Configuration

Platformatic Service configured with a configuration file. It supports the use of environment variables as setting values with configuration placeholders.

Configuration file

If the Platformatic CLI finds a file in the current working directory matching one of these filenames, it will automatically load it:

• platformatic.service.json
• platformatic.service.json5
• platformatic.service.yml or platformatic.service.yaml
• platformatic.service.tml or platformatic.service.toml

Alternatively, a --config option with a configuration filepath can be passed to most platformatic service CLI commands.

The configuration examples in this reference use JSON.

Supported formats

Format	Extensions
JSON	.json
JSON5	.json5
YAML	.yml, .yaml
TOML	.tml

Comments are supported by the JSON5, YAML and TOML file formats.

Settings

Configuration settings are organised into the following groups:

• server (required)
• service
• metrics
• plugins
• telemetry
• watch
• clients

Sensitive configuration settings, such as a database connection URL that contains a password, should be set using configuration placeholders.

server

A object with the following settings:

• hostname (required, string) — Hostname where Platformatic Service server will listen for connections.

• port (required, number or string) — Port where Platformatic Service server will listen for connections.

• healthCheck (boolean or object) — Enables the health check endpoint.

  • Powered by @fastify/under-pressure.
  • The value can be an object, used to specify the interval between checks in milliseconds (default: 5000)

  Example

  {
    "server": {
      ...
      "healthCheck": {
        "interval": 2000
      }
    }
  }

• cors (object) — Configuration for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) headers.

  • All options will be passed to the @fastify/cors plugin. In order to specify a RegExp object, you can pass { regexp: 'yourregexp' }, it will be automatically converted

• https (object) - Configuration for HTTPS supporting the following options.

  • key (required, string, object, or array) - If key is a string, it specifies the private key to be used. If key is an object, it must have a path property specifying the private key file. Multiple keys are supported by passing an array of keys.
  • cert (required, string, object, or array) - If cert is a string, it specifies the certificate to be used. If cert is an object, it must have a path property specifying the certificate file. Multiple certificates are supported by passing an array of keys.

• logger (object) -- the logger configuration.

• pluginTimeout (integer) -- the number of milliseconds to wait for a Fastify plugin to load

• bodyLimit (integer) -- the maximum request body size in bytes

• maxParamLength (integer) -- the maximum length of a request parameter

• caseSensitive (boolean) -- if true, the router will be case sensitive

• ignoreTrailingSlash (boolean) -- if true, the router will ignore the trailing slash

• connectionTimeout (integer) -- the milliseconds to wait for a new HTTP request

• keepAliveTimeout (integer) -- the milliseconds to wait for a keep-alive HTTP request

• maxRequestsPerSocket (integer) -- the maximum number of requests per socket

• forceCloseConnections (boolean or "idle") -- if true, the server will close all connections when it is closed

• requestTimeout (integer) -- the milliseconds to wait for a request to be completed

• disableRequestLogging (boolean) -- if true, the request logger will be disabled

• exposeHeadRoutes (boolean) -- if true, the router will expose HEAD routes

• serializerOpts (object) -- the serializer options

• requestIdHeader (string or false) -- the name of the header that will contain the request id

• requestIdLogLabel (string) -- Defines the label used for the request identifier when logging the request. default: 'reqId'

• jsonShorthand (boolean) -- default: true -- visit fastify docs for more details

• trustProxy (boolean or integer or string or String[]) -- default: false -- visit fastify docs for more details

tip

See the fastify docs for more details.

metrics

Configuration for a Prometheus server that will export monitoring metrics for the current server instance. It uses fastify-metrics under the hood.

This setting can be a boolean or an object. If set to true the Prometheus server will listen on http://0.0.0.0:9090.

Supported object properties:

• server (enum) — Can be set to "own", "parent" or "hide" determines if metrics will be served on a different server or the same server as the Platformatic application or hidden at all.
• hostname (string) — The hostname where Prometheus server will listen for connections, should be used only if server is set to "own".
• port (number or string) — The port where Prometheus server will listen for connections, should be used only if server is set to "own".
• endpoint (string) — The endpoint on which metrics will be served.
• auth (object) — Basic Auth configuration. username and password are required here (use environment variables).

plugins

An optional object that defines the plugins loaded by Platformatic Service.

• packages: : an array of packages/modules (string) or an array of objects composed as follows:
  • name (string): the name of the package to import; required.
  • options (object): Optional plugin options.
• paths (optional, array): an array of paths (string) or an array of objects composed as follows,
  • path (string): Relative path to plugin's entry point.
  • options (object): Optional plugin options.
  • encapsulate (boolean): if the path is a folder, it instruct Platformatic to not encapsulate those plugins.
  • maxDepth (integer): if the path is a folder, it limits the depth to load the content from.
  • autoHooks (boolean): Apply hooks from autohooks.js file(s) to plugins found in folder.
  • autoHooksPattern (string): Regex to override the autohooks naming convention.
  • cascadeHooks (boolean): If using autoHooks, cascade hooks to all children. Ignored if autoHooks is false.
  • overwriteHooks (boolean): If using cascadeHooks, cascade will be reset when a new autohooks.js file is encountered. Ignored if autoHooks is false.
  • routeParams (boolean): Folders prefixed with _ will be turned into route parameters.
  • forceESM (boolean): If set to 'true' it always use await import to load plugins or hooks.
  • ignoreFilter (string): Filter matching any path that should not be loaded. Can be a RegExp, a string or a function returning a boolean.
  • matchFilter (string): Filter matching any path that should be loaded. Can be a RegExp, a string or a function returning a boolean.
  • ignorePattern (string): RegExp matching any file or folder that should not be loaded.
  • indexPattern (string): Regex to override the index.js naming convention
• typescript (boolean or object): enable TypeScript compilation. A tsconfig.json file is required in the same folder. See TypeScript compilation options for more details.

