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Version: 1.7.0

DVARA Flightdeck Overview

Works without a license

The DVARA Console is the same in both postures. Every page works without a license — Dashboard, Workspaces, Users, Credentials, Routes, Policies, Cost, Audit, Compliance, Prompts and the rest. The MCP and A2A pages are the exception: those planes activate only with a license, so their surfaces have nothing to show without one. There is no lock badge and no upgrade page — the upgrade wall was removed in 1.7.0 along with Community Edition.

The DVARA Flightdeck is the control plane for your DVARA AI governance platform. A single DVARA Flightdeck process serves two audiences:

  1. The platform dashboard — a web console for platform engineers, security admins, compliance officers, and finance teams managing policies, workspaces, budgets, and the audit trail.
  2. The workspace self-service portal — a scoped UI for workspace users to manage their own API keys, BYOK credentials, usage, and team membership.

Both read and write the same DVARA control plane store. The DVARA Flightdeck is the only component that writes governance configuration — the LLM Gateway and the MCP Gateway read from it.

DVARA Flightdeck — the home page after loginDVARA Flightdeck — the home page after login
Figure 1. DVARA Flightdeck — the home page after login

DVARA Flightdeck uses a slim top bar over a vertical left sidebar. The top bar carries the brand, a Cmd+K command-palette trigger, and the user-menu dropdown; everything else lives in the sidebar, grouped into six sections plus a top-level Dashboard. Role-aware visibility hides items the caller can't reach — Cache is owner-only; Users, Latency, and Schemas need owner or policy-admin.

Top bar
├── Brand (DVARA logo + "DVARA Flightdeck" + version badge)
├── Cmd+K command palette  — ⌘K / Ctrl+K to open from anywhere
└── User menu (dropdown)
    ├── Connection status        — green dot = LLM Gateway reachable, red = disconnected
    ├── Theme toggle             — day / night mode, persisted per user
    ├── My Access Tokens         (/settings/tokens) — personal access tokens for scripting against the Flightdeck
    ├── License                  (/license) — license status + renewal
    ├── Import / Export          (/config) — GitOps snapshot + replay (owner only)
    └── Sign out

Sidebar
├── Dashboard               (/)              — live metrics, provider health, latency, cache
│
├── Identity
│   ├── Workspaces             (/workspaces)       — workspace + API key management
│   ├── Users               (/users)         — user + role management (owner + policy-admin)
│   └── Credentials         (/credentials)   — provider credential management
│
├── Routing
│   ├── Routes              (/routes)        — routing rules + version history + canary
│   ├── Cache               (/cache)         — semantic cache stats + configs (owner only)
│   ├── Latency             (/latency)       — EWMA latency dashboard (owner + policy-admin)
│   └── Schemas             (/schemas)       — output schema registry (owner + policy-admin)
│
├── Governance
│   ├── Policies            (/policies)      — policy DSL editor + shadow testing
│   ├── Audit               (/audit)         — live audit event stream
│   └── Webhooks            (/webhooks)      — webhook delivery management
│
├── Cost                                     [ENT]
│   ├── Cost Dashboard      (/costs)         — cost records + charts + forecasts
│   ├── Token Usage         (/token-usage)   — per-workspace token telemetry
│   ├── Model Pricing       (/pricing)       — per-model pricing config
│   ├── Budget Caps         (/budgets)       — spending limits + alerts
│   ├── Chargeback Reports  (/chargeback)    — chargeback reports (PDF / CSV)
│   └── Compliance Reports  (/compliance)    — SOC2 / HIPAA / GDPR reports
│
├── Prompts                                  [ENT]
│   ├── Templates           (/prompts)       — prompt template management
│   ├── Experiments         (/prompts/experiments) — A/B prompt experiments
│   ├── Golden Prompts      (/golden-prompts) — golden prompt fingerprinting
│   ├── Eval Prompts        (/eval/prompts)  — eval prompt management
│   └── Eval Reports        (/eval/reports)  — eval report viewer
│
├── Agents
│   ├── MCP Servers         (/mcp/servers)   — MCP server registry
│   ├── Tool Calls          (/mcp/tool-calls) — tool call history
│   ├── Sessions            (/mcp/sessions)  — agent session management
│   ├── Approval Queue      (/approvals)     — human-in-the-loop approvals (red badge shows pending count)
│   └── Analytics           (/analytics)     — agent behavior analytics
│
└── Playground              (/playground)    — interactive prompt and model testing (top-level item, hidden when dvara.flightdeck.playground.enabled=false)

Sidebar responsiveness. At ≥ 1400 px the sidebar stays expanded. Between 992 and 1399 px it collapses to a 56 px icon-only rail that expands on hover or focus. Below 992 px it slides in from the left as a hamburger-toggled drawer.

Items marked [ENT] group the advanced governance sections — Cost, Prompts, and the agent-governance surfaces — so you can find them at a glance. They are not gated: every one of them works without a license. Only the MCP and A2A pages depend on a license, because those planes do not activate without one.

Cmd+K command palette. Press ⌘K or Ctrl+K (or click the search pill in the top bar) to jump to any destination by substring match against label or section. Keyboard: ↑ / ↓ to navigate, Enter to open, Esc to close. The palette honors the same role gates as the sidebar — operators can't tab to pages they can't reach.

Connection status. The user-menu shows a green dot when the LLM Gateway is reachable and a red dot when it's unreachable; the avatar in the top bar gets a pulsing red indicator when disconnected so you don't need to open the menu to notice. DVARA Flightdeck operates independently of the data plane — admin operations keep working even if the LLM Gateway is down, and the indicator tells you which surface is misbehaving.

Approval Queue badge. The Approval Queue entry under Agents carries a red badge showing the current pending-approval count, refreshed in the background — operators know a tool call is waiting on a human without opening the page.

The Mock Scenario Editor (/mock-scenarios) is reachable by direct URL only, behind a triple opt-in (mock.enabled + scenarios-dir + console-authoring=true). It stays off the sidebar by design — bundling Groovy means scripted scenarios can execute arbitrary code inside the gateway JVM, so the extra gate is deliberate defense in depth. See Mock Scenario Editor.

How the DVARA Flightdeck fits in​

The DVARA Flightdeck is a single process listening on port 8090 that hosts the Console and the workspace Portal. Both surfaces read and write the same underlying data store, so a change made in DVARA Flightdeck is immediately visible to any script calling the REST API, and vice versa.

The dashboard panels refresh every few seconds by polling the DVARA Flightdeck, which in turn pulls live metrics from the LLM Gateway's Prometheus endpoint. Every other page in DVARA Flightdeck reads and writes configuration directly against the DVARA control plane store — not through the LLM Gateway — which is why admin operations keep working even during a data-plane outage.

Configuration is edited in the Console and the Portal, and version-controlled through the Console's GitOps export/import — a single JSON document covering workspaces and API keys, routes, policies, pricing, budgets, webhooks, MCP servers, schemas and prompt templates. The Admin API that used to expose the same resources over REST was removed in 1.7.0.

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