Environment Variables

This document lists all the environment variables supported by Parseable server.

Variable Name	Required	Description	Default	Example
`P_USERNAME`	Yes	Username for the admin user. Will be used to access API and UI.	"admin"	"AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"
`P_PASSWORD`	Yes	Password for the admin user. Will be used to access API and UI.	"admin"	"wJalrXUtnaEXAMPLEKEY"
`P_ADDR`	No	Address (IP Address and Port) on which Parseable server would listen for new connections.	"127.0.0.1:8000"	"127.0.0.1:7000"
`P_TLS_CERT_PATH`	No	Location of TLS Cert file on the server. Use this and `P_TLS_KEY_PATH` variable together to enable TLS on your Parseable server.	-	"/home/user/fullchain.pem"
`P_TLS_KEY_PATH`	No	Location of TLS Private key file on the server. Use this and `P_TLS_CERT_PATH` variable together to enable TLS on your Parseable server.	-	"/home/user/privkey.pem"
`P_STAGING_DIR`	No	Path on the local machine where Parseable server would stage data before pushing it to storage.	"$PWD/staging"	"/home/user/parseable/staging"
`P_CHECK_UPDATE`	No	Specify whether server should check for new updates from Parseable download server.	false	true

Variable Name	Required	Description	Default	Example
`P_S3_URL`	Yes	URL for S3 or compatible object storage server.	-	"https://s3.amazonaws.com"
`P_S3_ACCESS_KEY`	Yes	Access key for S3 or compatible object storage server.	-	"AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE"
`P_S3_SECRET_KEY`	Yes	Secret key for S3 or compatible object storage server.	-	"wJalrXUtnaEXAMPLEKEY"
`P_S3_BUCKET`	Yes	Bucket to use for Parseable data storage.	-	"parseable"
`P_S3_REGION`	Yes	Region for the object storage platform.	-	"us-east-1"
`P_S3_SET_CONTENT_MD5`	No	Set content MD5 in requests to allow S3 buckets with WORM enabled.	false	true

Variable Name	Required	Description	Default	Example
`P_FS_DIR`	No	Path on the local machine where Parseable server would store data.	"$PWD/data"	"/home/user/parseable/data"