Browse the catalog
The catalog lists everything your company builds and runs: components, APIs, systems, teams. You open it, pick a kind of thing, and open its page.
Open the catalog
- In the left sidebar, click Catalog.
The page opens on the Components tab: one row per component, with its Name, System, Owner, Type, Lifecycle and Description.
Switch to another kind of thing
- Above the list, click another tab.
| Tab | What it lists |
|---|---|
| APIs | The interfaces your components offer or use |
| Components | Services, websites, libraries |
| Domains | Business areas that group systems |
| Groups | Teams |
| Resources | Databases, queues, caches |
| Systems | Components that work together as one product |
| Templates | The templates of The Foundry |
| Users | The people of your Astrolabe |
Open the page of a component
- In the Name column, click the name of a component, for example
order-service.
The page opens on its Overview tab. The About card shows its Description, Owner, System, Type, Lifecycle and Tags. Click the owner or the system to open their pages.
The other tabs of the page:
| Tab | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Overview | The About card and the cards your administrator turned on |
| Api | The APIs the component provides, in Provided APIs |
| Dependencies | A graph of the components, resources and teams it is linked to, and the Depends on components list |
| Docs | The documentation of the component: see Read the documentation of a component |
Back to the list
In the title of the page, click Catalog to come back to the list you left.
✅ That's it!
Next: Filter the catalog.