Server Configuration

Configure Dagu server settings.

Deployment Model

This page documents self-hosted Dagu server configuration. Hosted Dagu Cloud includes managed authentication, audit logging, and related platform services by default, so you typically do not configure those features through config.yaml there. See the pricing page for current self-host and cloud availability.

Configuration Methods

Precedence order:

1. Command-line flags (highest)
2. Environment variables (DAGU_ prefix)
3. Configuration file (lowest)

# CLI flag wins
dagu start-all --port=8000

# Even with env var
export DAGU_PORT=8080

# And config file
port: 7000

Configuration File

Location: ~/.config/dagu/config.yaml

# Server Configuration
host: "127.0.0.1"         # Web UI binding host
port: 8080                # Web UI binding port
base_path: ""              # Base path for reverse proxy (e.g., "/dagu")
api_base_path: "/api/v1"    # API endpoint base path
tz: "Asia/Tokyo"          # Server timezone
debug: false              # Debug mode
log_format: "text"         # Log format: "text" or "json"
access_log_mode: "all"     # Access log mode: "all" (default), "non-public", or "none"
headless: false           # Run without Web UI
check_updates: true       # Automatic web UI update checks (default: true)
metrics: "private"        # Metrics endpoint access: "private" (default) or "public"

# Directory Paths (must be under "paths" key)
paths:
  dags_dir: "~/.config/dagu/dags"                    # DAG definitions
  docs_dir: ""                                       # Auto: {dags_dir}/docs
  log_dir: "~/.local/share/dagu/logs"                # Log files
  data_dir: "~/.local/share/dagu/data"               # Application data
  suspend_flags_dir: "~/.local/share/dagu/suspend"    # Suspend flags
  admin_logs_dir: "~/.local/share/dagu/logs/admin"    # Admin logs
  event_store_dir: ""                                 # Auto: {admin_logs_dir}/events
  base_config: "~/.config/dagu/base.yaml"            # Base configuration
  dag_runs_dir: ""                                    # Auto: {data_dir}/dag-runs
  queue_dir: ""                                      # Auto: {data_dir}/queue
  proc_dir: ""                                       # Auto: {data_dir}/proc
  contexts_dir: ""                                   # Auto: {data_dir}/contexts
  executable: ""                                    # Auto: current executable

# Permissions
permissions:
  write_dags: true         # Allow creating/editing/deleting DAGs
  run_dags: true           # Allow running/stopping/retrying DAGs

# Authentication
auth:
  mode: "builtin"              # "none", "basic", or "builtin" (default)

  # Builtin auth (JWT sessions, API keys, and role-based access)
  builtin:
    token:
      secret: "your-secret"    # Auto-generated if not set
      ttl: "24h"

  # Basic auth (simple username/password)
  basic:
    username: "admin"
    password: "secret"

  # OIDC auth (auto-enabled under builtin mode when all required fields are set)
  oidc:
    client_id: "your-client-id"
    client_secret: "your-client-secret"
    client_url: "http://localhost:8080"
    issuer: "https://accounts.google.com"
    scopes: ["openid", "profile", "email"]
    whitelist: ["[email protected]"]
    # Builtin-specific fields (only used when mode: builtin)
    auto_signup: true                 # Auto-create users on first login
    role_mapping:
      default_role: "viewer"          # Role for new users
    allowed_domains: ["company.com"]  # Allowed email domains
    button_label: "Login with SSO"    # SSO button text

# TLS/HTTPS Configuration
tls:
  cert_file: "/path/to/cert.pem"
  key_file: "/path/to/key.pem"

# UI Customization
ui:
  navbar_color: "#1976d2"        # Header color (hex or name)
  navbar_title: "Dagu"           # Header title
  log_encoding_charset: "utf-8"   # Log file encoding (see reference for supported encodings)
  max_dashboard_page_limit: 100    # Max items on dashboard
  dags:
    sort_field: "name"           # Default DAG list request sort field (`name` or `nextRun`)
    sort_order: "asc"            # Default sort order (asc/desc)

# Latest Status Configuration
latest_status_today: true         # Show only today's latest status

# Execution Mode
default_execution_mode: "local"      # "local" (default) or "distributed"
                                    # When "distributed", all DAGs dispatch to workers

# Terminal Configuration
terminal:
  enabled: false              # Enable web-based terminal (default: false)
  max_sessions: 5             # Maximum concurrent terminal sessions per server

# Audit Logging
audit:
  enabled: true               # Enable audit logging (default: true)
  retention_days: 7            # Days to keep audit logs (default: 7, 0 = keep forever)

# Centralized Event Store
event_store:
  enabled: true               # Enable centralized event logging (default: true)
  retention_days: 3            # Days to keep event log files (default: 3, 0 = keep forever)

