Countly Documentation

Countly Resources

Here you'll find comprehensive guides to help you start working with Countly as quickly as possible.

System requirements

Read here before you install Countly on your server

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Operating system

  • Ubuntu v16.04 or higher (excluding 18.04)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux v6.9 or higher
  • CentOS Linux v6.9 or higher

Countly doesn't work on Microsoft Windows or MacOS platforms.

64 bit support only

32-bit MongoDB processes are limited to about 2 GB of data. The reason for this is that the MongoDB storage engine uses memory-mapped files for performance. For this reason, MongoDB decided not to support 32 bit, so we also dropped 32-bit support for new installations, starting from version 16.02.

CPU

Countly requires at least 2 CPUs (the more the better) for a good user experience.

RAM

  • At least 2 GB of RAM for testing purposes
  • 4 GB of RAM for moderate traffic
  • 16-64 GB RAM or more for high traffic servers

Note that you may need different installation methods like sharding, to distribute traffic to several servers, for multi-billion API requests per month. Contact Countly team to discuss how to deploy Countly on a sharded environment.

Countly will not work on servers with 1GB of RAM.

Disk

Requirements for disk depends on the number of events and segmentations you send to your server.

  • At least 20GB of disk space for testing purposes or low-traffic servers
  • At least 100 GB of disk space for moderate traffic
  • 1 TB or more for high traffic servers (SSD recommended)

For a more detailed breakdown of system requirements, please contact us directly to get hardware recommendations for your specific usage scenario.