options.md

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ArangoDB Server Options	Options	5	The startup options of the `arangod` executable	maxHeadlineLevel 2

Usage: arangod [<options>]

To list the commonly used startup options with a description of each option, run the server executable in a command-line with the --help (or -h) option:

arangod --help

To list all available startup options and their descriptions, use:

arangod --help-all

You can specify the database directory for the server as a positional (unnamed) parameter:

arangod /path/to/datadir

You can also be explicit by using a named parameter:

arangod --database.directory /path/to/datadir

All other startup options need to be passed as named parameters, using two hyphens (--), followed by the option name, an equals sign (=) or a space, and the option value. The value needs to be wrapped in double quote marks (") if the value contains whitespace characters. Extra whitespace around = is allowed:

arangod --database.directory = "/path with spaces/to/datadir"

See Configuration if you want to translate startup options set to configuration files and to learn more about startup options in general.

See Fetch Current Configuration Options if you want to query the arangod server for the current settings at runtime.

{{% program-options name="arangod" %}}