Self-hosted administration
This section of the guide is for system admins of self-hosted Mattermost servers. If you’re the admin for a Mattermost Cloud workspace, please refer to the Cloud workspace management section on this page.
Mattermost self-hosted billing - Manage your Mattermost subscription.
Include configuration in the Mattermost database - Store Mattermost configuration information in your database rather than as a JSON file. We recommend this for High Availability environments.
Bulk loading data - Import bulk data into Mattermost for teams, channels, users, post content, and more.
SMTP email setup - Connect to an email server to send emails for password resets and system notifications.
Email templates - Alter the transactional emails Mattermost sends to your users.
Calls deployment - Learn about the different calls deployment types.
Configure CloudFront to host Mattermost static assets - Improve caching performance to reduce content load times.
Use an outbound proxy - Monitor outbound traffic and control the websites that can appear in embedded content.
Migration guide - Learn how to migrate from other chat services to Mattermost.
Migration guidelines from MySQL to PostgreSQL - Learn how to migrate the Mattermost database from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean search - Set up search capabilities for teams communicating via Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
Whitelabel Mattermost - Whitelabel the Mattermost server and apps.
Audit logging - Learn how Mattermost records activities and events performed within a Mattermost workspace.
JSON audit log schema - Learn how to configure Mattermost audit logging using a JSON object.
SSL client certificate setup - Configure SSL client certificates for Mattermost Desktop and Web Apps.
Certificate-Based Authentication - Set up certificate-based authentication for Mattermost.
Manage telemetry - Self-hosted system admins can opt out of sharing telemetry data with Mattermost.