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title: Administration Overview (self-hosted)
description: Comprehensive overview of administration capabilities for self-hosted Langfuse deployments.
label: "Version: v4"
sidebarTitle: Overview
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# Administration Overview (self-hosted)

Self-hosted Langfuse provides comprehensive administration capabilities to manage your deployment, users, organizations, and data.

Please familiarize yourself with the [RBAC](/docs/administration/rbac) documentation before using the following features.

Some of these features are only available in the [Enterprise Edition](/pricing-self-host) and are marked with `(EE)`.

## User & Access Management

- **[Automated Access Provisioning](/self-hosting/administration/automated-access-provisioning)**: Auto-assign new users to a default organization/project
- **[Organization Creators](/self-hosting/administration/organization-creators)** (EE): Restrict who can create organizations
- **[Admin API (SCIM)](/docs/administration/scim-and-org-api)**: Enterprise user provisioning and bulk operations

## Organization & Project Management

- **[Headless Initialization](/self-hosting/administration/headless-initialization)**: Automate resource creation (single org, project, user, apikey) via environment variables, e.g., for CI/CD.
- **[Instance Management API](/self-hosting/administration/instance-management-api)** (EE): REST API for programmatic organization management
- **[Admin API](/docs/administration/scim-and-org-api)**: Manage projects via the organization-scoped admin API

## Interface & Branding

- **[UI Customization](/self-hosting/administration/ui-customization)** (EE): Co-branding, custom links, module visibility, LLM API defaults

## Data & Security

- **[Audit Logs](/docs/administration/audit-logs)** (EE): Comprehensive activity tracking for compliance
- **[Data Deletion](/docs/administration/data-deletion)**: Flexible data removal (traces, projects, organizations, users)
- **[Data Retention](/docs/administration/data-retention)**: Automated lifecycle management with configurable policies

## APIs & Monitoring

- **[LLM Connections](/docs/administration/llm-connection)**: Manage connections to OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, and more. Either via the UI or the API.

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If you experience any issues when self-hosting Langfuse, please:

1. Check out [Troubleshooting & FAQ](/self-hosting/troubleshooting-and-faq) page.
2. Use [Ask AI](/ask-ai) to get instant answers to your questions.
3. Ask the maintainers on [GitHub Discussions](/gh-support).
4. Create a bug report or feature request on [GitHub](/issues).

  Enterprise-grade support is available when self-hosting Langfuse. Learn more on
  our [pricing page](/pricing-self-host).

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## Agent Instructions

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### Querying these docs

If the answer is not on this page, query the documentation instead of guessing:

- **Semantic search** across all Langfuse docs, returning an answer with the relevant pages and excerpts. Ask a specific, self-contained question:

  ```bash
  curl -sG "https://langfuse.com/api/search-docs" --data-urlencode "query=How do I trace a LangGraph agent?"
  ```

- **Index of every page**: <https://langfuse.com/llms.txt>, with per-section indexes [llms-docs.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-docs.txt), [llms-integrations.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-integrations.txt), and [llms-self-hosting.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-self-hosting.txt).

### Before writing Langfuse code

- **Install the [Langfuse Agent Skill](https://langfuse.com/docs/api-and-data-platform/features/agent-skill).** It encodes Langfuse's own best practices for instrumentation, prompt management, and evaluation, and materially improves results.
- **Read [What does a good trace look like?](https://langfuse.com/docs/observability/best-practices.md)** before instrumenting an application.
- **Verify endpoints, parameters, and response fields** against the [API reference](https://api.reference.langfuse.com) instead of inferring them from code examples.
- **Use the [Langfuse CLI](https://langfuse.com/docs/api-and-data-platform/features/cli)** (`npx langfuse-cli api <resource> <action>`) to read or write traces, prompts, datasets, and scores from the terminal.

Found an error in these docs? Please open an issue at <https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse-docs/issues>.