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Manually editing the database is +generally not recommended so once you have an admin account: use the admin APIs +to make further changes.</p> +<pre><code class="language-sql">UPDATE users SET admin = 1 WHERE name = '@foo:bar.com'; +</code></pre> +<h2 id="what-servers-are-my-server-talking-to"><a class="header" href="#what-servers-are-my-server-talking-to">What servers are my server talking to?</a></h2> +<p>Run this sql query on your db:</p> +<pre><code class="language-sql">SELECT * FROM destinations; +</code></pre> +<h2 id="what-servers-are-currently-participating-in-this-room"><a class="header" href="#what-servers-are-currently-participating-in-this-room">What servers are currently participating in this room?</a></h2> +<p>Run this sql query on your db:</p> +<pre><code class="language-sql">SELECT DISTINCT split_part(state_key, ':', 2) +FROM current_state_events +WHERE room_id = '!cURbafjkfsMDVwdRDQ:matrix.org' AND membership = 'join'; +</code></pre> +<h2 id="what-users-are-registered-on-my-server"><a class="header" href="#what-users-are-registered-on-my-server">What users are registered on my server?</a></h2> +<pre><code class="language-sql">SELECT NAME from users; +</code></pre> +<h2 id="how-can-i-export-user-data"><a class="header" href="#how-can-i-export-user-data">How can I export user data?</a></h2> +<p>Synapse includes a Python command to export data for a specific user. It takes the homeserver +configuration file and the full Matrix ID of the user to export:</p> +<pre><code class="language-console">python -m synapse.app.admin_cmd -c <config_file> export-data <user_id> --output-directory <directory_path> +</code></pre> +<p>If you uses <a href="../../development/dependencies.html#managing-dependencies-with-poetry">Poetry</a> +to run Synapse:</p> +<pre><code class="language-console">poetry run python -m synapse.app.admin_cmd -c <config_file> export-data <user_id> --output-directory <directory_path> +</code></pre> +<p>The directory to store the export data in can be customised with the +<code>--output-directory</code> parameter; ensure that the provided directory is +empty. If this parameter is not provided, Synapse defaults to creating +a temporary directory (which starts with "synapse-exfiltrate") in <code>/tmp</code>, +<code>/var/tmp</code>, or <code>/usr/tmp</code>, in that order.</p> +<p>The exported data has the following layout:</p> +<pre><code>output-directory +├───rooms +│ └───<room_id> +│ ├───events +│ ├───state +│ ├───invite_state +│ └───knock_state +├───user_data +│ ├───account_data +│ │ ├───global +│ │ └───<room_id> +│ ├───connections +│ ├───devices +│ └───profile +└───media_ids + └───<media_id> +</code></pre> +<p>The <code>media_ids</code> folder contains only the metadata of the media uploaded by the user. +It does not contain the media itself. +Furthermore, only the <code>media_ids</code> that Synapse manages itself are exported. +If another media repository (e.g. <a href="https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo">matrix-media-repo</a>) +is used, the data must be exported separately.</p> +<p>With the <code>media_ids</code> the media files can be downloaded. +Media that have been sent in encrypted rooms are only retrieved in encrypted form. +The following script can help with download the media files:</p> +<pre><code class="language-bash">#!/usr/bin/env bash + +# Parameters +# +# source_directory: Directory which contains the export with the media_ids. +# target_directory: Directory into which all files are to be downloaded. +# repository_url: Address of the media repository resp. media worker. +# serverName: Name of the server (`server_name` from homeserver.yaml). +# +# Example: +# ./download_media.sh /tmp/export_data/media_ids/ /tmp/export_data/media_files/ http://localhost:8008 matrix.example.com + +source_directory=$1 +target_directory=$2 +repository_url=$3 +serverName=$4 + +mkdir -p $target_directory + +for file in $source_directory/*; do + filename=$(basename ${file}) + url=$repository_url/_matrix/media/v3/download/$serverName/$filename + echo "Downloading $filename - $url" + if ! wget -o /dev/null -P $target_directory $url; then + echo "Could not download $filename" + fi +done +</code></pre> +<h2 id="how-do-i-upgrade-from-a-very-old-version-of-synapse-to-the-latest"><a class="header" href="#how-do-i-upgrade-from-a-very-old-version-of-synapse-to-the-latest">How do I upgrade from a very old version of Synapse to the latest?</a></h2> +<p>See <a href="../../upgrade.html#upgrading-from-a-very-old-version">this</a> section in the +upgrade docs.</p> +<h2 id="manually-resetting-passwords"><a class="header" href="#manually-resetting-passwords">Manually resetting passwords</a></h2> +<p>Users can reset their password through their client. Alternatively, a server admin +can reset a user's password using the <a href="../../admin_api/user_admin_api.html#reset-password">admin API</a>.