Configuration property reference

Reference for all Data Migrator configuration properties, set in the configuration/application.yml file.

camunda.client

Prefix: camunda.client

info

Read more about Camunda Client configuration options.

Property	Type	Description
.mode	string	Operation mode of the Camunda 8 client. Options: self-managed or cloud. Default: self-managed
.grpc-address	string	The gRPC API endpoint for Camunda 8 Platform. Default: http://localhost:26500
.rest-address	string	The REST API endpoint for Camunda 8 Platform. Default: http://localhost:8088

camunda.migrator

Prefix: camunda.migrator

Property	Type	Description
.page-size	number	Number of records to process in each page. Default: 100
.job-type	string	Job type for actual job activation. Default: migrator.
.validation-job-type	string	Job type for validation purposes. Optional: falls back to job-type if not defined. Set to DISABLED to disable job type execution listener validation entirely.
.auto-ddl	boolean	Automatically create/update migrator database schema. Default: false
.table-prefix	string	Optional prefix for migrator database tables. Default: (empty)
.data-source	string	Choose if the migrator schema is created in the C7 or C8 data source. Should not be changed during migration, as it can lead to duplicate data migration. Default: C7
.tenantIds	string	Comma-separated list of tenant ids for which process instances should be migrated during runtime migration. For more information: Tenant in Runtime Default: (empty) (migrate only process instances without assigned tenant id)
.database-vendor	string	Database vendor for migrator schema. Options: h2, postgresql, oracle. Default: Automatically detected.
.interceptors	array	List of variable interceptors (built-in and custom) to configure during migration.
.save-skip-reason	boolean	Whether to persist skip reasons for entities that could not be migrated. Required when using the Cockpit plugin. Default: false.

camunda.migrator.interceptors.[n]

Prefix: camunda.migrator.interceptors.[n]

Property	Type	Description
class-name	string	Required. Fully qualified class name of the interceptor (built-in or custom).
enabled	boolean	Whether the interceptor is enabled. Default: true for all interceptors.
properties	map	Custom properties (key:value pairs) to configure the interceptor. Properties call setter methods on the interceptor class and pass the value.

Built-in interceptors

The following built-in interceptors are available and can be disabled:

Validators (reject unsupported types):

• io.camunda.migrator.impl.interceptor.ByteArrayVariableValidator
• io.camunda.migrator.impl.interceptor.FileVariableValidator
• io.camunda.migrator.impl.interceptor.ObjectJavaVariableValidator

Transformers (convert supported types):

• io.camunda.migrator.impl.interceptor.PrimitiveVariableTransformer
• io.camunda.migrator.impl.interceptor.NullVariableTransformer
• io.camunda.migrator.impl.interceptor.DateVariableTransformer
• io.camunda.migrator.impl.interceptor.ObjectJsonVariableTransformer
• io.camunda.migrator.impl.interceptor.ObjectXmlVariableTransformer
• io.camunda.migrator.impl.interceptor.SpinJsonVariableTransformer
• io.camunda.migrator.impl.interceptor.SpinXmlVariableTransformer

camunda.migrator.c7.data-source

Prefix: camunda.migrator.c7.data-source

Property	Type	Description
.table-prefix	string	Optional prefix for Camunda 7 database tables. Default: (empty)
.auto-ddl	boolean	Automatically create/update Camunda 7 database schema. Default: false
.database-vendor	string	The database vendor is automatically detected and can currently not be overridden.
.*		You can apply all HikariConfig properties.
.jdbc-url	string	JDBC connection URL for the source Camunda 7 database. Default: jdbc:h2:mem:migrator
.username	string	Username for Camunda 7 database connection. Default: sa
.password	string	Password for Camunda 7 database connection. Default: sa
.driver-class-name	string	JDBC driver class for Camunda 7 database. Default: org.h2.Driver

camunda.migrator.c8

Prefix: camunda.migrator.c8

Property	Type	Description
.deployment-dir	string	Define directory which resources like BPMN processes are automatically deployed to C8. In case multi-tenancy is enabled, please perform a manual deployment.

camunda.migrator.c8.data-source

Prefix: camunda.migrator.c8.data-source

If the c8.data-source configuration is absent, the RDBMS history data migrator is disabled.

info

Heads-up: History Data Migrator is experimental.

Property	Type	Description
.table-prefix	string	Optional prefix for Camunda 8 RDBMS database tables. Default: (empty)
.auto-ddl	boolean	Automatically create/update Camunda 8 RDBMS database schema. Default: false
.database-vendor	string	Database vendor for Camunda 8 schema. Options: h2, postgresql, oracle. Default: Automatically detected.
.*		You can apply all HikariConfig properties. For example:
.jdbc-url	string	JDBC connection URL for the target Camunda 8 RDBMS database. Default: jdbc:h2:mem:migrator
.username	string	Username for Camunda 8 database connection. Default: sa
.password	string	Password for Camunda 8 database connection. Default: sa
.driver-class-name	string	JDBC driver class for Camunda 8 database. Default: org.h2.Driver

logging

Prefix: logging

Property	Type	Description
.level.root	string	Root logger level. Default: INFO
.level.io.camunda.migrator	string	Migrator logging level. Default: INFO
.file.name	string	Log file location. Set to: logs/camunda-7-to-8-data-migrator.log. If not specified, logs are output to the console.