Using the Control Plane

Using the Control Plane

The Control Plane is the admin console where you configure every aspect of how Nexus governs AI traffic, and where you watch traffic and fleet health. Each area below has a dedicated feature guide; this page is the map.

Overview and analytics

• Overview section — the at-a-glance landing surface: dashboard, traffic, analytics and metrics, quota usage, and cache ROI.

Configure AI traffic

• Routing and connectivity — providers and models, credentials, routing rules, and virtual keys.
• Cost and cache — quota policies and overrides, the response cache, and emergency passthrough.

Compliance

• Hooks and policies — the hooks, rule packs, and exemptions that inspect, transform, or block content.
• Interception and inspection — interception domains, the AI Guard backend, streaming compliance, and payload capture.
• Records and reporting — operation logs, data-subject requests, and the compliance report.

Identity and access

• IAM — organizations, projects, users, roles, policies, the policy simulator, and identity providers.

Fleet and devices

• Devices — the enrolled Agent fleet: devices, device groups, device auth, and device defaults.

Observability and operations

• Alerts — the alert inbox, detection rules, and notification channels.
• Infrastructure: nodes — nodes, config sync, per-node overrides, and scheduled jobs.
• Infrastructure: observability — observability configuration, data retention, SIEM forwarding, and the audit dead-letter queue.
• Infrastructure: operations — the kill switch, recent errors and crash reports, Agent diagnostics, proxy rollout, and Agent setup.

System tools

• System — the AI Gateway simulator, a Control Plane status and health view, and the first-run setup wizard.

See also

• Core Concepts — the objects these pages configure.
• Using the Agent — the Desktop Agent's own dashboard.
• Architecture Overview — where the Control Plane sits.