# Textual Tonic Textual provides a single tool to allow you to put your file-based data to work for you. You can also use Textual to do simple redaction and synthesis of sensitive values, to produce files in the same format to use for development and training. Each original file becomes an output file in the same format, with the sensitive values replaced. Textual can be deployed either: * Self-hosted by the customer * In Tonic Cloud, which is a managed service that Tonic.ai provides ## Documentation For comprehensive feature documentation for Textual, go to the [Textual User Guide](/textual/tonic-textual-guide.md). ## Audit logs The Textual application saves log files that can be used to: * Diagnose issues * Troubleshoot bugs * Help to identify when performance can be improved * Generally improve Textual and its features On-premise customers can aggregate these logs into their logging solution or SEIM for analysis and monitoring. Customers can also share logs with Tonic.ai so that our staff can help to handle errors. ## Single sign-on (SSO) For self-hosted instances, Textual supports a variety of external identity providers that allow customers to: * Centrally manage users * Define authentication criteria to log in to Textual Textual supports: * Azure Active Directory * Github * Google Workspace SSO * Okta [Single sign-on (SSO) for Textual](/textual/textual-install-administer/user-access-textual/textual-sso.md) ## Password encryption The Textual application hashes all stored user passwords. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.tonic.ai/trust-center/tonic.ai-applications/textual.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.