Logfire Self-Hosted Service Architecture

The Self-hosted deployment has a number of interdependent services that work to run logfire. Each component can be scaled independently of others depending on the utilisation of the system.

Service Dependency Diagram

graph
    %% Entry point
    LS[logfire-service:8080]

    %% Core services
    LB[logfire-backend:8000]
    RD[logfire-redis:6379]
    FIA[logfire-ff-ingest:8012]
    FQA[logfire-ff-query-api:8011]
    FCC[logfire-ff-cache:9001]
    MW[logfire-maintenance-worker]

    OS[(Object Storage)]
    PG[(Postgres DB)]

    %% Connections from entry point
    LS --> LB
    LS --> FIA

    FQA --> FCC
    FQA --> PG
    FQA --> RD
    FQA --> OS

    LB --> FQA
    LB --> RD

    FIA --> PG
    FIA --> RD
    FIA --> OS

    FCC --> OS

    MW --> PG
    MW --> OS

Service Descriptions

Entry Point

• logfire-service (Port 8080): Main entry point for the system

Core Services

• logfire-backend (Port 8000): Backend service handling business logic, frontend and authentication
• logfire-ff-ingest (Port 8012): API for data ingestion
• logfire-ff-query-api (Port 8011): API for querying data
• logfire-ff-maintenance-worker: Maintenance Jobs
• logfire-ff-compaction-worker: Compaction Jobs
• logfire-redis: Live query streaming and autocomplete cache
• logfire-ff-cache (Port 9001 via logfire-ff-conhash-cache consistent hashing): Cache service