Nextflow Tower is an open source monitoring and managing platform for Nextflow workflows. Learn more at tower.nf.

Build the environment

make build

Run locally

make run

See: docker-compose.yml file for details

Tower backend settings can be provided either:

A minimal config requires the settings for the SMTP server, using the following variables:

TOWER_SMTP_HOST: The SMTP server host name e.g. email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.
TOWER_SMTP_PORT: The SMTP server port number e.g. 587.
TOWER_SMTP_USER: The SMTP user name.
TOWER_SMTP_PASSWORD: The SMTP user password.

Navigate to GUI in http://localhost:8000 and follow the instructions.

Define the following env variables:

(see tower-backend/src/main/resources/application.yml for further config details)

Launch the backend with the command:

./gradlew tower-backend:run --continuous

cd tower-web
npm install
npm run livedev

Tower is designed to be database agnostic and can use most popular SQL database servers, such as MySql, Postgres, Oracle and many other.

By default it uses H2, an embedded database meant to be used for evaluation purpose only.

TOWER_APP_NAME: Application name.
TOWER_SERVER_URL: Server URL e.g. https://tower.nf.
TOWER_CONTACT_EMAIL: Sysadmin email contact e.g. [email protected].
TOWER_DB_CREATE: DB creation policy e.g. none.
TOWER_DB_URL: Database JDBC connection URL e.g. jdbc:mysql://localhost:3307/tower.
TOWER_DB_DRIVER: Database JDBC driver class name e.g. com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver.
TOWER_DB_DIALECT: Database SQL Hibernate dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL55Dialect.
TOWER_DB_USER: Database user name.
TOWER_DB_PASSWORD: Database user password.
TOWER_SMTP_HOST: SMTP server host name.
TOWER_SMTP_PORT: SMTP server port e.g. 587.
TOWER_SMTP_AUTH: SMTP server authentication eg true
TOWER_SMTP_USER: SMTP server user name.
TOWER_SMTP_PASSWORD: SMTP server user password.