# Session Storage
session:
  max_per_user: 100            # Max sessions per user (default: 100, 0 = unlimited)

# Queue System
queues:
  enabled: true                 # Enable queue system (default: true)
  config:
    - name: "critical"
      max_concurrency: 5          # Maximum concurrent DAG runs
    - name: "batch"
      max_concurrency: 1
    - name: "default"
      max_concurrency: 2

# Remote Nodes
remote_nodes:
  - name: "staging"
    api_base_url: "https://staging.example.com/api/v1"
    auth_type: "basic"
    basic_auth_username: "admin"
    basic_auth_password: "password"
  - name: "production"
    api_base_url: "https://prod.example.com/api/v1"
    auth_type: "token"
    auth_token: "prod-token"
    skip_tls_verify: false

Environment Variables

All options support DAGU_ prefix:

Server:

• DAGU_HOST - Host (default: 127.0.0.1)
• DAGU_PORT - Port (default: 8080)
• DAGU_TZ - Timezone
• DAGU_DEBUG - Debug mode
• DAGU_LOG_FORMAT - Log format (text/json)
• DAGU_ACCESS_LOG_MODE - Access log mode: all (default), non-public, or none
• DAGU_CHECK_UPDATES - Enable automatic web UI update checks (default: true)
• DAGU_SERVER_METRICS - Metrics endpoint access: private (default) or public

Paths:

• DAGU_HOME - Set all paths
• DAGU_DAGS_DIR - DAGs directory
• DAGU_LOG_DIR - Logs
• DAGU_DATA_DIR - Data
• DAGU_EVENT_STORE_DIR - Centralized event log directory
• DAGU_CONTEXTS_DIR - CLI contexts directory

Auth:

• DAGU_AUTH_MODE - Auth mode: none, basic, or builtin (default: builtin)

Builtin Auth (RBAC):

• DAGU_AUTH_TOKEN_SECRET - JWT signing secret (auto-generated if not set)
• DAGU_AUTH_TOKEN_TTL - JWT token expiry (default: 24h)

Basic Auth:

• DAGU_AUTH_BASIC_USERNAME - Basic auth username
• DAGU_AUTH_BASIC_PASSWORD - Basic auth password

OIDC Auth:

• DAGU_AUTH_OIDC_CLIENT_ID - OIDC client ID
• DAGU_AUTH_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET - OIDC client secret
• DAGU_AUTH_OIDC_CLIENT_URL - OIDC client URL
• DAGU_AUTH_OIDC_ISSUER - OIDC issuer URL
• DAGU_AUTH_OIDC_SCOPES - OIDC scopes (comma-separated)
• DAGU_AUTH_OIDC_WHITELIST - OIDC email whitelist (comma-separated)
• DAGU_AUTH_OIDC_AUTO_SIGNUP - Auto-create users on first login (default: true)
• DAGU_AUTH_OIDC_DEFAULT_ROLE - Role for auto-created users (default: viewer)
• DAGU_AUTH_OIDC_ALLOWED_DOMAINS - Allowed email domains (comma-separated)
• DAGU_AUTH_OIDC_BUTTON_LABEL - SSO login button text

UI:

• DAGU_UI_DAGS_SORT_FIELD - Default DAGs page request sort field (name or nextRun)
• DAGU_UI_DAGS_SORT_ORDER - Default DAGs page sort order

Terminal:

• DAGU_TERMINAL_ENABLED - Enable web-based terminal (default: false)
• DAGU_TERMINAL_MAX_SESSIONS - Maximum concurrent terminal sessions (default: 5)

Audit Logging:

• DAGU_AUDIT_ENABLED - Enable audit logging (default: true)
• DAGU_AUDIT_RETENTION_DAYS - Days to keep audit logs (default: 7, 0 = keep forever)

Event Store:

• DAGU_EVENT_STORE_ENABLED - Enable centralized event logging (default: true)
• DAGU_EVENT_STORE_RETENTION_DAYS - Days to keep event log files (default: 3, 0 = keep forever)

Session Storage:

• DAGU_SESSION_MAX_PER_USER - Max sessions per user (default: 100, 0 = unlimited)

Common Setups

Development

host: "127.0.0.1"
port: 8080
debug: true

Production

host: "0.0.0.0"
port: 443
permissions:
  write_dags: false
auth:
  mode: builtin
  builtin:
    token:
      secret: "${AUTH_TOKEN_SECRET}"  # auto-generated if not set
      ttl: "24h"
tls:
  cert_file: "/etc/ssl/cert.pem"
  key_file: "/etc/ssl/key.pem"

Docker

docker run -d \
  -e DAGU_HOST=0.0.0.0 \
  -e DAGU_AUTH_MODE=builtin \
  -e DAGU_AUTH_BUILTIN_INITIAL_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin \
  -e DAGU_AUTH_BUILTIN_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD=your-secure-password \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -v dagu-data:/var/lib/dagu \
  ghcr.io/dagucloud/dagu:latest
# Admin auto-created on first startup; omit INITIAL_ADMIN vars to use the /setup page instead

