Hydrolix Cluster Specification

There are lots of different options available in hydrolixcluster.yaml spec that control the behavior of your Hydrolix cluster:

Setting	Default Value	Definition	Example Values
`acme_enabled`	false	Whether or not the ACME certificate challenge server is enabled.
`admin_email`	"[email protected]"	Admin email that receives a password once the cluster starts.
`aws_credentials_method`	"static"	The credentials method used to authenticate with AWS. Deprecated: Use `db_bucket_credentials_method`.
`aws_load_balancer_tags`	"Environment=dev,Team=test"	Additional tags added to the load balancer of the traefik service when running in EKS.
`aws_load_balancer_subnets`	"service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-subnets"	A list of subnets assigned to the load balancer of the traefik service when running in EKS.
`azure_blob_storage_account`	null	The storage account to use when accessing an Azure blob storage container.
`basic_auth`	[]	A list of Hydrolix services that should be protected with basic auth when accessed. For more information, see Enabling Access & TLS. This is incompatible with the unified_auth setting, which was on by default starting with the 4.6 release.
`batch_peer_heartbeat_period`	"5m"	How frequently a batch peer should heartbeat any task it's working on as a duration string
`catalog_db_admin_user`	"turbine"	When PostgreSQL is managed externally, the admin user of the Catalog.
`catalog_db_admin_db`	"turbine"	The default db of the admin user of the Catalog.
`catalog_db_host`	"postgres"	Hostname used by the external PostgreSQL instance serving as the Hydrolix instance Catalog.
`clickhouse_http_port`	8088	The port to dedicate to the ClickHouse HTTP interface.
`db_bucket_credentials_method`	"web_identity"	The method Hydrolix uses to acquire credentials for connecting to cloud storage.	"static", "ec2_profile", "web_identity"
`db_bucket_endpoint`	null	The endpoint url for S3 compatible object storage services. Not required if using AWS S3 or if `db_bucket_url` is provided.
`db_bucket_name`	null	The name of the bucket you would like Hydrolix to store data in. Not required if `db_bucket_url` is provided.
`db_bucket_region`	null	The region of the bucket you would like Hydrolix to store data in. Not required if it can be inferred from `db_bucket_url`.	"us-east-2", "us-central1"
`db_bucket_type`	null	The object storage type of the bucket you would like Hydrolix to store data in. Not required if `db_bucket_url` is provided.	"gs", "s3"
`db_bucket_url`	null	The URL of the cloud storage bucket you would like Hydrolix to store data in.	"gs://my-bucket", "s3://my-bucket", "https://my-bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com", "https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/my-bucket", "https://my-bucket.us-southeast-1.linodeobjects.com", "https://minio.local/my-bucket"
`db_bucket_use_https`	true	If true use https when connecting to the cloud storage service. Inferred from `db_bucket_url` if possible.
`decay_enabled`	true	Whether or not the Decay CronJob should run.
`decay_schedule`	`0 0 * * *`	CRON schedule for Decay CronJob.
`decay_batch_size`	5000	Number of entries to fetch for each request to the catalog.
`default_query_pool`	"query-peer"	A name for the default query pool.
`disable_disk_cache`	false	Whether or not to disable disk caching.
`disable_traefik_http_port`	false	Whether or not to disable the default HTTP port (80) used by the traefik service.
`disable_traefik_https_port`	false	Whether or not to disable the default HTTPS port (443) used by the traefik service.
`disable_traefik_native_port`	false	Whether or not to disable the default Native (TCP) Clickhouse port (8088) used by the traefik service.
`disable_traefik_clickhouse_http_port`	false	Whether or not to disable the default Clickhouse HTTP port used by the traefik service. Uses port 9000 when TLS is disabled; 9440 when TLS is enabled.
`disable_vector_bucket_logging`	false	Whether or not to disable bucket logging via vector.
`disable_vector_kafka_logging`	false	Whether or not to disable Kafka logging via vector.
`dns_server_ip`		The IP address of a DNS server used for performance critical purposes.
`enable_manifest_cache`	true	If true, query heads will cache manifests downloaded from the database bucket.
