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Installing Apex Camunda Explorer

How to install Apex Camunda Explorer on your local machine.

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Written by David Knapp
Updated 2 years ago
Less than a minute read

You can install Apex Camunda Explorer on your local machine using Docker Desktop. If you don't have Docker Desktop installed, the instructions are here.

  1. Create a directory named apex-camunda-explorer
  2. Create a file inside that directory named docker-compose.yml containing the text show below
  3. Run the docker-compose up command to start the app and supporting components
  4. Once they are started, you can access the app at http://localhost:3000

Here is the docker-compose.yml file. The setup includes explorer, the underlying PostgreSQL database, the Zeebe engine and Elasticsearch. Be sure to replace <your email> and <a password for postgres> before running it.

version: '3'
services:
  apex-camunda-explorer:
    image: 'apexbpm/apex-camunda-explorer:latest'
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    environment:
      databaseUrl: 'postgres://postgres:<a password for postgres>@postgres:5432/apex-camunda-explorer'
      databaseSSL: 'false'
      maintenanceDatabase: 'postgres'
      adminEmails: '<your email>'
      elasticsearchConfiguration: '{ "node": "http://elasticsearch:9200" }'
      ZEEBE_ADDRESS: 'http://zeebe:26500'
    depends_on:
      - postgres
      - zeebe
      - elasticsearch
  postgres:
    image: postgres
    ports:
      - 5432:5432
    volumes:
      - './postgresql:/var/lib/postgresql/data'
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: postgres
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: <a password for postgres>
      POSTGRES_DB: postgres
  zeebe:
    image: camunda/zeebe:${CAMUNDA_CLOUD_VERSION:-8.0.2}
    container_name: zeebe
    environment:
      - ZEEBE_BROKER_EXPORTERS_ELASTICSEARCH_CLASSNAME=io.camunda.zeebe.exporter.ElasticsearchExporter
      - ZEEBE_BROKER_EXPORTERS_ELASTICSEARCH_ARGS_URL=http://elasticsearch:9200
      - ZEEBE_BROKER_EXPORTERS_ELASTICSEARCH_ARGS_BULK_SIZE=1
    ports:
      - 26500:26500
    volumes:
      - './zeebe:/usr/local/zeebe/data'
    depends_on:
      - elasticsearch
  elasticsearch:
    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${ELASTIC_VERSION:-7.16.1}
    container_name: elasticsearch
    environment:
      - cluster.name=camunda-cloud
      - discovery.type=single-node
      - xpack.security.enabled=false
      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
      - http.port=9200
      - http.cors.enabled=true
      - http.cors.allow-origin=http://localhost:1358,http://127.0.0.1:1358
      - http.cors.allow-headers=X-Requested-With,X-Auth-Token,Content-Type,Content-Length,Authorization
      - http.cors.allow-credentials=true
    ulimits:
      memlock:
        soft: -1
        hard: -1
    volumes:
      - './elastic:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data'
    ports:
      - 9200:9200
 
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