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Version: 0.18

Ingestion mode

Ingestion mode is a light Prisme Analytics mode for handling and ingesting events.

It integrates solely with ClickHouse.

Overview

Configuration options

Configuration of your instance is done by setting PRISME_<option name> environment variable.

Web server

Prisme has 2 logs, an access logs for processed requests and a general logs for everything else.

All logs are structured JSON that follows bunyan format.

You can pipe logs to bunyan CLI to pretty print them.

Access log

Path to access log file.

Default: PRISME_ACCESS_LOG=/dev/stdout

Port

Web server listening TCP port.

Default: PRISME_PORT=80

API endpoints timeout

Duration before handlers timeout on /api/* endpoints.

Default: PRISME_API_EVENTS_TIMEOUT=3s

Administration server

Since v0.15.0, Prisme is able to collect and expose it's metrics on the newly added administration interface.

Host port

<host>:<port> string on which administration server will listen.

Default: PRISME_ADMIN_HOSTPORT=127.0.0.1:9090 (PRISME_ADMIN_HOSTPORT="0.0.0.0:9090" in Docker)

Proxy options

Prisme Analytics can be positioned behind a reverse proxy, and this section provides information on options related to the proxy setup. It's important to note that a misconfigured server can have security implications. Hence, Prisme Analytics prioritizes security by default with carefully chosen default values.

Trust proxy

Whether X-Forwarded-For, X-Request-Id and other proxy related headers should be trusted. Sets this value to true only if your instance is running behind a proxy.

Default: PRISME_TRUST_PROXY=false

Proxy header

HTTP header used to determine client IP address when Prisme Analytics is placed behind a trusted proxy.

Default: PRISME_PROXY_HEADER=X-Forwarded-For

Proxy request id header

HTTP header used to retrieve request ID forwarded by a trusted proxy. If header is empty, a new request id will be generated.

Default: PRISME_PROXY_REQUEST_ID_HEADER=X-Request-Id

ClickHouse options

Secure connection

Use a TLS connection for ClickHouse.

Default: PRISME_CLICKHOUSE_TLS=false

Host and port

<host>:<port> string pointing to a ClickHouse instance.

Example: PRISME_CLICKHOUSE_HOSTPORT=clickhouse.localhost:9000
This options is mandatory.

Database

ClickHouse database to use.

Default: PRISME_CLICKHOUSE_DATABASE=prisme

Origin registry options

Origins

Comma separated list (without whitespace) of valid origins. Events coming from an invalid source are rejected.

Example: PRISME_SOURCE_REGISTRY_SOURCE=www.example.com,app.example.com

Event store options

Event store is responsible of storing events efficiently in ClickHouse.

ClickHouse recommend keeping number of insertions to 1 per seconds max and inserting rows per batch of tens of thousands.

Maximum batch size

Maximum size of an events batch before it is sent to ClickHouse. Leave as default unless you have high traffic load.

Default: PRISME_EVENTSTORE_MAX_BATCH_SIZE=4096

Maximum batch timeout

Maximum duration before current batch is sent to event store.

Default: PRISME_EVENTSTORE_MAX_BATCH_TIMEOUT=1m

Session storage

In-memory session storage options. Sessions are linked to a device id which is similar to visitor id except that it doesn't change over time.

Garbage collector interval

Interval at which expired sessions are collected.

Default: PRISME_SESSIONSTORAGE_GC_INTERVAL=10s

Inactive TTL

The maximum time a session can remain inactive before it expires.

Default: PRISME_SESSIONSTORAGE_SESSION_INACTIVE_TTL=24h

Device expiry percentile

The garbage collector removes expired sessions from a device only after a specified percentage of its total sessions have expired. This threshold helps optimize system performance by batching cleanup operations instead of running them for each individual session expiration.

Default: PRISME_SESSIONSTORAGE_DEVICE_EXPIRY_PERCENTILE=50

By default, sessions associated to a device are collected when 50% of all device's sessions are expired.

Max sessions per device

Maximum number of sessions per device.

Default: PRISME_SESSIONSTORAGE_MAX_SERSSIONS_PER_VISITOR=64