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.
Move between features from the sidebar
The left sidebar lists the features you can open, grouped by purpose. A group appears only if you can open something in it, so your sidebar differs from a colleague’s.
| Group | Feature | What it opens |
|---|---|---|
| Data Science | Notebooks | Interactive notebooks powered by JupyterHub. |
| Data Engineering | Data Catalog | Browse Iceberg warehouses, tables and previews. |
| Data Engineering | Pipelines | Workflow orchestration powered by Airflow. |
| 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. |
Administration shows only to platform administrators. Data Catalog shows to everyone, since its contents are already filtered to what you may read.
The panel icon at top left collapses the sidebar to icons with hover tooltips; the wordmark returns you to the Overview.
Open a feature from the Overview
Overview is the home page: an Open button per feature you can open, the same set as the sidebar.
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 — Iceberg tables, 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.
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.