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swarm/README.md opens with the swarm and its control plane; hive identity and the directory follow as the substrate. Upgrade notes move into a <details> block, the per-agent queue publishing detail into another, and the one-paragraph pointer sections collapse into a link list. Fact fixes, checked against origin/main: - an empty swarm.hives fails eval (swarm.nix:341-354); it does not mean "not in a swarm" - swarm.domain is required with a hive (hive-network.nix:156,188), hiveName with a hive, store or homeserver (hyperhive.nix:161-166) - the matrix container trusts the hive's trust-bundle.pem at runtime under self-signed certs (hive-matrix.nix:1046-1052, lib/hive-ca-trust.nix:76-85) - singleHostSwarm also defaults the controller, localHostsEntry, the nats callout keys and the bao bootstrap token path (local-defaults.nix:72-129) - swarm-controller serves far more than /health: roster, wanted state, job graph, agent creation and credential mints (main.rs:2874-2899) - swarmctl user add needs --email for the forge account and refuses an existing user (setup.md:67-71, swarmctl/src/main.rs:425-430); document agent mint-identity and mint-forge-token - agent creation also mints store identity, forge token and matrix account, and declares the agent paused (main.rs:1822-1920, 247-248) Refs #3902
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# Swarm-wide services
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Some things exist once per **swarm** rather than once per hive: the forge,
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the matrix homeserver, SSO, the secret store, the queue, and the metrics and
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log stack. This page says which host runs them and what a hive that runs none
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of them configures instead. The all-local quick start sets everything with one
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line → [README](../../README.md#quick-start-an-all-local-swarm).
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Two options say where they live, and everything else derives:
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```nix
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services.hyperhive.deploy.singleHostSwarm = true; # everything on this box
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# or, for a dedicated services host with hives elsewhere:
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services.hyperhive.deploy.allSwarmServices = true;
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```
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**`deploy.allSwarmServices` is what "the swarm's shared services run
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here" means: every once-per-swarm service takes its `enable` from it.** That's the whole rule, stated once — the per-service
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sections below don't repeat it, so a service that stops deriving is a
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visible difference rather than one more paragraph saying the same thing.
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`singleHostSwarm` is the all-on-one-box mode above it. It defaults
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`deploy.allSwarmServices`, the swarm CA (`swarm.ca.autoConfigure`, generated
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on this host), the swarm controller (`deploy.swarm-controller.enable`), the
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host's `/etc/hosts` entries for the names it serves
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(`gateway.localHostsEntry`), the queue's auth-callout keys
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(`deploy.nats.autoGenerateCallout`) and where the secret store's bootstrap
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token goes (`deploy.bao.bootstrapTokenFile`). You can still set each derived
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toggle on its own, which wins, so "all local except X" needs no further
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option.
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**Both default to off**, and that's deliberate: a host can't tell
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whether it's meant to be the swarm's service host, so this is an
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operator saying so rather than something inferred. With them off, a hive
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is a _client_ of those services — it configures how to reach them and
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runs none of them.
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That includes the forge (`deploy.forgejo.enable`). Every swarm needs
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one, being the canonical store for the meta flake and every agent's
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config repo, so **exactly one host must turn it on**: `singleHostSwarm`,
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`allSwarmServices`, or `deploy.forgejo.enable = true` set by hand. A
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host that enables its services one by one without any of those runs no
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forge.
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A hive that runs none of these reaches each one by name — the forge at
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`forge.<swarm-domain>`, for example. Only the host running a service
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answers its name from its own resolver, so on a swarm spread over
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more than one host, the operator's DNS has to resolve those names to that
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host.
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<details><summary>Moving an existing hive's forge to the swarm's</summary>
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A hive that stops running the forge keeps the old container's state at
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`/var/lib/nixos-containers/hive-forge/`. Nothing moves it to the swarm's
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forge: push anything worth keeping there by hand. Its
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`/var/lib/hyperhive/forge-core-token` came from that old forge and
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fails against the swarm's one.
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</details>
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## Deployment shapes
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Those two options are what makes the difference between deployments, so
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the shapes worth naming are the ones they produce:
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- **All-local.** Everything on one machine:
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`singleHostSwarm = true`, plus `deploy.hive-controller.enable = true` for
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a hive to run agents on. After the first switch, the steps in
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[`setup.md`](../getting-started/setup.md) remain.
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- **Services on the swarm controller host.**
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Set `deploy.allSwarmServices` and `deploy.swarm-controller.enable` there,
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with hives elsewhere. The controller doesn't derive from
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`allSwarmServices`.
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- **Fully spread out.** One container / VM / machine per service,
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somewhere.
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**These are a set, not a ladder with a correct top, and hyperhive
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supports in-between shapes.** You can set each derived toggle on its own (see
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above), which is what makes "all local except X" a configuration rather
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than an unsupported edge case. Nothing in hyperhive prescribes a
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deployment model, so a doc that treats one shape as the real one and
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the others as compromises is wrong about the system rather than
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opinionated.
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The practical consequence is that **co-location is normal**: in the
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first two shapes services share a host by design. Where a specific
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service has something to say about sharing a host --- extra
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requirements, or a cost worth weighing --- that belongs in the doc for
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that service, not here.
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## Services
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### SSO (authelia)
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One authelia per swarm, in a `swarm-authelia` container, at
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`auth.<swarm-domain>`. Operator and agents are both subjects of the same
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provider, differentiated by roles and claims rather than by mechanism —
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there is one IdP and one auth path.
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- **`deploy.authelia`** — run the container here.
