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@@ -225,12 +225,17 @@ Please ping us in the [`#contributing`](https://signoz-community.slack.com/archi
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- run `sudo make dev-setup` to configure local setup to run query-service,
- Comment out `frontend` service section at [`deploy/docker/clickhouse-setup/docker-compose.yaml#L68`](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/blob/develop/deploy/docker/clickhouse-setup/docker-compose.yaml#L68)
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- Comment out `query-service` section at [`deploy/docker/clickhouse-setup/docker-compose.yaml#L41`,](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/blob/develop/deploy/docker/clickhouse-setup/docker-compose.yaml#L41)
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- add below configuration to `clickhouse` section at [`deploy/docker/clickhouse-setup/docker-compose.yaml`,](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/blob/develop/deploy/docker/clickhouse-setup/docker-compose.yaml)
```
ports:
- 9001:9000
```
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- run `cd pkg/query-service/` to move to `query-service` directory,
- Then, you need to create a `.env` file with the following environment variable