diff --git a/website/content/docs/configure.mdx b/website/content/docs/configure.mdx
index ea0a8f1cc..dfa65c554 100644
--- a/website/content/docs/configure.mdx
+++ b/website/content/docs/configure.mdx
@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ each can be found below:
 - `PACKER_CONFIG_DIR` - The location for the home directory of Packer. See
   [Packer's home directory](#packer-s-home-directory) for more.
 
+- `PKR_GITHUB_API_TOKEN` - When using Packer init on HCL2 templates, Packer
+  queries the public API from Github which limits the ammount of queries on can
+  set the `PKR_GITHUB_API_TOKEN` with a Github Token to make it higher.
+
 - `PACKER_LOG` - Setting this to any value other than "" (empty string) or
   "0" will enable the logger. See the [debugging
   page](/docs/other/debugging).