Tour of the portal
Find your way around the portal sidebar, launcher, and search.
The portal at https://<your-databaas-domain> is where you open every other feature.
The Overview
Overview is the home page: a card with an Open button per feature you can open. A feature appears only if you have permission for it, so your Overview can differ from a colleague’s.
The sidebar
The left sidebar lists the same features as the Overview, grouped by purpose. A group appears only if you have permission for at least one of the features in it.
| Group | Feature | What it opens |
|---|---|---|
| Data Engineering | Data Catalog | Browse Iceberg warehouses, tables and previews. |
| Data Engineering | Pipelines | Workflow orchestration powered by Airflow. |
| Data Science | Notebooks | Interactive notebooks powered by JupyterHub. |
| Business Intelligence | Dashboards | Analytics and visualisation powered by Superset. |
| Administration | Access control | The portal screens for granting feature permissions and roles. |
| Administration | Identity | Single sign-on powered by Zitadel: the user directory. |
| Administration | Catalog Admin | Manage Iceberg warehouses and permissions in Lakekeeper’s own interface. |
Data Catalog shows to everyone, since its contents are already filtered to what you may read. Administration shows only to platform administrators.
The panel icon at top left collapses the sidebar to icons with hover tooltips; the wordmark returns you to the Overview.
Work with a feature inside the portal
Each feature opens inside the portal and keeps its own interface — Notebooks is Jupyter, Pipelines is Airflow, Dashboards is Superset — and your single sign-on carries over, so you are never asked to log in again.
The Pipelines entry opens the Airflow web interface: list pipelines, inspect runs, read task logs, and trigger a run with the right permission. See monitoring and running pipelines.
Search with ⌘K
The top-bar search opens with a click or ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux). It searches two
things:
- Data Catalog — tables (Iceberg and generic), matched on table name or namespace, and only ones you may see. Selecting a result opens that table in the Data Catalog.
- Users — people in your directory, matched on login name, display name or email. Informational only; selecting one navigates nowhere.
Type at least two characters. The All, Catalog and Users tabs narrow results and show each tab’s match count. Dashboards are not searched; find them in Superset.
To search inside the catalog instead — filtering the warehouse tree — use the search field at the top of the Data Catalog’s own sidebar. See browsing the catalog.
Sign out from the user menu
The circle with your initials at the right of the top bar holds Sign out and the name and email Databaas knows you by, both from your single sign-on account. Check them on your first visit: that is the identity every feature sees, and your notebook Git commits are attributed to that name and address.