Authentication

Builtin Auth

Builtin auth provides JWT sessions, initial admin bootstrap, password management, API keys, and the role model used by self-hosted Dagu. On self-hosted Dagu, creating, updating, and deleting additional users requires an active self-host license. Hosted Dagu Cloud includes user management by default. See the pricing page for current self-host and cloud availability. Available roles are admin, manager, developer, operator, and viewer.

auth:
  mode: builtin
  builtin:
    token:
      secret: "${AUTH_TOKEN_SECRET}"  # auto-generated if not set
      ttl: "24h"
    initial_admin:                    # optional — auto-create admin on first startup
      username: admin
      password: "${ADMIN_PASSWORD}"

# Environment variables
export DAGU_AUTH_MODE=builtin
# Token secret auto-generated if not set

# Optional — auto-create admin on first startup (both required together)
export DAGU_AUTH_BUILTIN_INITIAL_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin
export DAGU_AUTH_BUILTIN_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD=your-secure-password

When initial_admin is configured and no users exist, the server creates the admin at startup and skips the setup page. The guided script installers can populate these settings for you during setup. When initial_admin is not configured, visit the web UI on first startup to create your admin account via the setup page.

See Builtin Authentication for detailed setup.

Basic Auth

Simple single-user authentication without user management.

auth:
  mode: basic
  basic:
    username: "admin"
    password: "${ADMIN_PASSWORD}"

OIDC Authentication

Builtin + OIDC (SSO with user management and RBAC):

auth:
  mode: builtin
  builtin:
    token:
      secret: "${AUTH_TOKEN_SECRET}"
  oidc:
    client_id: "${OIDC_CLIENT_ID}"
    client_secret: "${OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET}"
    client_url: "https://dagu.example.com"
    issuer: "https://accounts.google.com"
    auto_signup: true
    role_mapping:
      default_role: viewer

See OIDC Configuration for detailed setup.

TLS/HTTPS

Let's Encrypt:

certbot certonly --standalone -d dagu.example.com

export DAGU_CERT_FILE=/etc/letsencrypt/live/dagu.example.com/fullchain.pem
export DAGU_KEY_FILE=/etc/letsencrypt/live/dagu.example.com/privkey.pem

Behind Nginx:

# config.yaml
base_path: "/dagu"
host: "127.0.0.1"
port: 8080

location /dagu/ {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}

UI Customization

ui:
  navbar_color: "#1976d2"
  navbar_title: "Workflows"
  log_encoding_charset: "utf-8"

Color suggestions:

• Production: #ff0000 (red)
• Staging: #ff9800 (orange)
• Development: #4caf50 (green)

Log Encoding

The log_encoding_charset option specifies the character encoding used to read log files in the UI. This is useful when your DAG steps produce output in non-UTF-8 encodings.

Common encodings:

• utf-8 (default) - Unicode
• shift_jis, euc-jp - Japanese
• gb2312, gbk, gb18030 - Simplified Chinese
• big5 - Traditional Chinese
• euc-kr - Korean
• iso-8859-1 through iso-8859-16 - Latin/European
• windows-1250 through windows-1258 - Windows code pages
• koi8-r, koi8-u - Cyrillic

See Configuration Reference - Supported Log Encodings for the complete list of 50+ supported encodings.

Example for Japanese logs:

ui:
  log_encoding_charset: "shift_jis"

Environment variable:

export DAGU_UI_LOG_ENCODING_CHARSET="shift_jis"

Remote Nodes

remote_nodes:
  - name: "production"
    api_base_url: "https://prod.example.com/api/v1"
    auth_type: "basic"
    basic_auth_username: "admin"
    basic_auth_password: "${PROD_PASSWORD}"

  - name: "staging"
    api_base_url: "https://staging.example.com/api/v1"
    auth_type: "token"
    auth_token: "${STAGING_TOKEN}"

Queues

See Queue Configuration for full documentation.

queues:
  enabled: true
  config:
    - name: "critical"
      max_concurrency: 5
    - name: "batch"
      max_concurrency: 1
    - name: "default"
      max_concurrency: 2

Base Configuration

~/.config/dagu/base.yaml provides shared defaults for all DAGs:

mail_on:
  failure: true

smtp:
  host: "smtp.company.com"
  port: "587"
  username: "${SMTP_USER}"
  password: "${SMTP_PASS}"

env:
  - ENVIRONMENT: production

See Base Configuration for complete documentation on all available fields and inheritance behavior.

Metrics Endpoint

Dagu exposes Prometheus metrics at /api/v1/metrics. By default, this endpoint requires authentication.

