···35353636You can re-build and run the command directly to get a list of configuration flags and env vars; env vars will be loaded from `.env` if that file exists:
37373838- RELAY_ADMIN_KEY=localdev go run ./cmd/relay/ --help
3838+ RELAY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=dummy go run ./cmd/relay/ --help
39394040By default, the daemon will use sqlite for databases (in the directory `./data/relay/`) and the HTTP API will be bound to localhost port 2470.
4141···5050 # careful! double-check this destructive command
5151 rm -rf ./data/relay/*
52525353-There is a basic web dashboard, though it will not be included unless built and copied to a local directory `./public/`. Run `make build-relay-ui`, and then when running the daemon the dashboard will be available at: <http://localhost:2470/dash/>. Paste in the admin key, eg `localdev`.
5353+There is a basic web dashboard, though it will not be included unless built and copied to a local directory `./public/`. Run `make build-relay-ui`, and then when running the daemon the dashboard will be available at: <http://localhost:2470/dash/>. Paste in the admin key, eg `dummy`.
54545555-The local admin routes can also be accessed by passing the admin key as a bearer token, for example:
5555+The local admin routes can also be accessed by passing the admin password using HTTP Basic auth (with username `admin`), for example:
56565757- http get :2470/admin/pds/list Authorization:"Bearer localdev"
5757+ http get :2470/admin/pds/list -a admin:dummy
58585959Request crawl of an individual PDS instance like:
60606161- http post :2470/admin/pds/requestCrawl Authorization:"Bearer localdev" hostname=pds.example.com
6161+ http post :2470/admin/pds/requestCrawl -a admin:dummy hostname=pds.example.com
626263636464## Docker Containers
···93939494Some notable configuration env vars to set:
95959696-- `ENVIRONMENT`: eg, `production`
9797-- `DATABASE_URL`: see section below
9898-- `GOLOG_LOG_LEVEL`: log verbosity
9696+- `RELAY_ADMIN_PASSWORD`
9797+- `DATABASE_URL`: eg, `postgres://relay:CHANGEME@localhost:5432/relay`
9898+- `RELAY_PERSIST_DIR`: storage location for "backfill" events, eg `/data/relay/persist`
9999+- `RELAY_REPLAY_WINDOW`: the duration of output "backfill window", eg `24h`
100100+- `RELAY_LENIENT_SYNC_VALIDATION`: if `true`, allow legacy upstreams which don't implement atproto sync v1.1
101101+- `RELAY_TRUSTED_DOMAINS`: patterns of PDS hosts which get larger quotas by default, eg `*.host.bsky.network`
99102100100-There is a health check endpoint at `/xrpc/_health`. Prometheus metrics are exposed by default on port 2471, path `/metrics`. The service logs fairly verbosely to stderr; use `GOLOG_LOG_LEVEL` to control log volume.
103103+There is a health check endpoint at `/xrpc/_health`. Prometheus metrics are exposed by default on port 2471, path `/metrics`. The service logs fairly verbosely to stdout; use `LOG_LEVEL` to control log volume (`warn`, `info`, etc).
101104102105Be sure to double-check bandwidth usage and pricing if running a public relay! Bandwidth prices can vary widely between providers, and popular cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) are very expensive compared to alternatives like OVH or Hetzner.
103103-104104-105105-## Bootstrapping the Network
106106-107107-To bootstrap the entire network, you'll want to start with a list of large PDS instances to backfill from. You could pull from a public dashboard of instances (like [mackuba's](https://blue.mackuba.eu/directory/pdses)), or scrape the full DID PLC directory, parse out all PDS service declarations, and sort by count.
108108-109109-Once you have a set of PDS hosts, you can put the bare hostnames (not URLs: no `https://` prefix, port, or path suffix) in a `hosts.txt` file, and then use the `crawl_pds.sh` script to backfill and configure limits for all of them:
110110-111111- export RELAY_HOST=your.pds.hostname.tld
112112- export RELAY_ADMIN_KEY=your-secret-key
113113-114114- # both request crawl, and set generous crawl limits for each
115115- cat hosts.txt | parallel -j1 ./crawl_pds.sh {}
116116-117117-Just consuming from the firehose for a few hours will only backfill accounts with activity during that period. This is fine to get the backfill process started, but eventually you'll want to do full "resync" of all the repositories on the PDS host to the most recent repo rev version. To enqueue that for all the PDS instances:
118118-119119- # start sync/backfill of all accounts
120120- cat hosts.txt | parallel -j1 ./sync_pds.sh {}
121121-122122-Lastly, can monitor progress of any ongoing re-syncs:
123123-124124- # check sync progress for all hosts
125125- cat hosts.txt | parallel -j1 ./sync_pds.sh {}
126126-127127-128128-## Admin API
129129-130130-The relay has a number of admin HTTP API endpoints. Given a relay setup listening on port 2470 and with a reasonably secure admin secret:
131131-132132-```
133133-RELAY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=$(openssl rand --hex 16)
134134-relay --api-listen :2470 --admin-key ${RELAY_ADMIN_PASSWORD} ...
