Skip to main content

Server Configurations

This page contains all of the configurations that are accepted by the LittleHorse Server. We recommend that you set these configurations as environment variables for the ghcr.io/littlehorse-enterprises/littlehorse/lh-server image.

However, some power users might want to fork and build from source (the code is on our github). If you do this, you can set these configurations in the Properties object that you pass into the LHServerConfig constructor.

Kafka​

LHS_KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS​

A list of host/port pairs to use for establishing the initial connection to the Kafka cluster. Kafka Official.

  • Type: string list
  • Default: localhost:9092
  • Importance: high

LHS_KAFKA_KEYSTORE​

The location of the key store file. This is optional for client and can be used for two-way authentication for client. Kafka Official.

  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_KAFKA_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD​

The store password for the key store file. This is optional. Kafka Official.

  • Type: string
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_KAFKA_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD_FILE​

The store password for the key store file. If it is different to null it overrides the LHS_KAFKA_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD config and load the password from the file. This is optional. Kafka Official.

  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_KAFKA_TRUSTSTORE​

The location of the trust store file. This is optional. Kafka Official.

  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_KAFKA_TRUSTSTORE_PASSWORD​

The password for the trust store file. This is optional. Kafka Official.

  • Type: string
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_KAFKA_TRUSTSTORE_PASSWORD_FILE​

The password for the trust store file. If it is different to null it overrides the LHS_KAFKA_TRUSTSTORE_PASSWORD config and load the password from the file. This is optional. Kafka Official.

  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_KAFKA_SECURITY_PROTOCOL​

The protocol with which to talk to the Kafka brokers. Defaults to PLAINTEXT. Kafka Official.

  • Type: PLAINTEXT|SSL|SASL_SSL
  • Default: PLAINTEXT
  • Importance: medium

LHS_KAFKA_SASL_MECHANISM​

The mechanism used for SASL connections to the Kafka brokers. Only valid if LHS_KAFKA_SECURITY_PROTOCOL is set to SASL_SSL. Kafka Official.

  • Type: PLAINTEXT|SSL|SASL_SSL
  • Default: PLAINTEXT
  • Importance: medium

LHS_KAFKA_SASL_JAAS_CONFIG​

The Jaas Config to be used to connect to the Kafka brokers. Only valid if the LHS_KAFKA_SECURITY_PROTOCOL is set to SASL_SSL. Kafka Official

  • Type: string
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_KAFKA_SASL_JAAS_CONFIG_FILE​

A file containing the Jaas Config to be used to connect to the Kafka brokers. Only valid if the LHS_KAFKA_SECURITY_PROTOCOL is set to SASL_SSL. Kafka Official

  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

Server Internal Connections​

LHS_INTERNAL_BIND_PORT​

Listening port for internal gRPC communications. It is use by the server instances to shared distributed data through interactive queries. Should be unique.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 2011
  • Importance: high

LHS_INTERNAL_ADVERTISED_HOST​

Ensures all server instances over the network can successfully connect to each other. It represents the hostname that other server instances should us to connect to this server.

  • Type: string
  • Default: localhost
  • Importance: high

LHS_INTERNAL_ADVERTISED_PORT​

Listening advertise port for internal communications. It represents the TPC port that other server instances should us to connect to this server.

  • Type: int
  • Default: ${LHS_INTERNAL_BIND_PORT}
  • Importance: high

LHS_INTERNAL_SERVER_CERT​

Optional location of Server Cert file for TLS/mTLS connection.

  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_INTERNAL_SERVER_KEY​

Optional location of Server Key file for TLS/mTLS connection.

  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_INTERNAL_CA_CERT​

Optional location of CA Cert file that issued the client side certificates, used by mTLS connection.

  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

Server External Connections​

LHS_LISTENERS​

List of comma-separated named ports the gRPC API will listen on.

Format: <NAME>:<TPC PORT>

Examples of legal listener lists: MY_FIRST_LISTENER:2023,MY_SECOND_LISTENER:2024

  • Type: map
  • Default: PLAIN:2023
  • Importance: high

LHS_LISTENERS_PROTOCOL_MAP​

Map between listener names and security protocols. Depends on LHS_LISTENERS.

