Environment Variables

Most of Sleigh’s settings are defined via environment variables set on your hosting platform. Below is the list of all available options:

Key	Value Type	Required	Description
CACHETYPE	string	no	Options: (blank), ‘DB’, or ‘REDIS’
DATABASE_URL	string	yes	Connection string to your Postgres DB. If using Dokku, this is automatically set.
DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS	string	yes	DNS name for your Sleigh instance
ELASTIC_LINK	string	no	URL to your 3rd party logging server’s web interface
ELASTIC_URL	string	no	URL to your 3rd party logging server’s listening agent, sending JSON data via HTTP post
EMAIL_HOST	string	no	DNS name of your SMTP server
EMAIL_PORT	integer	no	Port for SMTP communication
EMAIL_HOST_USER	string	no	Username for sending email account
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD	string	no	Password for sending email account
EMAIL_USE_TLS	bool	no	Whether to connect via TLS with SMTP server, defaults to false
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL	string	no	Email address to use in the From: header
ORG	string	no	Name of your organization, display on login screen
REDIS_URL	string	no	Connection string to your Redis server. If using Dokku, this is automatically set.
SECRET_KEY	string	no	For best security, you should put in your own but will use pre-generated (public) key if not
SENTRY_DSN	string	no	Your API key for Sentry.io to collect logs, errors, and performance data