General Settings

This section provides information on how to customize the application through the settings. Click on the user icon on the top right and choose "Settings" to access basic customization options.

Profit Currency

rotki calculates everything, including your total profit/loss during the PnL report, in a given fiat currency, called the profit_currency. By default, this is USD. You can change this by clicking on the currency icon in the top right menu and selecting your preferred currency.

Application Settings

Access the settings menu via User icon → Settings.

General Settings

Anonymous Usage Analytics

Specify whether the application can submit anonymous usage analytics. This helps measure active users while ensuring data is anonymized and contains no sensitive information.

Auto detect tokens

Specify whether to automatically detect tokens and refresh balances by periodically checking historical events.

Display Date in Localtime

Specify whether dates in CSV exports should be displayed in local time rather than UTC. Enabled by default.

CSV Export

Specify your preferred date format and delimiter for CSV exports.

Automatic database sync

Whether to force push when a size discrepancy occurs during automatic db sync.

Version update check

Set how often (in hours) the version will be checked for updates.

Balance Snapshots Saving Frequency

Set how often (in hours) the balance data snapshots are saved. This data helps calculate statistics historical and graph data for the user.

BTC Derivation Gap Limit

Set the derivation gap limit for deriving addresses from a bitcoin xpub. More information here.

Date Format

Set the date display and date input format in the rotki user interface, such as %m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S for month/day/year hour:minutes:seconds. Check here for valid formats.

Amount Settings

Main Currency

Same as changing the profit currency.

Floating Precision

Set the number of decimal points shown in the UI for floating point numbers.

Thousands Separator

Set the symbol separating every 3 digits for large numbers, e.g., 1,000,000.

Decimal Separator

Set the symbol separating the floating part of a number, e.g., 5.42.

Subscript Format

Whether to apply subscript formatting for consecutive zeros after the decimal point in small numbers, e.g., 0.000000087 => 0.0₇87.

Amount Rounding

Choose the rounding mechanism: Round up, Round down, or Half even. Customize how amounts and values are rounded.

Abbreviation for large numbers

If enabled, large numbers will be abbreviated, e.g., 1,234,567 as 1.23 M. Set the minimum value to be abbreviated.

Currency Location

Set whether the currency symbol appears before or after the number, e.g., $1,000 or 1,000$.

NFT Settings

Include NFTs in Graphs and Total Amounts

Decide whether to include NFTs in total net worth calculations and displayed graphs.

NFT Images Rendering Setting

For privacy, allow images from all or specific domains. More details here.

History Event Settings

Configure settings related to history event processing and management.

Auto Create Profit Events

Automatically create virtual profit/loss events when processing history. This setting controls whether rotki generates profit and loss events during history processing.

Internal Transaction Conflict Repull

Configure how rotki handles internal transaction conflicts. You can set the number of transactions to repull per batch and the frequency (in minutes) at which the system automatically attempts to repull conflicting internal transactions.

Skipped External Events

View and manage events that were skipped during external event processing. This section shows a summary of skipped events grouped by location. You can export the skipped events to CSV or attempt to reprocess them.

External Service Settings

Configure retry and timeout behavior for external service calls made by rotki.

Query Retry Limit

The number of times to retry a query to external services before giving up. Default is 5.

Connect Timeout

The number of seconds to wait before giving up on establishing a connection to an external service. Default is 30 seconds.

Read Timeout

The number of seconds to wait for the first byte after a connection to an external service has been established. Default is 30 seconds.

Suppress Missing API Key Notifications

Select services for which you do not want to receive notifications about missing API keys. Supported services include Etherscan, Beaconchain, The Graph, and Helius.

Backend Settings

Log Level

Specify the minimum severity level for recorded log messages. You can change this at runtime without restarting rotki. This is useful for temporarily enabling debug logs when troubleshooting issues, without needing to modify the rotki_config.json file or restart the application. Additional log-related settings such as max log size, max number of log files, and logging from other modules can be configured from the login screen backend settings.