135135-```
136136-137137-One can, for example, begin compaction of all repos
138138-139139-```
140140-curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer '${RELAY_ADMIN_PASSWORD} -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --data '' http://127.0.0.1:2470/admin/repo/compactAll
141141-```
142142-143143-### /admin/subs/getUpstreamConns
144144-145145-Return list of PDS host names in json array of strings: ["host", ...]
146146-147147-### /admin/subs/perDayLimit
148148-149149-Return `{"limit": int}` for the number of new PDS subscriptions that the relay may start in a rolling 24 hour window.
150150-151151-### /admin/subs/setPerDayLimit
152152-153153-POST with `?limit={int}` to set the number of new PDS subscriptions that the relay may start in a rolling 24 hour window.
154154-155155-### /admin/subs/setEnabled
156156-157157-POST with param `?enabled=true` or `?enabled=false` to enable or disable PDS-requested new-PDS crawling.
158158-159159-### /admin/subs/getEnabled
160160-161161-Return `{"enabled": bool}` if non-admin new PDS crawl requests are enabled
162162-163163-### /admin/subs/killUpstream
164164-165165-POST with `?host={pds host name}` to disconnect from their firehose.
166166-167167-Optionally add `&block=true` to prevent connecting to them in the future.
168168-169169-### /admin/subs/listDomainBans
170170-171171-Return `{"banned_domains": ["host name", ...]}`
172172-173173-### /admin/subs/banDomain
174174-175175-POST `{"Domain": "host name"}` to ban a domain
176176-177177-### /admin/subs/unbanDomain
178178-179179-POST `{"Domain": "host name"}` to un-ban a domain
180180-181181-### /admin/repo/takeDown
182182-183183-POST `{"did": "did:..."}` to take-down a bad repo; deletes all local data for the repo
184184-185185-### /admin/repo/reverseTakedown
186186-187187-POST `?did={did:...}` to reverse a repo take-down
188188-189189-### /admin/pds/requestCrawl
190190-191191-POST `{"hostname":"pds host"}` to start crawling a PDS
192192-193193-### /admin/pds/list
194194-195195-GET returns JSON list of records
196196-```json
197197-[{
198198- "Host": string,
199199- "Did": string,
200200- "SSL": bool,
201201- "Cursor": int,
202202- "Registered": bool,
203203- "Blocked": bool,
204204- "RateLimit": float,
205205- "CrawlRateLimit": float,
206206- "RepoCount": int,
207207- "RepoLimit": int,
208208- "HourlyEventLimit": int,
209209- "DailyEventLimit": int,
210210-211211- "HasActiveConnection": bool,
212212- "EventsSeenSinceStartup": int,
213213- "PerSecondEventRate": {"Max": float, "Window": float seconds},
214214- "PerHourEventRate": {"Max": float, "Window": float seconds},
215215- "PerDayEventRate": {"Max": float, "Window": float seconds},
216216- "CrawlRate": {"Max": float, "Window": float seconds},
217217- "UserCount": int,
218218-}, ...]
219219-```
220220-221221-### /admin/pds/changeLimits
222222-223223-POST to set the limits for a PDS. body:
224224-225225-```json
226226-{
227227- "host": string,
228228- "per_second": int,
229229- "per_hour": int,
230230- "per_day": int,
231231- "crawl_rate": int,
232232- "repo_limit": int,
233233-}
234234-```
235235-236236-### /admin/pds/block
237237-238238-POST `?host={host}` to block a PDS
239239-240240-### /admin/pds/unblock
241241-242242-POST `?host={host}` to un-block a PDS
243243-244244-245245-### /admin/pds/addTrustedDomain
246246-247247-POST `?domain={}` to make a domain trusted
248248-249249-### /admin/consumers/list
250250-251251-GET returns list json of clients currently reading from the relay firehose
252252-253253-```json
254254-[{
255255- "id": int,
256256- "remote_addr": string,
257257- "user_agent": string,
258258- "events_consumed": int,
259259- "connected_at": time,
260260-}, ...]
261261-```