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Laminar can run on our managed cloud or be self-hosted.

Managed (Laminar Cloud)

  1. Sign up at laminar.sh.
  2. Create a project.
  3. Copy your project API key from project settings.
  4. Set LMNR_PROJECT_API_KEY in your environment.
Next: start instrumenting your app by following the tracing entry point: Tracing.

Self-hosted (Docker Compose)

Run the full Laminar stack locally with Docker Compose:
The dashboard is available at http://localhost:5667/. Create a project through the onboarding flow, then grab your API key from project settings.

Point the SDK to your local instance

For production self-hosting options, see the GitHub repository.

Access control

By default, a self-hosted instance accepts sign-in from anyone who can reach it. To require users to authenticate through an OAuth provider, set that provider’s credentials. GitHub and Google are configured directly:
Enterprise SSO providers (Azure Entra ID, Okta, Keycloak) are also supported through their own AUTH_* variables.
Configuring a provider controls how users sign in, not who can sign in: anyone with an account at that provider can still create an account on your instance. There is no built-in email allow-list.