16. The Landing page

Chapter 5 introduced the home dashboard at a conceptual level. This chapter is the reference: every panel, every button, every column header on the home page, explained in order.

It’s a chapter you can skip on first read and come back to when you want to know what some specific element on the page does.

URL

https://ops.daalu.io/ — no path. Also reached by clicking the Daalu logo in the top-left of any page.

Top bar (every page)

The bar at the very top is shared by every page:

• Daalu logo (top-left). Click to return to the home page.
• Tenant name next to the logo. If you’re in multiple tenants, click to switch.
• Search input in the middle. A unified search across alerts, devices, change proposals, integrations, and event history. Hit / to focus from anywhere.
• Notifications bell. Personal notifications. Numeric badge if any are unread.
• Profile menu (top-right). Opens to Profile, Settings, Help & Feedback, Log out.

Left sidebar (every page)

Same on every page:

• Home
• Operations
• Agents
• Automations
• Reports
• Alerts
• Workflows
• Workspace
• AI Factory
• Topology
• Dashboards
• Managed infra
• Usage & Pricing
• — (separator)
• Settings
• Help & Feedback

Width is fixed; on phones the sidebar becomes a slide-in drawer behind the hamburger button. Devices and Proposals are tabs inside Operations; Integrations, Clusters, and Onboarding are tabs inside Managed infra — their old standalone URLs still resolve.

Main column on the Landing page

In order from top to bottom:

1. Status pill

A colored pill displaying one of:

• “All systems nominal” (green)
• “X alerts firing” (amber, where X = warning count)
• “Degraded — Y critical” (red, where Y = critical count)

Hover for a breakdown by severity. Click to jump to the Alerts page filtered to the relevant set.

2. Greeting

“Good morning, Jane.” (Or afternoon / evening based on your time zone.) Below the greeting, the current local time and a tiny weather indicator if you’ve enabled the personal-preferences weather widget. Otherwise just the date.

3. AI Assistant card

A condensed view of the Assistant panel for quick questions without opening the side panel. Includes:

• A single-line input — type a question, hit Enter, get a response inline.
• A “Open full Assistant” link that pops the side panel.
• A list of suggested prompts that change daily (“What’s been happening since yesterday?”, “Anything degraded right now?“).

4. AI briefing

The generated daily briefing, presented as:

• a headline summary line,
• metric chips — the day’s key figures as big numbers with small labels,
• and a grid of clickable section tiles (typically Last 24 hours, Active incidents, Recommended actions, Capacity & cost), each showing an icon and a one-line preview. Clicking a tile expands it in place to reveal the section’s full text.

Inputs include alerts that fired/resolved overnight, new cloud resources detected, open change proposals, spend anomalies, and agent-generated highlights.

Click “Regenerate” to rerun with fresh data, or View full briefing to open it as a page (past briefings live under Reports → Briefings).

5. Notifications

Personal notifications:

• Mentions in change-proposal threads.
• Alerts assigned to you.
• @-mentions from the Assistant.
• Direct messages from teammates.

Each row has a timestamp, source icon, and a “mark read” check. The bell badge in the top bar reflects this same feed.

6. System health

A single percentage value — “X% of integrations healthy” — with a sparkline showing the last 7 days. Click to land on Managed Infra filtered to “unhealthy first.”

7. Quick actions

Four large buttons:

• Open Assistant — expands the right panel.
• View alerts — jumps to Alerts.
• Approve proposals — jumps to Operations → Proposals filtered to “waiting for me.”
• Add integration — jumps to Managed Infra → Add.

8. Recent activity (footer)

A timeline of the last 20 significant events in your tenant. Each row includes the kind, source, and a one-line description. Click any row to drill into the source object.

Right panel — Assistant

Always docked to the right; default width is ~360 px. Drag the edge to widen. Components from top to bottom:

• Header — “AI Assistant” plus a status dot showing whether the underlying LLM is local or cloud.
• Conversation thread — your messages and the Assistant’s replies, scrollable. Tool calls show as expandable cards (“queried Prometheus: 4 results”); proposals show as inline cards with an “Open proposal” link.
• Input — multiline text input with Enter to send and Shift+Enter for newline. Markdown is rendered as you type.
• Footer — three controls:
  • Tool toggle (allow / disallow specific tools for this conversation).
  • Clear conversation.
  • Send feedback (to the Daalu team about an Assistant reply).

Keyboard shortcuts on this page

A few that work from the home page:

• / — focus the top-bar search.
• Cmd-K / Ctrl-K — open/close the Assistant panel.
• G then A — jump to Alerts.
• G then M — jump to Managed Infra.
• G then O — jump to Operations.
• G then S — jump to Settings.
• ? — show the full shortcuts cheat sheet.

The cheat sheet lists every shortcut available on the current page.

What you see when there’s nothing connected

On a brand-new tenant the page is mostly empty states:

• Pill: “All systems nominal.”
• Briefing: “Welcome to Daalu. There isn’t anything to report yet…”
• Notifications: empty.
• System health: “100% (0 of 0)” — vacuously true.
• Recent activity: empty.

The empty states are deliberately friendly with calls-to-action (“Connect a cloud”, “Invite a teammate”). Click through to get the first signal flowing.

What’s next

Chapter 17 covers the Managed Infra page — the inventory of everything Daalu watches for you, and the place you go to add or remove sources.