Format: <LISTENER NAME>:<PROTOCOL>

Examples of a legal list: INSECURE:PLAIN,SECURE:TLS

Allowed protocols: PLAIN, TLS, MTLS

  • Type: map
  • Default: PLAIN:PLAIN
  • Importance: high

LHS_LISTENER_<LISTENER NAME>_CERT​

Optional location of Server Cert file for TLS/mTLS connection. Depends on LHS_LISTENERS.

Example:

LHS_LISTENERS=MY_LISTENER:2023
LHS_LISTENERS_PROTOCOL_MAP=MY_LISTENER:MTLS
LHS_LISTENER_MY_LISTENER_CERT=/tmp/certificate
...
  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_LISTENER_<LISTENER NAME>_KEY​

Optional location of Server Key file for TLS/mTLS connection. Depends on LHS_LISTENERS.

Example:

LHS_LISTENERS=MY_LISTENER:2023
LHS_LISTENERS_PROTOCOL_MAP=MY_LISTENER:MTLS
LHS_LISTENER_MY_LISTENER_CERT=/tmp/certificate
LHS_LISTENER_MY_LISTENER_KEY=/tmp/key
...
  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_CA_CERT​

Optional location of CA Cert file that issued the client side certificates, used by mTLS connections. Refers to the Certificate Authority to trust to sign certs for the clients. This CA Cert is applied to all the listeners.

Example:

LHS_LISTENERS=MY_LISTENER:2023
LHS_LISTENERS_PROTOCOL_MAP=MY_LISTENER:MTLS
LHS_LISTENER_MY_LISTENER_CERT=/tmp/certificate
LHS_LISTENER_MY_LISTENER_KEY=/tmp/key
LHS_CA_CERT=/tmp/ca
...
  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_LISTENERS_AUTHENTICATION_MAP​

Map between listener names and authentication mechanisms. Depends on LHS_LISTENERS.

LHS_LISTENERS_PROTOCOL_MAP should be set to MTLS for a listener in order to use MTLS as the authentication mechanism.

Format: <LISTENER NAME>:<AUTH PROTOCOL>

Examples of a legal list: SECURE:OAUTH,INSECURE:NONE

Allowed protocols: NONE, OAUTH, MTLS

  • Type: map
  • Default: null
  • Importance: high

LHS_OAUTH_INTROSPECT_URL​

Optional OAuth server introspection URL. Used by the server to authenticate tokens from incoming calls. This OAuth server introspection URL is used by all OAUTH listeners.

Needs to be set if any listener specifies OAUTH as an authentication mechanism in LHS_LISTENERS_AUTHENTICATION_MAP

Example:

LHS_LISTENERS=MY_LISTENER:2023
LHS_LISTENERS_AUTHENTICATION_MAP=MY_LISTENER:OAUTH
LHS_OAUTH_INTROSPECT_URL=http://localhost:8888/realms/lh/protocol/openid-connect/token/introspect
...
  • Type: url
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID​

Optional OAuth2 Client Id. This OAuth client id is used by all OAUTH listeners, and authenticates all incoming calls against the OAuth server.

Example:

LHS_LISTENERS=MY_LISTENER:2023
LHS_LISTENERS_AUTHENTICATION_MAP=MY_LISTENER:OAUTH
LHS_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=server
...
  • Type: string
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID_FILE​

Optional OAuth2 Client Id. This OAuth client id is used by all OAUTH listeners, and authenticates all incoming calls against the OAuth server. If it is different to null it overrides the LHS_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID config and loads the client id from the file.

Example:

LHS_LISTENERS=MY_LISTENER:2023
LHS_LISTENERS_AUTHENTICATION_MAP=MY_LISTENER:OAUTH
LHS_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID_FILE=/temp/client_id
...
  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET​

Optional OAuth2 Client Secret. This OAuth client secret is used by all OAUTH listeners, and authenticates all incoming calls against the OAuth server.

