Running Blockscout - Blockscout

Blockscout also provides several hosting options for projects who do not want to run their own explorers.

Autoscout allows you to set up an explorer in minutes. Hosted on Blockscout’s cloud infra.
Explorer as a Service provides an SLA, optimized on prem hosting, and explorer customization.

Blockscout open-source software can be forked and used by any project to quickly set up a full-featured explorer environment. Be sure to check the requirements and tune your environment before deploying an explorer.

Running a new instance? Let us know and we’ll add it to chains.blockscout.com. We also use internal tracking tools to detect URLs of self-hosted instances, and add newly deployed explorers manually when we find them.

Deployment Options

Common deployment methods below, there are additional deployment methods as well described in the deployment section.

Configuration

ENV Variables
Microservices
- Includes many plugin services written in Rust and available via the Microservices RS repository.
Configs
- Additional available configurations beyond ENV updates.
Architecture
- Describes the Blockscout architecture including an indexer architecture overview.