`enable_query_auth`	false	When enabled requests to the query service, URL paths starting with `/query` and TCP native queries require authentication. For more information, see Query Authentication.
`enable_traefik_hsts`	false	If set to true, Traefik will enforce HSTS on all its connections WARNING: This may lead to hard-to-diagnose persistent SSL failures if there are any errors in SSL configuration, and cannot be turned off later
`traefik_hsts_expire_time`	315360000	Expiration time for HSTS caching in seconds.
`enable_vector`	null	Run vector to send kubernetes pod logs to json files in a bucket. Default inferred from the value of `scale_off`.
`env`	{}	Environment variables to set on all Kubernetes pods that are part of the Hydrolix cluster, useful to specify AWS Key for example.
`force_container_user_root`	false	Set the initial user for all containers to 0 (root).
`task_monitor_heartbeat_timeout`	600	How old a tasks heartbeat should be (in seconds) before it is timed out. Task are created by batch, alter job.
`http_connect_timeout_ms`	300	Maximum time to wait for socket to complete connection to cloud storage.
`http_port`	None	The port for non-HTTPS connections. This setting is rarely needed since`hydrolix_url` contains this information.
`http_ssl_connect_timeout_ms`	1000	Maximum time to wait for SSL/TLS handshake completion during connection to cloud storage.
`http_response_timeout_ms`	1000	Maximum time to wait for HTTP headers while reading from cloud storage.
`http_read_timeout_ms`	1000	Maximum time to wait, after socket read (`recv` system call), for cloud storage to make data available.
`http_write_timeout_ms`	10000	Maximum time to spend uploading a single partition to cloud storage.
`https_port`	None	The port for HTTPS connections. This setting is rarely needed since`hydrolix_url` contains this information.
`hydrolix_name`	"hdx"	The name you would like to assign your Hydrolix cluster.
`hydrolix_url`	null	The URL you would like to use to access your Hydrolix cluster.	"https://my-host.hydrolix.live", "https://my-host.mydomain.com", "http://my-host.local"
`ip_allowlist`	["127.0.0.1/32"]	A list of CIDR ranges that should be allowed to connect to the Hydrolix cluster load balancer. For more information, see Enabling Access & TLS.
`job_purge_age`	2160h	The age in days of a job after which it should be deleted from PostgreSQL Batch / Alter. For more information, see Batch Ingest.
`job_purge_enabled`	true	Whether or not the Job Purge CronJob should run.
`job_purge_schedule`	`0 2 * * *`	CRON schedule for Job Purge CronJob.
`kafka_careful_mode`	false	Whether or not to rate-limit Kafka reads to 10 messages per read call and limit concurrency to 1 reader. By default, Hydrolix reads 50 messages per call across 32 concurrent readers.
`kafka_tls_ca`	""	A CA certificate used by the kafka_peer to authenticate with a Kafka server. For more information, see Ingest via Kafka.
`kafka_tls_cert`	""	The PEM format certificate the kafka_peer uses to authenticate with a Kafka server. For more information, see Ingest via Kafka.
`kafka_tls_key`	null	The PEM format key the kafka_peer uses to authenticate with a Kafka server. For more information, see Ingest via Kafka.
`kinesis_coordinate_period`	10s	For Kinesis sources, how often the coordination process runs which distributes shard consumption amongst available peers. For more information, see ingest via Kinesis.
`kubernetes_premium_storage_class`	null	The storage class to use with persistent volumes created in Kubernetes for parts of a Hydrolix cluster where throughput is most critical.
`kubernetes_profile`	generic	Use default settings appropriate to this type of Kubernetes deployment.	"gke", "eks"
`kubernetes_storage_class`	null	The storage class to use with persistent volumes created in Kubernetes as part of a Hydrolix cluster.
`kubernetes_version`	"1.22"	Make manifests compatible with this version of Kubernetes.
`limit_cpu`	true	If set, container CPU limits are set to match CPU requests in Kubernetes..
`logs_kafka_bootstrap_servers`	["redpanda"]	A comma separated list of Kafka bootstrap servers to send logs to.
`logs_kafka_topic`	"logs"	Kafka topic that Hydrolix sends logs to.
