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Sourcegraph docs

Universal Code Search: Move fast, even in big codebases.

Find and fix things across all of your code faster with Sourcegraph. Onboard to a new codebase, make large-scale refactors, increase efficiency, address security risks, root-cause incidents, and more.

This website is home to Sourcegraph's feature, installation, administration, and development documentation.

★ Try Sourcegraph now Core docs Cloud docs About Sourcegraph

Getting started

★ Sourcegraph Cloud
Search 1 million+ open source repositories or your own repositories. No installation required. ★ Self-hosted instance
Deploy and manage your own Sourcegraph instance. Recommended for production deployments.

Managed instance
Get a Sourcegraph instance provisioned and managed by the Sourcegraph team. Local instance
Quickly set up and try out Sourcegraph locally using Docker.

NOTE: Looking for how to use Sourcegraph? Refer to our Using Sourcegraph guide!

NOTE: Unsure where to start, or need help? Reach out to us!

Quick install

You can quickly try out Sourcegraph locally using Docker, which takes only a few minutes and lets you try out all of its features:

docker run -d --publish 7080:7080 --publish 127.0.0.1:3370:3370 --rm --volume ~/.sourcegraph/config:/etc/sourcegraph --volume ~/.sourcegraph/data:/var/opt/sourcegraph sourcegraph/server:3.37.0

For next steps, visit the Docker installation documentation.

NOTE: Due to the Windows enviroment, using Sourcegraph with Windows currently isn't fully supported. Testing instructions for running Sourcegraph locally on a Windows machine can be found here

WARNING: We do not recommend using this method for a production instance - see Getting started for more options.

Core documentation

Features and tutorials

• Tour: A walkthrough of Sourcegraph's features, with real-world example use cases.
• Using Sourcegraph
• How to run a Sourcegraph trial at your company
• Integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.
• Extensions
• Chrome and Firefox browser extensions
• Site Administrator Quickstart

Reference

• Query syntax reference
• API Documentation
• Sourcegraph changelog

Cloud documentation

• Sourcegraph Cloud
• Differences between Sourcegraph Cloud and self-hosted
• Indexing open source code in Sourcegraph Cloud

Self-hosted documentation

• Install or update Sourcegraph
• Administration

Other links

• Contributing to Sourcegraph
• Sourcegraph handbook
• Sourcegraph blog
• @sourcegraph on Twitter
• Product Roadmap

Get help

• File an issue
• Tweet (@sourcegraph)
• Talk to an engineer
• Talk to a product specialist