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Console layout & navigation

Two views matter: the organization landing page (at /, what you see when you first sign in) and the project view (inside a project, where you operate resources). Everything else hangs off these two.

Top bar (everywhere)

Top bar anatomy The top bar is sticky on every page. Anchor your bearings here when you get lost.

Left to right:

Element Behaviour
Cloud Digit logo Clicks to the organization landing. Always returns you to the org-picker context.
Project switcher (inside a project) Dropdown showing other projects in the current organization. Switching reloads the sidebar but stays in the equivalent section (e.g. from arctic/Servers to polar/Servers).
Refresh button Force-reloads data for the current page (resource lists, cost charts, etc.). Use it when you've just provisioned something from the CLI and want it to show up immediately.
Global search Searches across resource names, IDs, and tags in the current project. Use / from anywhere to focus the search box.
Theme toggle (sun/moon) Switches between light and dark mode. Preference is stored in browser local storage.
User menu Avatar + email + chevron. Opens the user menu — see below.

User menu

User menu open The user menu, opened from the top-right.

Five entries:

  • Signed in as <your-email> — confirms the active identity. If this doesn't match the account you expected to be on, Logout and sign back in.
  • Create — opens the Create flow for new organizations / projects (subject to your role).
  • Organizations (with a chevron) — expands to a list of every organization you belong to. The current one is highlighted. Click another to switch.
  • Account — opens your personal account settings (profile, MFA, password, API tokens). Distinct from per-project settings.
  • Logout — ends the session and returns you to the sign-in page.

Organization landing (/)

This is the page you see immediately after signing in (unless you came in via a deep link to a specific resource).

Organization landing Organization landing. One card per organization, each containing its project tiles.

Each organization card shows:

  • Org name (large, top-left of the card)
  • Your role in that org (badge — OWNER, ADMIN, MEMBER, READ-ONLY)
  • Project tiles — one per project. Each tile shows project name, resource count, and last-modified date.
  • Settings cog (top-right of the card) — org-level settings: members, default region, billing identity, integrations.

Click a project tile to enter that project's Console.

Project sidebar

Once inside a project, the left sidebar replaces the org-picker layout. It's grouped into three sections.

Project sidebar The project sidebar. Counts on the right of each item show the number of objects of that type in the current project.

GENERAL

Item Goes to
Dashboard Project-level overview: KPIs, cost breakdown, balance, recent activity

CLOUD

Item What it manages Page
Servers Virtual Machines (per-component guide, coming next)
Volumes Block storage (NVMe / Provisioned IOPS) (coming next)
Images Custom images, snapshots (coming next)
Networking VPC, subnets, security groups, public IP, LB, DNS, VPN (coming next)
Kubernetes Managed Kubernetes clusters (coming next)
Object Storage S3-compatible buckets (coming next)
Orchestration Heat templates, autoscaling, stacks (coming next)
Key Manager TLS certificates, secrets, KMS keys (coming next)
Access Project-level IAM — members, roles, API tokens (coming next)

ACCOUNT

Item What it manages
Financial Invoices, BDT balance, top-up, transaction history, payment methods
Settings Project-level configuration: name, default region, tags, deletion

Sidebar counts can lag

The number next to Kubernetes (2) or Orchestration (3) is cached and may be a few seconds stale after provisioning. Use the top-bar Refresh button to force a refetch.

Project Dashboard

Project Dashboard Project Dashboard. KPI strip across the top, cost breakdown in the middle, balance + recent transactions on the right.

The Dashboard surfaces:

  • Current Month — BDT consumed so far this month, with the percentage of forecast
  • Forecasted month end — projection based on current burn rate
  • Last Month — final BDT for the prior calendar month
  • Current Month Breakdown — donut chart, costs by service category
  • Costs Breakdown Comparison — horizontal bar chart, current month vs forecast per category
  • Balance — credits + unpaid, with an "Add funds" button
  • Last Transactions — top-up and adjustment history
  • Top Cost Generators — table of the highest-spend resources, with current and forecasted cost

Cost data on the Dashboard updates roughly hourly. For finer-grained analysis, the Financial page (covered in the upcoming Operational basics section) gives you full transaction history and tag-grouped spend.

Help bubble (Chatwoot)

The floating circle at the bottom-right of every project page is the Cloud Digit Live Chat widget. Click to open a chat with the support team during business hours (Asia/Dhaka), or to file an out-of-hours ticket that gets a response within the SLA for your support tier.

For full support-tier details see Getting Started → Support tiers.

Theme

The sun/moon icon in the top bar toggles light/dark mode. Your preference is stored per-browser. The Cloud Digit Console is designed to be readable in both — the dark theme is particularly useful for long sessions and NOC use.

Dark-mode console The Console in dark mode. All cost data and charts re-render with appropriate contrast.

Multi-organization users

Some accounts (typically partners, MSPs, and Cloud Digit staff) belong to multiple organizations. For those:

  • The landing page shows all your orgs at once, each with its own card.
  • The User menu → Organizations submenu lets you jump between them from anywhere.
  • The role badge is per-org — you might be OWNER of one and MEMBER of another.

There's no concept of "global" identity beyond your authentication — each org has its own users, projects, billing, and IAM.