Example

{
  "plugins": {
    "packages": [{
      "name": "@fastify/compress",
      "options": {
        "threshold": 1
      }
    }],
    "paths": [{
      "path": "./my-plugin.js",
      "options": {
        "foo": "bar"
      }
    }]
  }
}

typescript compilation options

The typescript can also be an object to customize the compilation. Here are the supported options:

• enabled (boolean or string): enables compilation
• tsConfig (string): path to the tsconfig.json file relative to the configuration
• outDir (string): the output directory of tsconfig.json, in case tsconfig.json is not available and enabled is set to false (production build)
• flags (array of string): flags to be passed to tsc. Overrides tsConfig.

Example:

{
  "plugins": {
    "paths": [{
      "path": "./my-plugin.js",
      "options": {
        "foo": "bar"
      }
    }],
    "typescript": {
      "enabled": false,
      "tsConfig": "./path/to/tsconfig.json",
      "outDir": "dist"
    }
  }
}

watch

Enables watching for file changes if set to true or "true". It can also be customized with the following options:

• enabled (boolean or string): enables watching.

• ignore (string[], default: null): List of glob patterns to ignore when watching for changes. If null or not specified, ignore rule is not applied. Ignore option doesn't work for typescript files.

• allow (string[], default: ['*.js', '**/*.js']): List of glob patterns to allow when watching for changes. If null or not specified, allow rule is not applied. Allow option doesn't work for typescript files.

  Example

  {
    "watch": {
      "ignore": ["*.mjs", "**/*.mjs"],
      "allow": ["my-plugin.js", "plugins/*.js"]
    }
  }

service

Configure @platformatic/service specific settings such as graphql or openapi:

• graphql (boolean or object, default: false) — Controls the GraphQL API interface, with optional GraphiQL UI.

  Examples

  Enables GraphQL support

  {
    "service": {
      "graphql": true
    }
  }

  Enables GraphQL support with GraphiQL

  {
    "service": {
      "graphql": {
        "graphiql": true
      }
    }
  }

• openapi (boolean or object, default: false) — Enables OpenAPI REST support.

  • If value is an object, all OpenAPI v3 allowed properties can be passed. Also a prefix property can be passed to set the OpenAPI prefix.
  • Platformatic Service uses @fastify/swagger under the hood to manage this configuration.

  Examples

  Enables OpenAPI

  {
    "service": {
      ...
      "openapi": true
    }
  }

  Enables OpenAPI with prefix

  {
    "service": {
      "openapi": {
        "prefix": "/api"
      }
    }
  }

  Enables OpenAPI with options

  {
    "service": {
      "openapi": {
        "info": {
          "title": "Platformatic Service",
          "description": "Exposing a SQL database as REST"
        }
      }
    }
  }

telemetry

Open Telemetry is optionally supported with these settings:

• serviceName (required, string) — Name of the service as will be reported in open telemetry.
• version (string) — Optional version (free form)
• skip (array). Optional list of operations to skip when exporting telemetry defined object with properties:
  • method: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE
  • path. e.g.: /documentation/json
• exporter (object or array) — Exporter configuration. If not defined, the exporter defaults to console. If an array of objects is configured, every object must be a valid exporter object. The exporter object has the following properties:
  • type (string) — Exporter type. Supported values are console, otlp, zipkin and memory (default: console). memory is only supported for testing purposes.
  • options (object) — These options are supported:
    • url (string) — The URL to send the telemetry to. Required for otlp exporter. This has no effect on console and memory exporters.
    • headers (object) — Optional headers to send with the telemetry. This has no effect on console and memory exporters.

Note that OTLP traces can be consumed by different solutions, like Jaeger. Here the full list.

Example

{
  "telemetry": {
      "serviceName": "test-service",
      "exporter": {
          "type": "otlp",
          "options": {
              "url": "http://localhost:4318/v1/traces"
          }
      }
  }
}

clients

An array of Platformatic Client configurations that will be loaded by Platformatic Service.

• serviceId (string) - The ID of Platformatic Service inside the Platformatic Runtime. Used only in Platformatic Runtime context.
• name (string) - The name of the client.
• type (string) - The type of the client. Supported values are graphql and openapi.
• schema (string) - Path to the generated client schema file.
• path (string) - Path to the generated client folder.
• url (string) - The URL of the service that the client will connect to.

Environment variable placeholders

The value for any configuration setting can be replaced with an environment variable by adding a placeholder in the configuration file, for example {PLT_SERVER_LOGGER_LEVEL}.

Example

platformatic.service.json

{
  "server": {
    "port": "{PORT}"
  }
}

Platformatic will replace the placeholders in this example with the environment variables of the same name.

Setting environment variables

If a .env file exists it will automatically be loaded by Platformatic using dotenv. For example:

.env

PLT_SERVER_LOGGER_LEVEL=info
PORT=8080

The .env file must be located in the same folder as the Platformatic configuration file or in the current working directory.

Environment variables can also be set directly on the command line, for example:

PLT_SERVER_LOGGER_LEVEL=debug npx platformatic service

PLT_ROOT

The {PLT_ROOT} placeholder is automatically set to the directory containing the configuration file, so it can be used to configure relative paths.