This section gives an overview over important resource limits that help ensure the health and security of the Mender Server.
The maximum size of pre-built Mender Artifacts that can be uploaded to the Mender Server.
Default: 10 GiB
Override with the Mender Server environment variable: DEPLOYMENTS_STORAGE_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE
The maximum size of single-file type Artifacts generated by the Mender Server with the Generate Artifact endpoint.
Default: 256 MiB
Override with the Mender Server environment variable: DEPLOYMENTS_STORAGE_MAX_GENERATE_DATA_SIZE
The maximum size of a single Device inventory on the Mender Server. This limit is based on the maximum size of a BSON document in MongoDB, but there are other limits that can limit this further.
Default: 10 MiB
Overriding this limit is not possible
The maximum length of Release names when creating Releases on the Mender Server.
Default: 256 characters
Overriding this limit is not possible
The maximum length of keys and values in Mender Configure Device attributes.
Default: 4096 characters
Overriding this limit is not possible
The maximum number of active and pending deployments per tenant.
Default: No limit
Override with the Mender Server environment variable: DEPLOYMENTS_LIMIT_MAX_ACTIVE_DEPLOYMENTS
Warning: This limit is set to 800 active deployments per tenant on hosted Mender.
The maximum number of tags that can be defined per Device inventory.
Default: 20
Override with the Mender Server environment variable: INVENTORY_LIMIT_TAGS
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