting this to 0 disables write batching.