# Configure environment settings

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Included in the Basic API.
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You can use the Tonic Structural API to configure selected [environment settings](https://docs.tonic.ai/app/admin/environment-variables-setting). The settings that you can configure are the same settings that are listed on the **Environment Settings** tab of **Structural Settings**.

## Identify the settings that you can configure <a href="#tonic-api-environment-setting-config-identify" id="tonic-api-environment-setting-config-identify"></a>

To identify the settings that you can use the API to configure, use:

[<mark style="background-color:blue;">**GET**</mark>**&#x20;/api/environment/settings**](https://app.tonic.ai/apidocs/index.html#/EnvironmentSettings/GetSettingValuesAsync)

For each setting, the response includes the setting name, the current value, and the default value.

## Update an environment setting <a href="#tonic-api-environment-setting-config-update" id="tonic-api-environment-setting-config-update"></a>

To update the value of an environment setting, use:

[<mark style="background-color:green;">**POST**</mark>**&#x20;/api/environment/settings/\<setting name>**](https://app.tonic.ai/apidocs/index.html#/EnvironmentSettings/SetSettingValueAsync)

The request body provides the new value.

## Restore an environment setting to the default value <a href="#tonic-api-environment-setting-config-reset" id="tonic-api-environment-setting-config-reset"></a>

For an environment setting that you can configure from the API, the default value is either:

* The setting value in the .yaml file.
* If the setting is not configured in the .yaml file, the Structural default value.

To restore the default value, use:

[<mark style="background-color:red;">**DELETE**</mark>**&#x20;/api/environment/settings/\<setting name>**](https://app.tonic.ai/apidocs/index.html#/EnvironmentSettings/UnsetSettingValueAsync)

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