id: configure-helm.md label: Helm related_key: configure group: configure-docker.md order: 1

summary: Learn how to configure your Milvus.

Configure Milvus

This topic describes how to configure your Milvus.

In current release, all parameters take effect only after Milvus restarts.

You can configure Milvus with a configuration file values.yaml.

Download values.yaml directly or with the following command.

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milvus-io/milvus-helm/master/charts/milvus/values.yaml

Configure your Milvus instance to suit your application scenarios by adjusting corresponding parameters in values.yaml.

Check the following links for more information about each parameter.

Sorted by:

Dependencies	Components
etcd MinIO or S3 Pulsar RocksMQ	Root coord Proxy Query coord Query node Index coord Index node Data coord Data node Local storage Log Message channel Common Knowhere

Purpose	Parameters
Performance tuning	`queryNode.gracefulTime` `rootCoord.minSegmentSizeToEnableIndex` `dataCoord.segment.maxSize` `dataCoord.segment.sealProportion` `dataNode.flush.insertBufSize` `queryCoord.autoHandoff` `queryCoord.autoBalance` `localStorage.enabled`
Data and meta	`common.retentionDuration` `rocksmq.retentionTimeInMinutes` `dataCoord.enableCompaction` `dataCoord.enableGarbageCollection` `dataCoord.gc.dropTolerance`
Administration	`log.level` `log.file.rootPath` `log.file.maxAge` `minio.accessKeyID` `minio.secretAccessKey`

For other parameters specifically to Kubernetes installation, See Milvus Helm Chart Configuration.

Having finished modifying the configuration file, you can then start Milvus with the file.

$ helm upgrade my-release milvus/milvus -f values.yaml

Alternatively, you can upgrade Milvus configurations directly with the Helm command.

Before upgrade, you can check the configurable parameters with Helm charts.

$ helm show values milvus/milvus

Configure and start Milvus by adding --values or --set in the command for upgrade.

# For instance, upgrade the Milvus cluster with compaction disabled
$ helm upgrade my-release milvus/milvus --set dataCoord.enableCompaction=false

If you want to learn how to monitor the Milvus services and create alerts:
- Learn Monitor Milvus 2.0 with Prometheus Operator on Kubernetes
- Learn Visualize Milvus Metrics in Grafana.
If you are looking for instructions on how to allocate resources:
- Allocate Resources on Kubernetes