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LogScale Self-Hosted Deployment
This is an archived version of the documentation downloaded from LogScale Documentation Archives. Up to date documentation, and documentation for later versions, is available on LogScale Documentation

## System Requirements

When installing LogScale there are various system requirements for the deployment. These requirements include:

- Operating System — Operating systems for physical or virtual servers.

- Browsers — Web browsers used to interact with and use the LogScale dashboard.

- Java — A Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is required for running LogScale server. A suitable JVM is included with LogScale distributions.

- Kafka — Kafka for running LogScale server.

### Operating System

LogScale is designed to operate on a Linux-based Operating System, with assumptions made about the environment and capabilities consistent with Linux infrastructure.

The following Linux distributions are known to work:

- Debian-based distributions, including Ubuntu.

- RedHat-based distributions.

### Browsers

LogScale works within the following browsers:

- Google Chrome — the two most recent versions.

The following browsers should work but are not officially supported:

- Apple Safari — at least the three most recent versions.

- Mozilla Firefox — at least the three most recent versions.

Operation with other browsers is unknown and is not officially supported.

### Java

LogScale requires Java. A suitable JVM is included with LogScale distributions.

CrowdStrike will announce the cessation of support for any LTS JDK version 6 months ahead of time on Deprecated Features.

### Kafka

LogScale recommends that the latest version of Kafka be used with your LogScale deployment. The latest version of Kafka is available at Kafka Downloads. You can alternatively use a public managed cloud Kafka service such as Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK).

### Note

Using serverless MSK is not currently supported.

The Kafka cluster should be upgraded annually and not be more than eighteen (18) months old to ensure the best compatibility.

At a minimum, LogScale requires Kafka version 2.4.1 or higher and is tested against the latest Kafka version. For more information, see Installing Native Kafka.

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