Introduction
Primary Sites store your robotics data in the cloud, and can be Foxglove- or self-hosted.
Foxglove-hosted
When you sign up for a Foxglove organization, you are assigned a Foxglove-hosted Primary Site by default. Your organization's data files will be imported to this Primary Site.
Self-hosted
Set up a self-hosted Primary Site to store and access robotics data with your own cloud storage solution.
Self-hosted Primary Sites are deployed in your own cloud or on-prem infrastructure to provide highly available storage and access of your data. We currently support Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and self-hosted Kubernetes deployments. Set your cloud accounts up in the data region of your choice to minimize latency and bandwidth costs.
With a self-hosted primary site, the contents of your messages and attachments never leave your cloud. Other metadata such as message timestamps, topic names, and schema information are sent to the Foxglove control plane to enable app functionality.
To deploy and manage your Primary Site, you must be familiar with Kubernetes, Helm, and cloud environments.