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From: Nicolas Patry <patry.nicolas@protonmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:38:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs: Update README.md (#639)

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 You can consult the OpenAPI documentation of the `text-generation-inference` REST API using the `/docs` route.
 The Swagger UI is also available at: [https://huggingface.github.io/text-generation-inference](https://huggingface.github.io/text-generation-inference).
 
+### Using on private models or gated models
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+You can use `HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN` environment variable to set the token used by `text-generation-inference` to give access to protected ressources.
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 ### Distributed Tracing
 
 `text-generation-inference` is instrumented with distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry. You can use this feature