`log_level`		Allows modification of logging levels for individual Hydrolix services. See Log Level for more.
`log_vacuum_concurrency`	8	Number of concurrent log deletion processes.
`log_vacuum_dry_run`	false	If true, LogVacuum will only log it's intentions and take no action.
`log_vacuum_enabled`	true	Whether or not the Log Vacuum CronJob should run.
`log_vacuum_max_age`	2160h	Maximum age of a log file before it is removed from cloud storage expressed as a duration string.
`log_vacuum_schedule`	`0 4 * * *`	CRON schedule for Log Vacuum CronJob.
`max_http_retries`	3	The number of retries Hydrolix attempts for a failed HTTP request. These retries happen in addition to the original request, so the total maximum number of requests for value `N` is always `N+1`.
`merge_cleanup_batch_size`	5000	Number of entries to fetch for each request to the catalog.
`merge_cleanup_delay`	15m	How long before a merged partition should be deleted expressed as a duration string.
`merge_cleanup_enabled`	true	Whether or not the Merge Clean-up CronJob should run.
`merge_cleanup_schedule`	`/5 * * *`	CRON schedule for Merge Clean-up CronJob.
`merge_head_batch_size`	10000	Number of records to pull from the catalog per request by the Merge head.
`merge_interval`	"15s"	The time the merge process waits between checking for Mergeable partitions.
`merge_max_partitions_per_candidate`	100	The maximum number of partitions per Merge candidate.
`merge_queue_limit`	500	Maximum number of pending Merge jobs.
`merge_min_mb`	1024	Size in megabytes of the smallest merge tier. All other merge tiers are multiples of this value.
`monitor_ingest`	false	Runs a pod which sends a heartbeat event through ingest to the `hydro.montor` table once per second. Tests entire intake->storage->query path when paired with an alert on that table.
`native_port`	9000	The port on which to serve the ClickHouse plaintext native protocol.
`native_tls_port`	9440	The port on which to serve the ClickHouse TLS native protocol.
`otel_endpoint`	null	Send OTLP data to the HTTP server at this URL.
`overcommit`	false	When true, turn off memory reservations and limits for Kubernetes pods. Useful when running on a single node Kubernetes cluster with constrained resources.
`partition_vacuum_batch_size`	10000	Number of entries to fetch from partition providers on each request.
`partition_vacuum_dry_run`	true	If true, Partition Vacuum will only log it's intentions and take no action.
`partition_vacuum_enabled`	true	Whether or not the Partition Vacuum CronJob should run.
`partition_vacuum_grace_period`	24h	Minimum age of a partition before it is considered for deactivation or deletion expressed as a duration string.
`partition_vacuum_schedule`	`0 1 * * *`	CRON schedule for Partition Vacuum CronJob.
`pg_ssl_mode`	"disable"	Determines whether and with what priority an SSL connection will be negotiated when connecting to a Postgres server. See here for more details.	"disable", "require", "verify-ca", "verify-full"
`prune_locks_enabled`	true	Whether or not the Prune Locks CronJob should run.
`prune_locks_grace_period`	"24h"	Minimum age of a lock before it is considered for removal expressed as a duration string.
`prune_locks_schedule`	`30 0 * * *`	CRON schedule for Prune Locks CronJob.
`prometheus_retention_time`		When to remove old prometheus data. Example: 15d
`prometheus_retention_size`		The maximum number of bytes of prometheus data to retain. Units supported: B, KB, MB, GB, TB, PB, EB
`pools`	null	A list of dictionaries describing pools to deploy as part of the Hydrolix cluster. See here for more details.
`query_peer_liveness_check_path`	(appropriate path)	The HTTP path used to configure a kubernetes liveness check for query-peers. Set to 'none' to disable.
`registry`	"public.ecr.aws/l2i3s2a2"	A docker registry to pull Hydrolix containers from.
`rejects_vacuum_dry_run`	false	If enabled, the Rejects Vacuum CronJob will not delete files, but instead log files it would have deleted.
`rejects_vacuum_enabled`	true	Whether or not the Rejects Vacuum CronJob should run.
`rejects_vacuum_max_age`	168h	How old a rejects file should be before deleted, expressed as a duration string (e.g. 1h5m4s).
