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Console Tour
Navigate the Console: Home, Operate, Quality, Automation, Governance, and Platform.
Overview
The Zof Console organizes reliability operations into six primary navigation sections aligned with how enterprise teams work day to day. This tour maps each section to documentation chapters and typical personas.
After sign-in, you land on Console Home, a persona-aware operational view. The left navigation persists across all areas; the command palette (⌘K / Ctrl+K) provides fast jumps when you know the destination name.
Who should read this
- QA engineers, SREs, platform teams, and developers operating Zof Console and APIs.
When to use this workflow
- Onboarding new team members to Zof terminology and workflows
- Authoring internal runbooks aligned with Console labels
- Designing CI/CD or webhook integrations against documented behavior
Console navigation map
Console navigation map
Primary sections in left navigation (IA v4)
Step-by-step procedure
Explore Console Home
Sign in and review persona-specific cards on Home.
Note reliability summary metrics and recent activity feeds.
Use quick actions to jump to Runs, Reports, or project creation.
Open the command palette
Press ⌘K (macOS) or Ctrl+K (Windows/Linux).
Type a destination such as "Test Health" or "Agent Console".
Select the result to navigate without using the mouse.
Walk each navigation section
Expand Operate and open Runs to see execution history.
Open Quality → Coverage to preview traceability views.
Visit Automation → AI Agents to browse the catalog available to your organization.
Review Settings and Admin
Footer → Settings for profile, notifications, and security preferences.
Platform → Admin for directory, API keys, and audit if you have admin access.
Key concepts
- Home
- Persona-composed landing: metrics, trends, quick actions. Executives see posture; QA sees coverage and health; SREs see execution and dependencies.
- Operate
- Runs, Schedules, Reports, day-to-day execution and stakeholder communication.
- Quality
- Test Health, Coverage, Scores, Tests library, Specifications, inventory and analysis.
- Automation
- Zof Studio, AI Agents, Agent Console, authoring and execution fleet.
- Governance
- Releases, Risk, Compliance, Security, Remediation, policy and ship decisions.
- Platform
- Topology, Integrations, Applications, Admin, configuration and administration.
Best practices
- Validate changes in staging before applying release gates to production.
- Include run IDs and timestamps when escalating issues to support or auditors.
- Align internal runbook terminology with Zof Console UI labels for clarity.
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