From 261274ea26b534054918ff6b5f29fc53a84be38d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy <trishank.kuppusamy@datadoghq.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:28:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] docs/tutorial: Add a note about universal variables (#10548)

Link to some best practices for universal variables.
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 doc_src/tutorial.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/doc_src/tutorial.rst b/doc_src/tutorial.rst
index 43f3e932a..46decc0a3 100644
--- a/doc_src/tutorial.rst
+++ b/doc_src/tutorial.rst
@@ -750,6 +750,7 @@ Now in another shell::
     > echo $EDITOR
     vim
 
+You only need to set universal variables once interactively. There is no need to add them to your :ref:`config files <initialization>`. For more details, see :ref:`Universal Variables <universal-variables>`.
 
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