Example:

LHS_LISTENERS=MY_LISTENER:2023
LHS_LISTENERS_AUTHENTICATION_MAP=MY_LISTENER:OAUTH
LHS_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=3bdca420cf6c48e2aa4f56d46d6327e0
...
  • Type: string
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET_FILE​

Optional OAuth2 Client Secret. This OAuth client secret is used by all OAUTH listeners, and authenticates all incoming calls against the OAuth server. If it is different to null it overrides the LHS_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET config and loads the secret from the file.

Example:

LHS_LISTENERS=MY_LISTENER:2023
LHS_LISTENERS_AUTHENTICATION_MAP=MY_LISTENER:OAUTH
LHS_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET_FILE=/temp/client_secret
...
  • Type: path
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS​

It represents the hostnames and ports that clients and workers should us to connect to this server.

Format: <NAME>://<HOSTNAME>:<TPC PORT>

Examples of legal advertised listener lists: FOR_WORKERS://localhost:2023,FOR_LHCTL://127.0.0.1:2023

  • Type: string
  • Default: PLAIN://localhost:2023
  • Importance: high

Server Behavior​

LHS_CLUSTER_ID​

An identifier for the stream processing application. Must be unique within the LittleHorse cluster. It is used as 1) the default client-id prefix, 2) the group-id for membership management, 3) the changelog topic prefix. Kafka Official.

  • Type: string
  • Default: cluster1
  • Importance: high

LHS_INSTANCE_ID​

An optional ordinal integer describing the order in which this Server was added to the cluster. If provided, it must be unique. Providing this configuration allows LittleHorse to make better decisions about Kafka Streams Task Assignment when adding or removing servers. For a specific server, this should be consistent across restarts. Must be positive.

  • Type: Short
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_RACK_ID​

Provides rack awareness to the cluster. Used in two ways:

  • To ensure that standby tasks are scheduled in different rack's than their active tasks (Kafka Official).
  • To enable follower fetching for standby tasks. Reduces networking costs without impacting application performance.
  • Type: string
  • Default: null
  • Importance: medium

LHS_SHOULD_CREATE_TOPICS​

Defines if the server should create its own topics. It is useful for development environments. Disable this for production environments LHS_SHOULD_CREATE_TOPICS=false.

  • Type: boolean
  • Default: true
  • Importance: low

LHS_REPLICATION_FACTOR​

The replication factor for change log topics and repartition topics created by the stream processing application. Kafka Official. Disabled if LHS_SHOULD_CREATE_TOPICS=false.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 1
  • Importance: low

LHS_CLUSTER_PARTITIONS​

The number of partitions in each internal kafka topic. Necessary whether or not LHS_SHOULD_CREATE_TOPICS is set.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 12
  • Importance: high

LHS_CORE_STREAM_THREADS​

The number of threads to execute stream processing in the Core Topology. Kafka Official. For a server with N cores, we recommend setting this to N * 0.6.

  • Type: int, >= 1
  • Default: 1
  • Importance: medium

LHS_TIMER_STREAM_THREADS​

The number of threads to execute stream processing in the Timer Topology. Kafka Official. For a server with N cores, we recommend setting this to N * 0.4.

  • Type: int, >= 1
  • Default: 1
  • Importance: medium

LHS_NUM_NETWORK_THREADS​

The size of the shared Threadpool used by the grpc listeners.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 2
  • Minimum: 2
  • Importance: medium

LHS_STREAMS_METRICS_LEVEL​

The level of granularity to collect Kafka Streams Metrics. Passes through to Kafka Streams metrics.recording.level.

  • Type: info|debug|trace
  • Default: info
  • Importance: medium

LHS_STREAMS_SESSION_TIMEOUT​

The timeout used to detect client failures when using Kafka's group management facility. Kafka Official.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 30000 (30 seconds)
  • Importance: high

LHS_CORE_STREAMS_COMMIT_INTERVAL​

The frequency in milliseconds with which to commit processing progress on the Core Topology. Kafka Official. For the Core Topology, we recommend setting it to 5000 milliseconds. A large enough value along with a large value for LHS_CORE_STATESTORE_CACHE_BYTES will result in fewer records emitted to the Kafka Streams Changelog topics.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 5000
  • Importance: medium

LHS_TIMER_STREAMS_COMMIT_INTERVAL​

The frequency in milliseconds with which to commit processing progress on the Timer Topology. Kafka Official. For the Timer Topology, we recommend setting it to 30000 milliseconds. A large enough value along with a large value for LHS_TIMER_STATESTORE_CACHE_BYTES will result in fewer records emitted to the Kafka Streams Changelog topics.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 30000
  • Importance: medium

LHS_STATE_DIR​

Directory location for state store. This path must be unique for each streams instance sharing the same underlying filesystem. Kafka Official.

