Environment variables

Boltzmann's built-in features are configurable using environment variables.

Boltzmann respects the following environment variables out of the box:

• NODE_ENV: dev(elopment), prod(uction), or test; consumed by are-we-dev
• LOG_LEVEL: one of error, warn, info, debug; defaults to debug
• PORT: the port to listen on; defaults to 5000; boltzmann always binds 0.0.0.0.
• DEV_LATENCY_ERROR_MS: in dev mode, the length of time a middleware is allowed to run before it's treated as hung
• DEV_LATENCY_WARNING_MS: in dev mode, the length of time a middleware can run before you get a warning that it's slow
• GIT_COMMIT: a bit of text labeled as the git hash for the current running service; used by the optional status endpoint
• HONEYCOMBIO_DATASET: the name of your Honeycomb dataset, if you have enabled the feature
• HONEYCOMBIO_WRITE_KEY: a write key, if you have enabled the Honeycomb feature
• PGURL & PGPOOLSIZE: passed to the postgres pool constructor, if postgres is enabled
• REDIS_URL: passed to redis client constructor, if redis is enabled
• SERVICE_NAME: the name of the service to advertise to Honeycomb and others; falls back to the name of your package in package.json

The framework does not express any opinions about how this environment is set up. In development you can use dotenv with an invocation like this:

node -r dotenv/config ./boltzmann.js