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projectsend:status could say what an installation holds and how many accounts it has, but nothing about whether anybody was using it. Adds a `usage` block -- downloads split staff/clients/anonymous, uploads, and five allowlisted action counts -- plus `activity.last_client_login_at`, `health.scheduler` and `health.failed_jobs_latest_at`. The scheduler is the one worth having on its own. `health.queues` catches a dead worker; nothing caught a dead scheduler, and its first symptom is not a stalled feature but an expired file that is still downloadable, because the job that was going to remove it stopped running weeks ago. Nothing about the installation looks wrong while that is true. `failed_jobs_latest_at` exists because the count beside it cannot say whether anything is wrong *now*, and reading it as though it could is a category error rather than a threshold wanting tuning. The table is swept daily, so the count spans a retention window -- one the installation chooses, and one that can be set to keep-forever by somebody who treats a failed job as evidence rather than debris. Two identical installations therefore report different numbers, and on a keep-forever one the count grows until any fixed threshold trips. A timestamp is independent of how long rows are kept: 27 failures whose newest is three weeks old is an installation that has been healthy for three weeks and has not been swept yet. `usage` is a rolling window with no lifetime totals, and that is a correctness decision rather than a presentational one: activity_log is never pruned, so a lifetime count over it gets slower every day of the installation's life while a windowed one stays flat. The window is emitted as `window_days` rather than left for the reader to assume. The actions are an allowlist, not a `group by action`. This document leaves the installation and Action gains cases most weeks, so an open group-by would ship new action names outward with nobody having decided they should go -- and some of them (account.erased, two_factor.reset) are somebody's compliance event, not a business metric. It is also ~30x cheaper: five keyed counts ride (action, created_at) while a group-by starts from created_at and reads rows. The scheduler's failure message and the queue exception text are omitted for the same reason; they are the fields here that can carry a path or a stack trace, and a count with a timestamp says "go and look", which is all a watcher is owed. The two indexes ship as a pair and the migration explains at length why. Measured at 2.1M rows: adding (action, created_at) alone fixes the windowed counts and takes last_staff_login_at -- already running hourly on every tenant -- from 0.63s to 7.7s, because the planner switches to it, still needs actor_type, and does a scattered primary-key lookup per row. With both, that query is answered from the index without reading a row at all (0.0004s) and the whole new usage block costs ~70ms. Also documents the keys as a contract, the way `capabilities` already is. This one fails worse: a renamed capability key breaks a comparison somebody is watching, a renamed usage key produces a chart that is silently empty, and nobody gets paged for a flat line.
ProjectSend
Share files with your clients, from your own server.
ProjectSend is a self-hosted application for getting files to the people you work with. You upload what you want to send, choose exactly who can see it, and each client signs in to their own private page to download it.
No public link passed around by email, no third-party service holding your clients' documents, no per-seat pricing. It runs on your server, and the files stay there.
What it does
For the people you send to
- A private area per client, showing only what has been shared with them
- Sign in with an email address, with optional two-factor authentication
- Search, filter and sort their files; download one, several as a zip, or a whole folder
- Optional comments on a file, so questions live next to the thing they are about
- Email notifications when something new arrives, in their own language
For you
- Resumable uploads that survive a dropped connection, so large files actually arrive
- Organise with folders, categories and client groups
- Share with one client, a whole group, or publicly — and set an expiry date or a download limit
- Thumbnails and previews for images and documents
- Storage quotas per client, and custom fields for the details you need to keep on them
- A full activity log and download history: who got what, and when
For the installation
- Roles and permissions for your own team, so an uploader is not an administrator
- Sign-in the way you already work: LDAP, social sign-in, or plain email and password
- Themes for the client-facing pages and for outgoing email
- 16 languages
- A REST API with scoped tokens and generated OpenAPI docs
- Privacy controls, including GDPR-grade account erasure with a grace period
- Local disk, S3-compatible storage, or Google Cloud Storage
Screenshots
The dashboard — what is in the installation, and what has been happening in it.
Your library — folders, categories, and who each file is shared with.
What your client sees — only their files, nothing else.
Getting started
With Docker — the quickest path, and the one we recommend. Nothing to build: the published image ships with its dependencies and its frontend already compiled.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectsend/projectsend/main/docker/production/compose.example.yaml
# edit the passwords and APP_URL in it, then:
docker compose -f compose.example.yaml up -d
Open APP_URL and the first thing you see is a setup screen that creates your administrator
account — or uncomment ADMIN_EMAIL and ADMIN_PASSWORD in the file first, with a password of
your own, and it is created for you.
Before you put real files in it, read DOCKER.md — where your database and uploads actually live, how to move them onto paths you chose, and how to back them up so an upgrade can't take them with it.
Without Docker — for servers where it isn't an option, install from a release zip.
INSTALL.md covers requirements, .env, nginx, the background worker and cron,
updating and troubleshooting. You do not need Composer or npm on the server; the zip ships ready to
run.
Already running it? UPDATE.md is how you move to a new version — one command on Docker, one script on your own server, and what to check afterwards either way.
Want to work on ProjectSend itself? Cloning the repository gets you a development copy, not an installation: the dependencies and the compiled frontend are deliberately not in git, so a clone needs Composer and npm before it runs. CONTRIBUTING.md has the sequence, and it is short.
Coming from ProjectSend Legacy?
The previous generation of ProjectSend lives on at projectsend/legacy. This is a rebuild rather than an upgrade, so moving across is an import rather than an update — install fresh, then bring your old site into it with the migration tool: accounts, clients, groups, categories, folders, files and history.
It never writes to your old install, and any run can be undone with a single command. MIGRATING-FROM-V1.md explains what comes across, the two routes (same machine, or a portable export from a server you can't reach), and the one change your clients will notice: they sign in with their email address now, using the same password.
Contributing
Bug reports, translations and pull requests are all welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md for how to set up a development copy, what the checks are, and the contributor agreement.
Found a security issue? Please report it privately through GitHub's security advisories rather than opening a public issue.
License
Free software under the GNU General Public License v2, or (at your option) any later version — see LICENSE. Use it, study it, change it, share it.
Commercial licenses are available for organizations that cannot work under copyleft terms; LICENSING.md explains both options. Contributions require signing a CLA, for reasons set out in CONTRIBUTING.md.