Dashboard
Your summary and starting place
After signing-in, you will be taken to the Dashboard page. The dashboard provides an overview of your organization along with deep-links to respective areas of the app.
Dashboard after first sign-in
After signing-in, you will be taken to the Dashboard page. The dashboard provides an overview of your organization along with deep-links to respective areas of the app.
You can use this button for the following features
Name icon
- Edit your user profile
- Toggle between dark and light themes
- Open a support request
- Sign out of the tool
Settings button houses the following features
- Users - Enables you to view, add, disable, delete, update users, user roles
- Single Sign-on - Enables you to configure single sign-on (SSO) for your organization
- Organization - View or Edit your organization settings
- Discovery Logs - View the status of your discovery jobs
Lock button houses the credential features. You will have to be an admin in configure8 for this icon to be enabled.
credentials
- You can view, add, edit, disable, delete credentials for your org. You can also schedule a discovery job for credentials that allow auto discovery.
Information button provides easy access to the documentation and support features.
information pages
- Help Center - Get to the documentation pages easily
- Support Request - Open a support ticket
Global Search across all aspects of data like services, environments, applications, resources, persons, etc.
global search
Get answers to powerful questions across your entire catalog
explorer
- You can add new query, view existing queries, edit queries, deep link to your data.
View all your cross-account, cross-geo, cross-cloud resources in one place.
resources
- View Resources
- Filter Resources by cloud provider type, your cloud accounts, your resource types, etc
- Search by name or other details of your resource
- View details about each resource
- Deep link into your cloud provider dashboard directly
- Map resources to environments
Access your services, environment, application related features
catalog menu
- Services - View, create, edit, visualize services. A service can be a standard service associated with a repository, or a service that is associated to an external entity with no repository. You can also add plug-ins to the services, view CI/CD options, dependencies, environments, documentation, owners, etc to the services for a single glass pane view.
- Environments - View, edit, map, visualize environments to various cloud resources as well as services.
- Applications - Group your services into an application. You can create, edit, add services, visualize your applications as well as deep link into your service configurations.
View the stats on your organization as well deep link to the respective areas of your organization within the configure8 app.
dashboard stats
- Applications - Number of applications in your org
- Services - Number of services in your org
- Environments - Number of environments in your org
- Resources - Number of cloud resources in your org
- Credentials - Number of credentials in your org
- Users - Number of users in your org
Shortcuts to your frequently used features
shortcuts
- Connect a Cloud Provider - Shortcut to creating a cloud credential and associating your cloud account.
- Connect a Source Control Provider - Shortcut to creating a repository credential and associating your source control provider account.
- Map your First Service - Shortcut to creating a service and connecting all relevant information about your service.
- Associate Cloud Resources to Your Service - Shortcut to mapping your cloud resources to a service environment.
Last modified 9mo ago