</p> +<h2 id="i-have-a-problem-with-my-server-can-i-just-delete-my-database-and-start-again"><a class="header" href="#i-have-a-problem-with-my-server-can-i-just-delete-my-database-and-start-again">I have a problem with my server. Can I just delete my database and start again?</a></h2> +<p>Deleting your database is unlikely to make anything better.</p> +<p>It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that you can start again from a clean +slate by dropping your database, but things don't work like that in a federated +network: lots of other servers have information about your server.</p> +<p>For example: other servers might think that you are in a room, your server will +think that you are not, and you'll probably be unable to interact with that room +in a sensible way ever again.</p> +<p>In general, there are better solutions to any problem than dropping the database. +Come and seek help in https://matrix.to/#/#synapse:matrix.org.</p> +<p>There are two exceptions when it might be sensible to delete your database and start again:</p> +<ul> +<li>You have <em>never</em> joined any rooms which are federated with other servers. For +instance, a local deployment which the outside world can't talk to.</li> +<li>You are changing the <code>server_name</code> in the homeserver configuration. In effect +this makes your server a completely new one from the point of view of the network, +so in this case it makes sense to start with a clean database. +(In both cases you probably also want to clear out the media_store.)</li> +</ul> +<h2 id="ive-stuffed-up-access-to-my-room-how-can-i-delete-it-to-free-up-the-alias"><a class="header" href="#ive-stuffed-up-access-to-my-room-how-can-i-delete-it-to-free-up-the-alias">I've stuffed up access to my room, how can I delete it to free up the alias?</a></h2> +<p>Using the following curl command:</p> +<pre><code class="language-console">curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer <access-token>' -X DELETE https://matrix.org/_matrix/client/r0/directory/room/<room-alias> +</code></pre> +<p><code><access-token></code> - can be obtained in riot by looking in the riot settings, down the bottom is: +Access Token:<click to reveal></p> +<p><code><room-alias></code> - the room alias, eg. #my_room:matrix.org this possibly needs to be URL encoded also, for example %23my_room%3Amatrix.org</p> +<h2 id="how-can-i-find-the-lines-corresponding-to-a-given-http-request-in-my-homeserver-log"><a class="header" href="#how-can-i-find-the-lines-corresponding-to-a-given-http-request-in-my-homeserver-log">How can I find the lines corresponding to a given HTTP request in my homeserver log?</a></h2> +<p>Synapse tags each log line according to the HTTP request it is processing. When +it finishes processing each request, it logs a line containing the words +<code>Processed request: </code>. For example:</p> +<pre><code>2019-02-14 22:35:08,196 - synapse.access.http.8008 - 302 - INFO - GET-37 - ::1 - 8008 - {@richvdh:localhost} Processed request: 0.173sec/0.001sec (0.002sec, 0.000sec) (0.027sec/0.026sec/2) 687B 200 "GET /_matrix/client/r0/sync HTTP/1.1" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36" [0 dbevts]" +</code></pre> +<p>Here we can see that the request has been tagged with <code>GET-37</code>. (The tag depends +on the method of the HTTP request, so might start with <code>GET-</code>, <code>PUT-</code>, <code>POST-</code>, +<code>OPTIONS-</code> or <code>DELETE-</code>.) So to find all lines corresponding to this request, we can do:</p> +<pre><code class="language-console">grep 'GET-37' homeserver.log +</code></pre> +<p>If you want to paste that output into a github issue or matrix room, please +remember to surround it with triple-backticks (```) to make it legible +(see <a href="https://help.github.com/en/articles/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax#quoting-code">quoting code</a>).</p> +<h2 id="what-do-all-those-fields-in-the-processed-line-mean"><a class="header" href="#what-do-all-those-fields-in-the-processed-line-mean">What do all those fields in the 'Processed' line mean?</a></h2> +<p>See <a href="request_log.html">Request log format</a>.</p> +<h2 id="what-are-the-biggest-rooms-on-my-server"><a class="header" href="#what-are-the-biggest-rooms-on-my-server">What are the biggest rooms on my server?</a></h2> +<pre><code class="language-sql">SELECT s.canonical_alias, g.room_id, count(*) AS num_rows +FROM + state_groups_state AS g, + room_stats_state AS s +WHERE g.room_id = s.room_id +GROUP BY s.canonical_alias, g.room_id +ORDER BY num_rows desc +LIMIT 10; +</code></pre> +<p>You can also use the <a href="../../admin_api/rooms.html#list-room-api">List Room API</a> +and <code>order_by</code> <code>state_events</code>.