  • Type: path
  • Default: /tmp/kafkaState
  • Importance: high

LHS_STREAMS_NUM_STANDBY_REPLICAS​

The number of standby replicas for each task. Applies to both Core and Timer topologies. Kafka Official.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 0
  • Importance: high

LHS_STREAMS_NUM_WARMUP_REPLICAS​

The maximum number of warmup replicas (extra standbys beyond the configured num.standbys) that can be assigned at once for the purpose of keeping the task available on one instance while it is warming up on another instance it has been reassigned to. Kafka Official.

The same config is used by both the Core and Timer Topologies. Note that if you set LHS_STREAMS_NUM_WARMUP_REPLICAS = N, then there can be up to 2 * N warmup replicas scheduled.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 12
  • Importance: medium

LHS_CORE_MEMTABLE_SIZE_BYTES​

The size of a RocksDB Memtable (aka Write Buffer) for the Core Topology.

  • Type: long
  • Default: 67108864 (64MB)
  • Importance: low

LHS_TIMER_MEMTABLE_SIZE_BYTES​

The size of a RocksDB Memtable (aka Write Buffer) for the Timer Topology.

  • Type: long
  • Default: 33554432 (32MB)
  • Importance: low

LHS_CORE_STATESTORE_CACHE_BYTES​

The size of the Kafka Streams State Store Cache on the Core Topology. This cache is put in front of RocksDB (i.e. before any writes to the Memtable) and is flushed on every Streams Commit (LHS_CORE_STREAMS_COMMIT_INTERVAL). This cache is shared by all Core Topology state stores on a server. A large enough value will result in fewer records emitted to the Kafka Streams Changelog topic.

  • Type: long
  • Default: 33554432 (32MB)
  • Importance: high

LHS_TIMER_STATESTORE_CACHE_BYTES​

The size of the Kafka Streams State Store Cache on the Timer Topology. This cache is put in front of RocksDB (i.e. before any writes to the Memtable) and is flushed on every Streams Commit (LHS_TIMER_STREAMS_COMMIT_INTERVAL). A large enough value will result in fewer records emitted to the Kafka Streams Changelog topic.

  • Type: long
  • Default: 67108864 (64MB)
  • Importance: high

LHS_ROCKSDB_TOTAL_BLOCK_CACHE_BYTES​

The size of the shared Block Cache for reads into RocksDB. Memory used by this cache is allocated off-heap. If not set, then there is no limit and the Kafka Streams default is used (each RocksDB instance gets its own 50-MB cache).

  • Type: long
  • Default: null
  • Importance: low

LHS_ROCKSDB_TOTAL_MEMTABLE_BYTES​

The capacity of the Rocksdb Write Buffer Manager. Memory used by the Write Buffer Manager is allocated off-heap. If not set, then there is no limit for off-heap memory allocated to memtables.

  • Type: long
  • Default: null
  • Importance: high

LHS_ROCKSDB_COMPACTION_THREADS​

The number of threads for RocksDB to use for compaction in the background. From the RocksDB documentation, a good value for this config is the number of cores on your LH Server.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 1
  • Importance: medium

Monitoring​

LHS_HEALTH_SERVICE_PORT​

The port that the healthchecks and prometheus metrics are exposed on.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 1822
  • Importance: low

LHS_HEALTH_PATH_METRICS​

The path to scrape metrics from.

  • Type: string
  • Default: /metrics
  • Importance: low

LHS_HEALTH_PATH_READINESSS​

The path upon which application readiness (the ability to serve requests) is exposed.

  • Type: string
  • Default: /readiness
  • Importance: low

LHS_HEALTH_PATH_LIVENESS​

The path upon which application liveness (the ability to ).

  • Type: string
  • Default: /metrics
  • Importance: low