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- **`swarm.authelia.url`** — where clients go to authenticate. Present
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on **every** hive and the same value on all of them:
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`https://<swarm.authelia.domain>`, whether or not this host runs the
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container. Set it explicitly when joining a swarm whose IdP is under
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another name.
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Agent subjects come from swarm-controller's agent-creation job, written
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into the users database by `swarm-authelia-bridge`; human ones come from
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`swarmctl user add` → [setup.md § 2](../getting-started/setup.md#2--your-sso-account).
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On first boot this module seeds an empty users database. Authelia generates session and storage keys in the container on
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first boot and never rotates them automatically; replacing one
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invalidates data already written (sessions, the encrypted store), so
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that's an operator action.
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Storage is local sqlite and the notifier writes to a file. Both are
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small-deployment choices, and the scope is the justification: redis
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buys shared session state across replicas and there is one instance;
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SMTP exists to mail humans, and provisioning here is programmatic.
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See [`sso.md`](sso.md) for bootstrapping the first user and the OIDC
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relying-party flow, and [`secrets.md`](secrets.md) for where authelia
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generates and reads each of its keys.
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### Metrics (VictoriaMetrics + Grafana)
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The swarm's telemetry lands in one VictoriaMetrics, and one Grafana
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reads it, in two containers at `metrics.<swarm-domain>` and
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`grafana.<swarm-domain>`. Two containers rather than one so you can
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restart or break Grafana without taking the time-series database with it.
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They derive together: a store with no UI is unreadable and a UI with no
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store is empty. To run one without the other, set it directly:
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```nix
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services.hyperhive.deploy.victoriametrics.enable = true;
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services.hyperhive.deploy.grafana.enable = false;
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```
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⚠️ **This starts a database that grows for as long as the swarm runs.**
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See `retentionPeriod` below before leaving it at its default.
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| Option | When you'd touch it |
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| ---------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `deploy.victoriametrics.retentionPeriod` | Default `5y`. Lower it once you have measured how fast this swarm actually fills a disk — the default is deliberately generous because too-short silently discards history you can't get back. |
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| `swarm.grafana.oidc.role` | Default `Admin` for everyone who logs in. Lower to `Viewer`/`Editor` if the swarm grows operators who shouldn't be able to reconfigure Grafana. |
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| `deploy.grafana.datasourceUrl` | Only if you front VictoriaMetrics with something else. It defaults to the store on this host, which is the only thing it can reach. |
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<!-- vale write-good.Passive = NO -->
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**Logging in.** Grafana is behind swarm SSO, so the accounts are the
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authelia ones — there is no separate Grafana password, and this module
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switches off the local login form whenever SSO is configured. If you enable
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Grafana on a host with no authelia, the form stays on and Grafana's
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default `admin`/`admin` applies; change it before exposing that host.
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<!-- vale write-good.Passive = YES -->
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**Where the data comes from.** The swarm's OTEL collector, below.
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Neither container is reachable except through the gateway: both bind
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loopback, and VictoriaMetrics' write endpoint takes no credential, so
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the collector is the only intended writer.
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### Logs (VictoriaLogs)
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Each hive ships its journals to one VictoriaLogs at `logs.<swarm-domain>`,
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behind the same SSO as everything else: the swarm's own service containers,
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the hive's daemons and infra containers, and the harness units inside every
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agent container. The collector below is what writes to it.
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**Reading them.** Open Grafana, pick **Explore**, and choose the
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`VictoriaLogs` datasource — it's provisioned for you. Grafana's _Logs
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Drilldown_ app is deliberately not installed: it only supports Loki, and
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no setting here changes that, so Explore is the log browser for this
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swarm.
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| Option | When you'd touch it |
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| `deploy.victorialogs.retentionPeriod` | Default `30d`, far shorter than the metrics store's — logs are bulkier per unit of value and are typically read within days of ingestion. Raise it if you need to answer questions about last quarter. |
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| `swarm.victorialogs.domain` | Only to rename it. |
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| `swarm.victorialogs.port` | Only if something else on the services host already claims `9428`. |
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Like the metrics store, it binds loopback and takes no credential of its
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own: the gateway vhost is the only way in, and the collector is the only
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intended writer.
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### Telemetry collector (OTEL)
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The swarm's collector receives from every hive's own collector and is the
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only process that decides where telemetry goes: it always writes the stores
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above, and exports to `otel.endpoint` as well when that's set. It holds
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the upstream credential, which is why no hive and no agent needs one.
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It runs in a `swarm-otel` container. Its `swarm.otel.port` defaults to
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`4319` rather than OTLP's usual `4318`, which the hive tier uses — swarm
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containers share the host's network namespace, so two collectors on one
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port is a coin toss at runtime rather than an error at build time.
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Every hive's own collector reaches this one by its gateway name,
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`swarm.otel.domain` (default `otel.<swarm domain>`) — the same
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by-domain-through-the-gateway shape every other swarm service uses, not a
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loopback URL an operator has to redirect. Nothing needs setting on a hive
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that doesn't run the swarm's services; the name resolves through the
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gateway either way.
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| Option | When you'd touch it |
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| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `swarm.otel.domain` | Only to rename it — the default already resolves correctly for every hive in the swarm. |
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| `swarm.otel.port` | Only if something else on the services host already claims `4319`. |
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**Both store exporters are unconditional**, and `deploy.victoriametrics.enable`
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doesn't gate them: that option says this host _runs_ the store, while the swarm
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has one either way, reached by its swarm name through the gateway. A collector
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with no exporter would receive from every hive and drop it silently, because an
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absent exporter isn't an error.
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Agent-side configuration, and what a hive's own collector does, are in
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[`../scheduler/observability.md`](../scheduler/observability.md).
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