<Note>This page provides a detailed reference of all environment variables supported by Sourcebot. If you're just looking to get up and running, we recommend starting with the [deployment guides](/docs/deployment/docker-compose) instead.</Note>
| `AUTH_CREDENTIALS_LOGIN_ENABLED` | `true` | <p>Enables/disables authentication with basic credentials. Username and passwords are stored encrypted at rest within the postgres database. Checkout the [auth docs](/docs/configuration/auth/overview) for more info</p> |
| `AUTH_EMAIL_CODE_LOGIN_ENABLED` | `false` | <p>Enables/disables authentication with a login code that's sent to a users email. `SMTP_CONNECTION_URL` and `EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS` must also be set. Checkout the [auth docs](/docs/configuration/auth/overview) for more info </p> |
| `AUTH_SECRET` | Automatically generated at startup if no value is provided. Generated using `openssl rand -base64 33` | <p>Used to validate login session cookies</p> |
| `AUTH_URL` | - | <p>URL of your Sourcebot deployment, e.g., `https://example.com` or `http://localhost:3000`.</p> |
| `CONFIG_PATH` | `-` | <p>The container relative path to the declerative configuration file. See [this doc](/docs/configuration/declarative-config) for more info.</p> |
| `DATA_CACHE_DIR` | `$DATA_DIR/.sourcebot` | <p>The root data directory in which all data written to disk by Sourcebot will be located.</p> |
| `DATA_DIR` | `/data` | <p>The directory within the container to store all persistent data. Typically, this directory will be volume mapped such that data is persisted across container restarts (e.g., `docker run -v $(pwd):/data`)</p> |
| `DATABASE_DATA_DIR` | `$DATA_CACHE_DIR/db` | <p>The data directory for the default Postgres database.</p> |
| `DATABASE_URL` | `postgresql://postgres@ localhost:5432/sourcebot` | <p>Connection string of your Postgres database. By default, a Postgres database is automatically provisioned at startup within the container.</p><p>If you'd like to use a non-default schema, you can provide it as a parameter in the database url.</p><p>You can also use `DATABASE_HOST`, `DATABASE_USERNAME`, `DATABASE_PASSWORD`, `DATABASE_NAME`, and `DATABASE_ARGS` to construct the database url.</p> |
| `EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS` | `-` | <p>The email address that transactional emails will be sent from. See [this doc](/docs/configuration/transactional-emails) for more info.</p> |
| `FORCE_ENABLE_ANONYMOUS_ACCESS` | `false` | <p>When enabled, [anonymous access](/docs/configuration/auth/access-settings#anonymous-access) to the organization will always be enabled</p>
| `REDIS_DATA_DIR` | `$DATA_CACHE_DIR/redis` | <p>The data directory for the default Redis instance.</p> |
| `REDIS_URL` | `redis://localhost:6379` | <p>Connection string of your Redis instance. By default, a Redis database is automatically provisioned at startup within the container.</p> |
| `REPO_SYNC_RETRY_BASE_SLEEP_SECONDS` | `60` | <p>The base sleep duration (in seconds) for exponential backoff when retrying repository sync operations that fail</p> |
| `SMTP_CONNECTION_URL` | `-` | <p>The url to the SMTP service used for sending transactional emails. See [this doc](/docs/configuration/transactional-emails) for more info.</p> |
| `SOURCEBOT_ENCRYPTION_KEY` | Automatically generated at startup if no value is provided. Generated using `openssl rand -base64 24` | <p>Used to encrypt connection secrets and generate API keys.</p> |
| `SOURCEBOT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED` | `false` | <p>Enables/disables telemetry collection in Sourcebot. See [this doc](/docs/overview.mdx#telemetry) for more info.</p> |
| `GITHUB_REVIEW_AGENT_APP_ID` | `-` | <p>The GitHub App ID used for review agent authentication.</p> |
| `GITHUB_REVIEW_AGENT_APP_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH` | `-` | <p>The container relative path to the private key file for the GitHub App used by the review agent.</p> |
| `GITHUB_REVIEW_AGENT_APP_WEBHOOK_SECRET` | `-` | <p>The webhook secret for the GitHub App used by the review agent.</p> |
### Overriding environment variables from the config
You can override environment variables from the config file by using the `environmentOverrides` property. See [this doc](/docs/configuration/config-file#overriding-environment-variables-from-the-config) for more info.
