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Dataface Cloud

This section covers Dataface Cloud, the hosted product — not the open source dft engine documented everywhere else on this site. Cloud is the optional hosted layer on top of open source Dataface: it connects to the git repository holding your dashboards, and adds the things a team needs beyond a single local dft serve process — who can see and edit which dashboards, and how often their data refreshes.

Everything else — the YAML language, boards, charts, queries, and variables — is unchanged. A dashboard authored for Cloud is the same face YAML you'd write and preview locally.

What Cloud adds

  • Getting started — connect your git repository and warehouse, and create your first project.
  • Data connections — org-level warehouse credentials mapped onto the source names your YAML uses.
  • Access control — who can view, edit, or refresh a dashboard, decided by where it lives in your project.
  • Refresh — scheduling a dashboard's data to stay current without a viewer triggering the query.

Branch previews

Because Cloud reads dashboards from git, it can render any branch of your project: add a branch query parameter to a dashboard URL to preview that branch's YAML. Outbound board links inherit the current branch automatically (unless a link specifies its own branch), so navigating between dashboards stays inside the preview.

  • Dataface Overview — the open source engine and the YAML language it compiles
  • Boards — the dashboards Cloud governs