`rejects_vacuum_period_mins`	180	How often (in minutes) to run the Vacuum Rejects job.
`rejects_vacuum_schedule`	`0 0 * * *`	CRON schedule for Reject Vacuum CronJob.
`s3_endpoint`	""	The endpoint used to communicate with S3.
`sample_data_url`	""	The storage bucket URL used to load sample data.
`scale`	null	A list of dictionaries describing overrides for scale related configuration for Hydrolix services For more information, see Scaling your Cluster.
`scale_off`	false	When true, override all deployment and statefulset replica counts with a value of 0 and disable vector Scale your Hydrolix deployment to 0. For more information, see Scaling your Cluster.
`scale_profile`	"eval"	Selects from a set of predefined defaults for scale.
`sdk_timeout_sec`	300	How many seconds Merge should be given to run before it is killed.
`skip_init_turbine_api`	false	Skips running database migrations in the init-turbine-api job. Set to true when running multiple clusters with a shared database.
`stale_job_monitor_batch_size`	300	How many jobs to probe in a single request.
`stale_job_monitor_enabled`	true	Whether or not the Statel Job Monitor CronJob should run.
`stale_job_monitor_limit`	3000	How many jobs in total StaleJob will process per cycle.
`str_dict_enabled`	true	Enable/disable multi-threaded string dictionary decoding.
`str_dict_nr_threads`	8	Sets the maximum number of concurrent vCPU used for decoding.
`str_dict_min_dict_size`	32768	Controls the number of entries in each string dictionary block.
`stream_concurrency_limit`	null	The number of concurrent stream requests per CPU, allocated across all pods, beyond which traefik will return 429 busy error responses. If not set or set to null, no limit is enforced.
`stream_partition_block`	6	The number of partitions to use on a non-default redpanda stream topic per TB/day of usage.
`stream_partition_count`	50	The number of partitions for the internal redpanda topic used by the Stream Ingest service.
`stream_replication_factor`	3	The replication factor for the internal Redpanda topic used by the Stream Ingest service.
`targeting`	null	Specify target node where the hydrolix resources can run in the k8s cluster. See here for more details.
`task_monitor_enabled`	true	Whether or not the Task Monitor CronJob should run.
`task_monitor_heartbeat_timeout`	600	How old a tasks heartbeat should be (in seconds) before it is timed out.
`task_monitor_schedule`	`/2 * * *`	CRON schedule for Task Monitor.
`task_monitor_start_timeout`	21600	How old a ready task should be (in seconds) before it is considered lost and timed out.
`traefik_service_type`	"public_lb", "private_lb", "node_port", "cluster_ip"	Specifies the type of Load-balancer to use for the cluster. Default is to use a public load-balancer. If `private_lb` is chosen and the cluster is running on eks or gke an internal load-balancer will be provisioned. `node_port` can be used for a customer provided ELB or `cluster_ip` to not set up anything related to exposing the service outside of the Kubernetes cluster itself.
`turbine_api_init_pools`	false	If enabled, the turbine-api component initializes some pools.
`unified_auth`	true	Enforce centralized API authentication for ingest endpoints and other endpoints served by traefik. Unified Authentication has been true by default since the 4.6 release. It is incompatible with basic_auth.
`use_https_with_s3`	true	Whether or not to use HTTPS when communicating with S3.
`use_crunchydata_postgres`	false	Use a postgres managed by Crunchydata's postgres operator instead of the default dev mode postgres.
`vector_bucket`	null	Bucket where Vector should save JSON format pod logs.
`vector_bucket_path`	"logs"	Prefix under which Vector saves pod logs.

Kubernetes Secrets

Some Hydrolix settings requires sensitive data, including passwords or secrets:

Variable	Default Value	Description
`ROOT_DB_PASSWORD`	null	The admin password of the PostgreSQL server used as the Hydrolix Catalog.
`AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`	null	AWS service account secret key used to connect to AWS and external AWS services.
`AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY`	null	Azure secret key used to connect to Azure blob storage.
`TRAEFIK_PASSWORD`	random	Default password when `basic_auth` is enabled. For more information, see IP Access and TLS.