</p> +<h2 id="people-cant-accept-room-invitations-from-me"><a class="header" href="#people-cant-accept-room-invitations-from-me">People can't accept room invitations from me</a></h2> +<p>The typical failure mode here is that you send an invitation to someone +to join a room or direct chat, but when they go to accept it, they get an +error (typically along the lines of "Invalid signature"). They might see +something like the following in their logs:</p> +<pre><code>2019-09-11 19:32:04,271 - synapse.federation.transport.server - 288 - WARNING - GET-11752 - authenticate_request failed: 401: Invalid signature for server <server> with key ed25519:a_EqML: Unable to verify signature for <server> +</code></pre> +<p>This is normally caused by a misconfiguration in your reverse-proxy. See <a href="../../reverse_proxy.html">the reverse proxy docs</a> and double-check that your settings are correct.</p> +<h2 id="help-synapse-is-slow-and-eats-all-my-ramcpu"><a class="header" href="#help-synapse-is-slow-and-eats-all-my-ramcpu">Help!! Synapse is slow and eats all my RAM/CPU!</a></h2> +<p>First, ensure you are running the latest version of Synapse, using Python 3 +with a <a href="../../postgres.html">PostgreSQL database</a>.</p> +<p>Synapse's architecture is quite RAM hungry currently - we deliberately +cache a lot of recent room data and metadata in RAM in order to speed up +common requests. We'll improve this in the future, but for now the easiest +way to either reduce the RAM usage (at the risk of slowing things down) +is to set the almost-undocumented <code>SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR</code> environment +variable. The default is 0.5, which can be decreased to reduce RAM usage +in memory constrained environments, or increased if performance starts to +degrade.</p> +<p>However, degraded performance due to a low cache factor, common on +machines with slow disks, often leads to explosions in memory use due to +backlogged requests. In this case, reducing the cache factor will make +things worse. Instead, try increasing it drastically. 2.0 is a good +starting value.</p> +<p>Using <a href="https://jemalloc.net">libjemalloc</a> can also yield a significant +improvement in overall memory use, and especially in terms of giving back +RAM to the OS. To use it, the library must simply be put in the +LD_PRELOAD environment variable when launching Synapse. On Debian, this +can be done by installing the <code>libjemalloc2</code> package and adding this +line to <code>/etc/default/matrix-synapse</code>:</p> +<pre><code>LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjemalloc.so.2 +</code></pre> +<p>This made a significant difference on Python 2.7 - it's unclear how +much of an improvement it provides on Python 3.x.</p> +<p>If you're encountering high CPU use by the Synapse process itself, you +may be affected by a bug with presence tracking that leads to a +massive excess of outgoing federation requests (see <a href="https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3971">discussion</a>). If metrics +indicate that your server is also issuing far more outgoing federation +requests than can be accounted for by your users' activity, this is a +likely cause. The misbehavior can be worked around by disabling presence +in the Synapse config file: <a href="../configuration/config_documentation.html#presence">see here</a>.</p> +<h2 id="running-out-of-file-handles"><a class="header" href="#running-out-of-file-handles">Running out of File Handles</a></h2> +<p>If Synapse runs out of file handles, it typically fails badly - live-locking +at 100% CPU, and/or failing to accept new TCP connections (blocking the +connecting client). Matrix currently can legitimately use a lot of file handles, +thanks to busy rooms like <code>#matrix:matrix.org</code> containing hundreds of participating +servers. The first time a server talks in a room it will try to connect +simultaneously to all participating servers, which could exhaust the available +file descriptors between DNS queries & HTTPS sockets, especially if DNS is slow +to respond. (We need to improve the routing algorithm used to be better than +full mesh, but as of March 2019 this hasn't happened yet).</p> +<p>If you hit this failure mode, we recommend increasing the maximum number of +open file handles to be at least 4096 (assuming a default of 1024 or 256). +This is typically done by editing <code>/etc/security/limits.conf</code></p> +<p>Separately, Synapse may leak file handles if inbound HTTP requests get stuck +during processing - e.g. blocked behind a lock or talking to a remote server etc. +This is best diagnosed by matching up the 'Received request' and 'Processed request' +log lines and looking for any 'Processed request' lines which take more than +a few seconds to execute. 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