Icon LinkIndexer Service Infrastructure

A Fuel indexer service instance requires just three components:

a Fuel Node: Custom indexers monitor incoming blocks via a Fuel GraphQL server and extract information about the state of the Fuel blockchain.
a PostgresQL database server: Extracted information is saved into a database.
a Web Server: dApps can query indexers for up-to-date information and operators can deploy/remove indexers as needed.

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Component	Default Host	Default Port	CLI Argument	Environment Variable
Fuel Node	localhost	4000	`--fuel-node-{host,port}`	$FUEL_NODE_{HOST,PORT}
Database Server	localhost	5432	`--postgres-{username,database,password,host,port}`	$POSTGRES_{USERNAME,DATABASE,PASSWORD,HOST,PORT}
Indexer Service Web API	localhost	29987	`--web-api-{host,port}`	$WEB_API_{HOST,PORT}

The Fuel indexer service will connect to any Fuel GraphQL server, which means you can run your own node or use a node provided by Fuel. The indexer service web server is included with the Fuel indexer; it's available as soon as the indexer is started through fuel-indexer run. The only component that isn't provided for you is a Postgres database server. You should set up a server according to your own needs and specifications.

You can start the indexer service with an array of CLI options. Note that most (if not all) of these options include sensible defaults.

Icon LinkUsing CLI options (Indexer Service)

fuel-indexer run --help

Standalone binary for the fuel indexer service.

USAGE:
    fuel-indexer run [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
        --accept-sql-queries
            Allow the web server to accept raw SQL queries.

        --auth-enabled
            Require users to authenticate for some operations.

        --auth-strategy <AUTH_STRATEGY>
            Authentication scheme used.

        --block-page-size <BLOCK_PAGE_SIZE>
            Amount of blocks to return in a request to a Fuel node. [default: 10]

    -c, --config <FILE>
            Indexer service config file.

        --database <DATABASE>
            Database type. [default: postgres] [possible values: postgres]

        --embedded-database
            Automatically create and start database using provided options or defaults.

        --fuel-node-host <FUEL_NODE_HOST>
            Host of the running Fuel node. [default: localhost]

        --fuel-node-port <FUEL_NODE_PORT>
            Listening port of the running Fuel node. [default: 4000]

    -h, --help
            Print help information

        --indexer-net-config
            Allow network configuration via indexer manifests.

        --jwt-expiry <JWT_EXPIRY>
            Amount of time (seconds) before expiring token (if JWT scheme is specified).

        --jwt-issuer <JWT_ISSUER>
            Issuer of JWT claims (if JWT scheme is specified).

        --jwt-secret <JWT_SECRET>
            Secret used for JWT scheme (if JWT scheme is specified).

        --local-fuel-node
            Start a local Fuel node.

        --log-level <LOG_LEVEL>
            Log level passed to the Fuel Indexer service. [default: info] [possible values: info,
            debug, error, warn]

    -m, --manifest <FILE>
            Indexer config file.

        --max-body-size <MAX_BODY_SIZE>
            Max body size for web server requests. [default: 5242880]

        --metering-points <METERING_POINTS>
            The number of WASM opcodes after which the indexer's event handler will stop execution.
            [default: 30000000000]

        --metrics
            Use Prometheus metrics reporting.

        --postgres-database <POSTGRES_DATABASE>
            Postgres database.

        --postgres-host <POSTGRES_HOST>
            Postgres host.

        --postgres-password <POSTGRES_PASSWORD>
            Postgres password.

        --postgres-port <POSTGRES_PORT>
            Postgres port.

        --postgres-user <POSTGRES_USER>
            Postgres username.

        --rate-limit
            Enable rate limiting.

        --rate-limit-request-count <RATE_LIMIT_REQUEST_COUNT>
            Maximum number of requests to allow over --rate-limit-window..

        --rate-limit-window-size <RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SIZE>
            Number of seconds over which to allow --rate-limit-rps.

