GraphQL engine server flags reference

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Every GraphQL engine command is structured as:

$ graphql-engine <server-flags> serve <command-flags>

The flags can be passed as ENV variables as well.

Server flags

For the graphql-engine command these are the available flags and ENV variables:

Flag ENV variable Description
--database-url <DB_URL> HASURA_GRAPHQL_DATABASE_URL

Postgres database URL:

postgres://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<db-name>

Example: postgres://admin:mypass@mydomain.com:5432/mydb

Or you can specify the following options (only via flags):

    --host                      Postgres server host
-p, --port                      Postgres server port
-u, --user                      Database user name
-p, --password                  Password of the user
-d, --dbname                    Database name to connect to
-o, --pg-connection-options     PostgreSQL connection options

Note

The default configuration of PostgreSQL 11 and older may result in loss of precision when retrieving IEEE 754 style data, such as float4, real or double precision values, from the database. To avoid this, set the extra_float_digits PostgreSQL connection parameter to 3. This can be done by passing '--pg-connection-options=-c extra_float_digits=3' to graphql-engine, or by passing this option as part of the database url:

postgres://admin:mypass@mydomain.com:5432/mydb?options=-c%20extra_float_digits%3D3

Command flags

For the serve sub-command these are the available flags and ENV variables:

Flag ENV variable Description
--server-port <PORT> HASURA_GRAPHQL_SERVER_PORT Port on which graphql-engine should be served (default: 8080)
--server-host <HOST> HASURA_GRAPHQL_SERVER_HOST Host on which graphql-engine will listen (default: *)
--enable-console <true|false> HASURA_GRAPHQL_ENABLE_CONSOLE Enable the Hasura Console (served by the server on / and /console) (default: false)
--admin-secret <ADMIN_SECRET_KEY> HASURA_GRAPHQL_ADMIN_SECRET Admin secret key, required to access this instance. This is mandatory when you use webhook or JWT.
--auth-hook <WEBHOOK_URL> HASURA_GRAPHQL_AUTH_HOOK URL of the authorization webhook required to authorize requests. See auth webhooks docs for more details.
--auth-hook-mode <GET|POST> HASURA_GRAPHQL_AUTH_HOOK_MODE HTTP method to use for the authorization webhook (default: GET)
--jwt-secret <JSON_CONFIG> HASURA_GRAPHQL_JWT_SECRET A JSON string containing type and the JWK used for verifying (and other optional details). Example: {"type": "HS256", "key": "3bd561c37d214b4496d09049fadc542c"}. See the JWT docs for more details.
--unauthorized-role <ROLE> HASURA_GRAPHQL_UNAUTHORIZED_ROLE Unauthorized role, used when access-key is not sent in access-key only mode or the Authorization header is absent in JWT mode. Example: anonymous. Now whenever the “authorization” header is absent, the request’s role will default to anonymous.
--cors-domain <DOMAINS> HASURA_GRAPHQL_CORS_DOMAIN CSV of list of domains, incuding scheme (http/https) and port, to allow for CORS. Wildcard domains are allowed. (See Configure CORS)
--disable-cors HASURA_GRAPHQL_DISABLE_CORS Disable CORS. Do not send any CORS headers on any request.
--ws-read-cookie <true|false> HASURA_GRAPHQL_WS_READ_COOKIE Read cookie on WebSocket initial handshake even when CORS is disabled. This can be a potential security flaw! Please make sure you know what you’re doing. This configuration is only applicable when CORS is disabled. (default: false)
--enable-telemetry <true|false> HASURA_GRAPHQL_ENABLE_TELEMETRY Enable anonymous telemetry (default: true)
N/A HASURA_GRAPHQL_EVENTS_HTTP_POOL_SIZE Maximum number of concurrent http workers delivering events at any time (default: 100)
N/A HASURA_GRAPHQL_EVENTS_FETCH_INTERVAL Interval in milliseconds to sleep before trying to fetch events again after a fetch returned no events from postgres
-s, --stripes <NO_OF_STRIPES> HASURA_GRAPHQL_PG_STRIPES Number of stripes (distinct sub-pools) to maintain with Postgres (default: 1). New connections will be taken from a particular stripe pseudo-randomly.
-c, --connections <NO_OF_CONNS> HASURA_GRAPHQL_PG_CONNECTIONS Maximum number of Postgres connections that can be opened per stripe (default: 50). When the maximum is reached we will block until a new connection becomes available, even if there is capacity in other stripes.
--timeout <SECONDS> HASURA_GRAPHQL_PG_TIMEOUT Each connection’s idle time before it is closed (default: 180 sec)
--use-prepared-statements <true|false> HASURA_GRAPHQL_USE_PREPARED_STATEMENTS Use prepared statements for queries (default: true)
-i, --tx-iso <TXISO> HASURA_GRAPHQL_TX_ISOLATION Transaction isolation. read-committed / repeatable-read / serializable (default: read-commited)
--stringify-numeric-types HASURA_GRAPHQL_STRINGIFY_NUMERIC_TYPES Stringify certain Postgres numeric types, specifically bigint, numeric, decimal and double precision as they don’t fit into the IEEE-754 spec for JSON encoding-decoding. (default: false)
--enabled-apis <APIS> HASURA_GRAPHQL_ENABLED_APIS Comma separated list of APIs (options: metadata, graphql, pgdump) to be enabled. (default: metadata,graphql,pgdump)
--live-queries-multiplexed-refetch-interval HASURA_GRAPHQL_LIVE_QUERIES_MULTIPLEXED_REFETCH_INTERVAL Updated results (if any) will be sent at most once in this interval (in milliseconds) for live queries which can be multiplexed. Default: 1000 (1sec)
--live-queries-multiplexed-batch-size HASURA_GRAPHQL_LIVE_QUERIES_MULTIPLEXED_BATCH_SIZE Multiplexed live queries are split into batches of the specified size. Default: 100
--enable-allowlist HASURA_GRAPHQL_ENABLE_ALLOWLIST Restrict queries allowed to be executed by the GraphQL engine to those that are part of the configured allow-list. Default: false (Available for versions > v1.0.0-beta.1)
--console-assets-dir HASURA_GRAPHQL_CONSOLE_ASSETS_DIR Set the value to /srv/console-assets for the console to load assets from the server itself instead of CDN (Available for versions > v1.0.0-beta.1)
--enabled-log-types HASURA_GRAPHQL_ENABLED_LOG_TYPES Set the enabled log types. This is a comma-separated list of log-types to enable. Default: startup, http-log, webhook-log, websocket-log. See log types for more details.
--log-level HASURA_GRAPHQL_LOG_LEVEL Set the logging level. Default: info. Options: debug, info, warn, error.
--dev-mode HASURA_GRAPHQL_DEV_MODE Set dev mode for GraphQL requests; include the internal key in the errors extensions of the response (if required).
--admin-internal-errors HASURA_GRAPHQL_ADMIN_INTERNAL_ERRORS Include the internal key in the errors extensions of the response for GraphQL requests with the admin role (if required).

Note

When the equivalent flags for environment variables are used, the flags will take precedence.

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