That's a silly reason. At simplest, you could a) log the entire config at startup. or b) create a specific file with config used, if logging is too messy.

That's a silly reason. At simplest, you could a) log the entire config at startup. or b) create a specific file with config used, if logging is too messy. or c) make an API to return the running config. or d) use envvars in a container, that you can just dump from 'env' at will. All of which would be cleaner and saner than browsing top.