        --replace-indexer
            Whether to allow replacing an existing indexer. If not specified, an attempt to deploy
            over an existing indexer results in an error.

        --run-migrations
            Run database migrations before starting service.

        --stop-idle-indexers
            Prevent indexers from running without handling any blocks.

    -v, --verbose
            Enable verbose logging.

    -V, --version
            Print version information

        --web-api-host <WEB_API_HOST>
            Web API host. [default: localhost]

        --web-api-port <WEB_API_PORT>
            Web API port. [default: 29987]

Icon LinkUsing a configuration file (Indexer Service)

Icon LinkWeb API Server

The fuel-indexer-api-server crate of the Fuel indexer contains a standalone web server that acts as a queryable endpoint on top of the database. Note that the main fuel-indexer binary of the indexer project also contains the same web server endpoint.

The fuel-indexer-api-server crate offers a standalone web server endpoint, whereas the API endpoint offered in fuel-indexer is bundled with other Fuel indexer functionality (e.g., execution, handling, data-layer construction, etc). Offering the API server as a separate piece allows users to separate components and run them on different systems, if desired.

Icon LinkUsing CLI Options (Web Server)

You can start the indexer service with an array of CLI options. Note that most (if not all) of these options include sensible defaults.

fuel-indexer-api-server run --help

Fuel indexer web server

USAGE:
    fuel-indexer-api-server run [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
        --accept-sql-queries
            Allow the web server to accept raw SQL queries.

        --auth-enabled
            Require users to authenticate for some operations.

        --auth-strategy <AUTH_STRATEGY>
            Authentication scheme used. [possible values: jwt]

    -c, --config <CONFIG>
            API server config file.

        --database <DATABASE>
            Database type. [default: postgres] [possible values: postgres]

        --fuel-node-host <FUEL_NODE_HOST>
            Host of the running Fuel node. [default: localhost]

        --fuel-node-port <FUEL_NODE_PORT>
            Listening port of the running Fuel node. [default: 4000]

    -h, --help
            Print help information

        --jwt-expiry <JWT_EXPIRY>
            Amount of time (seconds) before expiring token (if JWT scheme is specified).

        --jwt-issuer <JWT_ISSUER>
            Issuer of JWT claims (if JWT scheme is specified).

        --jwt-secret <JWT_SECRET>
            Secret used for JWT scheme (if JWT scheme is specified).

        --log-level <LOG_LEVEL>
            Log level passed to the Fuel Indexer service. [default: info] [possible values: info,
            debug, error, warn]

        --max-body-size <MAX_BODY_SIZE>
            Max body size for web requests. [default: 5242880]

        --metrics
            Use Prometheus metrics reporting.

        --postgres-database <POSTGRES_DATABASE>
            Postgres database.

        --postgres-host <POSTGRES_HOST>
            Postgres host.

        --postgres-password <POSTGRES_PASSWORD>
            Postgres password.

        --postgres-port <POSTGRES_PORT>
            Postgres port.

        --postgres-user <POSTGRES_USER>
            Postgres username.

        --rate-limit
            Enable rate limiting.

        --rate-limit-request-count <RATE_LIMIT_REQUEST_COUNT>
            Maximum number of requests to allow over --rate-limit-window..

        --rate-limit-window-size <RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SIZE>
            Number of seconds over which to allow --rate-limit-rps.

        --run-migrations
            Run database migrations before starting service.

    -v, --verbose
            Enable verbose logging.

    -V, --version
            Print version information

        --web-api-host <WEB_API_HOST>
            Web API host. [default: localhost]

        --web-api-port <WEB_API_PORT>
            Web API port. [default: 29987]

Icon LinkUsing A Configuration File (Web Server)

To run the standalone Fuel indexer web server server using a configuration file:

fuel-indexer-api-server run --config config.yaml

In the above example, config.yaml is based on the default service configuration file Icon Link.

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