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# Tonic Structural User Guide

The Tonic Structural platform creates safe, realistic datasets to use in staging environments or for local development. The Structural web application, which includes the [Structural Agent](/app/structural-ai-and-agent/agent-about.md) AI chat, and the [Structural API](/app/api/api-documentation.md) can be used by engineers, data analysts, or security experts.

Structural connects to source databases that contain sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or protected health information (PHI). To protect that data, Structural transforms the sensitive values and then writes the transformed data to a destination location.

![Data flow from the source database through Tonic Structural to the destination database](https://3378426797-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-LSQCLFQ4bslJ-HYc8c3%2Fuploads%2FY6GHvOETiRptLMt0q7It%2Ftonic-overview-diagram.png?alt=media\&token=c650ef01-18fd-4e47-8f43-cbc31a7d552b)

New to Structural? Review the [Tonic Structural workflow overview](/app/readme-1/tonic-workflows.md). For information on how to create a Structural account and start a Structural free trial, go to [Getting started with the Structural free trial](/app/quick-start-guide.md).

Want to know what's in the latest Structural releases? Go to the [Tonic Structural release notes](https://www.tonic.ai/product-release-notes/structural).

## Connect to your data

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Workspaces</strong></td><td>A workspace contains the data connections and data generation configuration.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/workspace/managing-workspaces.md">Creating and managing workspaces</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Data connectors</strong></td><td>Each data connector allows Structural to read from and write to a specific type of data source.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/setting-up-your-database/database-connectors.md">About data connectors</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Configure and generate transformed data

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Privacy Hub</strong></td><td>View and update the current protection status based on the sensitivity scan and workspace configuration.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/generation/privacy-hub.md">Privacy Hub</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Database View</strong></td><td>Configure transformation options for tables and columns.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/generation/database-view.md">Database View</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Generators</strong></td><td>A generator is assigned to a column and performs a data transformation.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/generation/generators.md">Generator information</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Subsetting</strong></td><td>Configure a subset of source data to include in the transformed destination data.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/generation/subsetting.md">Subsetting data</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Generate data</strong></td><td>Run the data generation process to produce transformed destination data.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/workflows/data-generation-run-job.md">Running data generation jobs</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Schema changes</strong></td><td>Review and address changes to the source data schema.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/generation/schema-changes.md">Viewing and resolving schema changes</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Configure and manage Structural

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Structural architecture</strong></td><td>Components of the Structural application.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/admin/architecture-diagram.md">Structural architecture</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Manage Structural access</strong></td><td>Manage who has access to Structural instances and organizations.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/structural-user-access/structural-organizations.md">Structural user access</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Configure Structural settings</strong></td><td>Customize environment settings to control Structural behavior.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/admin/environment-variables-setting.md">Configuring environment settings</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Monitor Structural and view logs</strong></td><td>Monitor Structural services and share logs with Tonic.ai.</td><td></td><td><a href="/app/admin/tonic-monitoring-logging.md">Structural monitoring and logging</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

To check the current operational status of Structural Cloud, go to [status.tonic.ai](https://status.tonic.ai).

Need help with Structural? Contact <support@tonic.ai>.


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