Enabling Cody on Self-Hosted Sourcegraph Instance

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I am reaching out for assistance with my self-hosted Sourcegraph instance (Docker).

I have multiple repositories connected and indexed successfully. However, I am encountering an issue where the Cody menu option does not appear next to the code search option, in the web interface.

I have updated the site configuration with the following settings:

{
  "cody": {
    "enabled": true,
    "openai": {
      "accessToken": "<MY_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
      "model": "gpt-4"
    }
  }
}

Then restarted the instance to make sure the new settings took effect.

Despite these steps, I still do not see the Cody menu option in the web interface. I have reviewed the documentation and troubleshooting guides but haven’t been able to enable it yet.

Could someone please assist me in identifying what’s missing or incorrect in my setup?

I’m eager to try it out and learn how can I use Cody to enhance my development workflow.

Thank you for your time and support!

Best regards,

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Hello @elvismdev

Thank you for reporting the issue.

One question, are you on enterprise tier plan?
If so, please reach out to support@sourcegraph.com or via your enterprise support channel provided.

If you are on free/pro plan, self-hosting of the Sourcegraph instance isn’t support anymore on that plans.

Thank you.

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Hi @PriNova,

Thank you for your response.

I am currently on the Free plan. I wanted to clarify a few points to better understand the situation:

  • Is the entire product suite, including both Sourcegraph and Cody, unsupported for self-hosting on the Free/Pro plans?

  • Is self-hosting of Sourcegraph still supported for Free plan users, or is it being deprecated in favor of the online web version?

  • If self-hosting is no longer supported on the Free plan, what are my options for using Sourcegraph and Cody together?

I have been using my self-hosted Sourcegraph instance to manage and index multiple repositories and was hoping to integrate Cody to enhance my development workflow. Your guidance on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your assistance.

Elvis

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Hi @elvismdev

Regarding to your questions,

Self-hosting via local Sourcegraph instance or via cloud hosting is unsupported for free/pro plans, since Sourcegraph version 5.7.

If your projects rely solely locally, you benefit from the symbol search engine included directly in Cody. If your project is connected via a publicly remote repository, it will be indexed for symbol search and embeddings via the Sourcegraph global instance. As free/pro tier you can of course use additionally the Sourcegraph search extentension available for VS Code.

Using multiple repositories at once is only available over Cody Web https://cody.dev

If you need context from multiple repositories in a single workspace, you can use the menu item: File → Add folder to workspace (VS Code only) and trigger the index updating via CRTL + SHIFT + P and search for “Cody: Update search index…”

I hope that helps.