Environment Variables

Tracearr uses environment variables for core configuration.

Required Variables

Variable	Description	Example
`DATABASE_URL`	PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB connection string	`postgres://user:pass@host:5432/tracearr`
`REDIS_URL`	Redis connection string	`redis://localhost:6379`

Tracearr requires TimescaleDB (PostgreSQL with the TimescaleDB extension) for time-series data storage.


DATABASE_URL=postgres://tracearr:password@localhost:5432/tracearr

Redis is used for caching and background job queues.


REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379

For Redis with authentication:


REDIS_URL=redis://:password@localhost:6379