Configuration

# Require authentication (default)
metrics: "private"

# Allow public access (no authentication required)
metrics: "public"

Or via environment variable:

export DAGU_SERVER_METRICS=public

Prometheus Scraping

When metrics is set to private (default), configure Prometheus to authenticate:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'dagu'
    bearer_token: 'your-api-token'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['dagu:8080']
    metrics_path: '/api/v1/metrics'

Or with basic auth:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'dagu'
    basic_auth:
      username: 'admin'
      password: 'secret'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['dagu:8080']
    metrics_path: '/api/v1/metrics'

When metrics is set to public, no authentication is needed:

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'dagu'
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['dagu:8080']
    metrics_path: '/api/v1/metrics'

Cache Configuration

Dagu uses in-memory caches to improve performance. Cache limits can be configured via presets:

cache: normal   # options: low, normal, high (default: normal)

Or via environment variable:

export DAGU_CACHE=low

Presets

Preset	DAG Definitions	DAG Run Status	API Keys	Webhooks
low	500	5,000	100	100
normal	1,000	10,000	500	500
high	5,000	50,000	1,000	1,000

• low: For memory-constrained environments
• normal: Balanced for typical deployments (default)
• high: For large-scale deployments with many DAGs

TTL (time-to-live): DAG caches expire after 12 hours, API key/webhook caches after 15 minutes.

Monitoring Cache Usage

Use Prometheus metrics to monitor cache sizes:

dagu_cache_entries_total

See Prometheus Metrics for more details.

Terminal

The web-based terminal allows executing shell commands directly from the Dagu UI. This feature is disabled by default for security reasons.

Configuration

terminal:
  enabled: true
  max_sessions: 5

Or via environment variable:

export DAGU_TERMINAL_ENABLED=true
export DAGU_TERMINAL_MAX_SESSIONS=5

Security Notes

• The terminal runs commands with the same permissions as the Dagu server process
• Only enable in trusted environments where users should have shell access
• Consider using authentication (auth.mode: builtin) when enabling terminal access
• New sessions are rejected with HTTP 429 after terminal.max_sessions active terminals
• Terminal sessions are logged in the audit log (when audit logging is enabled)

Audit Logging

Self-Host License

On self-hosted Dagu, audit logging requires an active self-host license. Hosted Dagu Cloud includes audit logging by default. See the pricing page for current self-host and cloud availability.

Dagu maintains audit logs for security-sensitive operations. Audit logging is enabled by default.

Configuration

audit:
  enabled: true   # Enable audit logging (default: true)

Or via environment variable:

export DAGU_AUDIT_ENABLED=false
export DAGU_AUDIT_RETENTION_DAYS=30

Retention

Audit log files are automatically cleaned up based on the retention_days setting:

• Default: 7 days (keeps today plus the 7 previous days)
• Disable cleanup: Set to 0 to keep logs forever
• Cleanup runs on startup, then every 24 hours
• Dates are evaluated in UTC
• Only files matching the YYYY-MM-DD.jsonl naming pattern are affected

Logged Events

When enabled, the following events are recorded:

• Authentication: Login attempts (success/failure), password changes
• User Management: User creation, updates, deletion
• API Keys: Key creation, updates, deletion
• Webhooks: Webhook creation, deletion, token regeneration
• Terminal: Shell command executions

Retention

Audit logs are written as daily records and can be reviewed in the Web UI at Settings > Audit Logs. Keep the admin log directory on persistent storage if you want that history to survive restarts.

Event Store

The centralized event store persists operational events such as DAG-run outcomes and LLM usage records. It is enabled by default in dagu server and dagu start-all.

The /api/v1/event-logs endpoint reads from this store, and the Slack and Telegram DAG-run monitors use it when available.

Configuration

event_store:
  enabled: true
  retention_days: 3

Or via environment variables:

export DAGU_EVENT_STORE_ENABLED=true
export DAGU_EVENT_STORE_RETENTION_DAYS=7

Retention

The event store keeps recent operational history according to event_store.retention_days. Place the admin log directory on persistent storage if you want those records to survive restarts.

Session Limits

Dagu keeps agent chat history per user. To prevent unbounded growth, older sessions are cleaned up automatically when a per-user limit is exceeded.

Configuration

session:
  max_per_user: 100   # Max sessions per user (default: 100, 0 = unlimited)

Or via environment variable:

export DAGU_SESSION_MAX_PER_USER=50

Cleanup Behavior

• When a new session is created and the user exceeds the limit, the oldest sessions are deleted
• Sub-sessions (created by delegate agents) are deleted together with their parent session and do not count toward the limit
• Set to 0 to disable cleanup (keep all sessions)

See Also

• Set up authentication for secure access
• Configure remote nodes for multi-environment management
• Customize the UI for your organization
• Enable HTTPS for encrypted connections
• Configure terminal access for shell access
• Configure audit logging for security monitoring
• Prometheus Metrics for monitoring