# How to configure Weaviate

Configure and manage key operational aspects of your Weaviate instance with these guides:

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:::card{title="Authentication and authorization" href="/guides/how-to-configure-weaviate-authz-authn" icon="key"}
Set up methods to authenticate and to verify user identities before granting access.
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:::card{title="Compression/Quantization (PQ/BQ/RQ/SQ)" href="/guides/how-to-configure-weaviate-compression" icon="minimize-2"}
Reduce memory usage with Product, Binary, Rotational or Scalar Quantization techniques.
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:::card{title="Modules" href="/guides/how-to-configure-weaviate-modules" icon="puzzle"}
Explore Weaviate's ecosystem of vectorizer, generative (RAG), and other modules.
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:::card{title="MCP server" href="/guides/ai-assisted-vibe-coding-configuration-mcp-server" icon="bot"}
Enable the built-in Model Context Protocol server so LLMs and IDE assistants can interact with your Weaviate instance.
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## Deployment configuration

These guides cover server-level configuration for your Weaviate deployment:

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:::card{title="Database configuration" href="/guides/database-configuration-overview" icon="settings"}
Configure environment variables, ports, and runtime settings.
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:::card{title="Monitoring and logging" href="/guides/monitoring-and-logging-monitoring" icon="chart-bar"}
Collect metrics, configure logging, and monitor cluster health.
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:::card{title="RBAC" href="/guides/authorization-and-authentication-weaviate-configuration-rbac" icon="shield-user"}
Configure Role-Based Access Control for fine-grained permissions.
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:::card{title="Replication and scaling" href="/guides/replication-and-scaling-replication" icon="copy"}
Set up data replication and scaling across nodes for high availability.
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:::card{title="Storage and backups" href="/guides/storage-and-backups-backups" icon="save"}
Configure backup, restore, and persistence for your Weaviate instance.
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## Questions and feedback

Have a question or feedback? Here's how to reach us.

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:::card{title="Community Forum" href="https://forum.weaviate.io/c/support" icon="messages-square"}
Ask questions and connect with other developers on our **Community forum**.
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:::card{title="Support" href="/guides/support-overview" icon="life-buoy"}
Weaviate Cloud user or customer? Find the right channel on the **Support page**.
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## Related pages

- [Agents](./agents-index.md)
- [AI-assisted Weaviate code generation](./ai-assisted-vibe-coding-index.md)
- [APIs](./apis-index.md)
- [Authorization and authentication](./authorization-and-authentication-index.md)
- [Benchmarks](./benchmarks-index.md)
- [Best practices](./best-practices-index.md)
- [Client libraries](./clients-index.md)
- [Client Libraries / SDKs](./client-libraries-index.md)
- [Cloud](./cloud-index.md)
- [Cloud account management](./cloud-account-management-index.md)

# Agent Instructions

This portal answers questions programmatically. To receive a synthesized,
source-cited answer instead of crawling page by page, append the `?ask=`
query parameter to any page URL on this site:

    /guides/quickstart?ask=how+do+I+authenticate

Optional parameters:

- `&goal=<what-you-are-trying-to-do>` steers the answer toward your
  objective (e.g. `&goal=write+a+python+client`).
- `&version=<label>` scopes the answer to a mounted version when the
  portal publishes more than one.

The response is `text/markdown`: the answer followed by a `# Sources` list
of the portal pages it was grounded in. Status codes are the contract:

- `200` — the answer; `402` — the portal owner’s plan or answer credits are
  exhausted (surface this to your operator; do NOT retry); `429` — you are
  rate-limited; back off for the `Retry-After` seconds; `503` — the answer
  lane is temporarily unavailable; fall back to crawling the `.md` pages.

For the full corpus map read `llms.txt` at the site root; for the tool
surface (search + page fetch as MCP tools) see `/mcp`.