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title: Settings - Staging
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can access these settings in the **Settings** application under the **Versioning & Synchronization** -> **Staging** category. In this section, you can adjust settings related to the [Content staging](https://docs.kentico.com/13/deploying-websites/content-staging.md) functionality.

| Client (source only)           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Log content changes            | Indicates whether the system generates staging tasks for synchronizing changes of page content.                                                                                                                                                |
| Log data changes               | Indicates whether the system generates staging tasks for synchronizing changes of custom table data.                                                                                                                                           |
| Log object changes             | Indicates whether the system generates staging tasks for synchronizing changes of objects (for objects that support staging).                                                                                                                  |
| Log staging changes            | If enabled, staging tasks are created for changes made as a result of incoming staging synchronization from another server.                                                                                                                    |
| Log export tasks               | Specifies whether tasks are logged for the [export feature](https://docs.kentico.com/13/deploying-websites/exporting-and-importing-sites.md) when objects are deleted (incremental update support).                                            |
| Staging service (target only)  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Enable staging service         | Specifies whether the staging service that handles incoming synchronization tasks is enabled. Enable this setting for target servers in your staging topology.                                                                                 |
| Staging service authentication | Sets the authentication type used by the staging service.<br>See [Using X.509 authentication](https://docs.kentico.com/13/deploying-websites/content-staging/using-x-509-authentication.md).                                                   |
| Staging service user name      | Staging service user name for username authentication.                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Staging service password       | Staging service password for username authentication.<br>**Note**: After you enter and save a password, the field always displays 8 "masking" characters, even if the password is longer or shorter. This measure helps protect your password. |
| X509 Certificates              |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Client key ID                  | Staging service client certificate key ID.                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Server key ID                  | Staging service server certificate key ID.                                                                                                                                                                                                     |