# Hatchet Documentation

> Hatchet is a distributed task queue and workflow engine for modern applications. It provides durable execution, concurrency control, rate limiting, and observability for background tasks and workflows in Python, TypeScript, and Go.

## Guide

- [🪓 Welcome](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/index)
- [Architecture](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/architecture)
- [Guarantees & Tradeoffs](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/guarantees-and-tradeoffs)
- [Hatchet Cloud Quickstart](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/hatchet-cloud-quickstart)
- [Advanced Setup](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/setup)
- [Install Docs MCP](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/install-docs-mcp)
- [Tasks](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/your-first-task)
- [Workers](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/workers)
- [Running Tasks](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/running-your-task)
- [Environments](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/environments)
- [Running Tasks](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/running-tasks)
- [Run and Wait Trigger](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/run-with-results)
- [Run Without Wait Trigger](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/run-no-wait)
- [Scheduled Trigger](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/scheduled-runs)
- [Cron Trigger](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/cron-runs)
- [Event Trigger](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/run-on-event)
- [Bulk Run Many](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/bulk-run)
- [Webhooks](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/webhooks)
- [Inter-Service Triggering](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/inter-service-triggering)
- [Running with Docker](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/docker)
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/troubleshooting-workers)
- [Worker Health Checks](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/worker-healthchecks)
- [Autoscaling Workers](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/autoscaling-workers)
- [Concurrency](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/concurrency)
- [Rate Limits](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/rate-limits)
- [Priority](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/priority)
- [Task Orchestration](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/orchestration)
- [Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/dags)
- [Conditional Workflows](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/conditional-workflows)
- [On Failure Tasks](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/on-failure-tasks)
- [Child Spawning](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/child-spawning)
- [Additional Metadata](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/additional-metadata)
- [Durable Execution](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/durable-execution)
- [Durable Events](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/durable-events)
- [Durable Sleep](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/durable-sleep)
- [Best Practices](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/durable-best-practices)
- [Timeouts](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/timeouts)
- [Retry Policies](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/retry-policies)
- [Bulk Retries and Cancellations](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/bulk-retries-and-cancellations)
- [Sticky Assignment](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/sticky-assignment)
- [Worker Affinity](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/worker-affinity)
- [Manual Slot Release](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/manual-slot-release)
- [Logging](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/logging)
- [OpenTelemetry](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/opentelemetry)
- [Prometheus Metrics](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/prometheus-metrics)
- [Cancellation](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/cancellation)
- [Streaming](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/streaming)
- [SDK Improvements](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/v1-sdk-improvements)
- [Engine Migration Guide](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/migration-guide-engine)
- [Python Migration Guide](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/migration-guide-python)
- [Typescript Migration Guide](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/migration-guide-typescript)
- [Go Migration Guide](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/migration-guide-go)
- [Asyncio](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/asyncio)
- [Pydantic](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/pydantic)
- [Lifespans](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/lifespans)
- [Dependency Injection](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/dependency-injection)
- [Dataclass Support](https://docs.hatchet.run/home/dataclasses)
## Self Hosting

- [Introduction](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/index)
- [Hatchet Lite](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/hatchet-lite)
- [Docker Compose](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/docker-compose)
- [Quickstart](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/kubernetes-quickstart)
- [Installing with Glasskube](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/kubernetes-glasskube)
- [Networking](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/networking)
- [Configuring the Helm Chart](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/kubernetes-helm-configuration)
- [Setting up an External Database](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/kubernetes-external-database)
- [High Availability](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/high-availability)
- [Engine Configuration Options](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/configuration-options)
- [Prometheus Metrics](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/prometheus-metrics)
- [Worker Configuration Options](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/worker-configuration-options)
- [Downgrading Versions](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/downgrading-versions)
- [Benchmarking](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/benchmarking)
- [Data Retention](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/data-retention)
- [Improving Performance](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/improving-performance)
- [Read Replicas](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/read-replicas)
- [Trace Sampling](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/sampling)
- [SMTP Server](https://docs.hatchet.run/self-hosting/smtp-server)
## Contributing

- [Contributing](https://docs.hatchet.run/contributing/index)
- [GitHub App Setup](https://docs.hatchet.run/contributing/github-app-setup)
- [SDKs](https://docs.hatchet.run/contributing/sdks)
## CLI Reference

- [Setup & Installation](https://docs.hatchet.run/cli/index)
- [Profiles](https://docs.hatchet.run/cli/profiles)
- [Running Hatchet Locally](https://docs.hatchet.run/cli/running-hatchet-locally)
- [Running Workers Locally](https://docs.hatchet.run/cli/running-workers-locally)
- [Triggering Workflows](https://docs.hatchet.run/cli/triggering-workflows)
- [Using the Hatchet TUI](https://docs.hatchet.run/cli/tui)