The console
The console is the platform's interface. The sidebar is organised by activity: working, data, automation and platform.
On this page
What you see depends on your rights. The admin area is open to platform administrators only, and elsewhere every view shows just what your identity may see in Trino.
Menu items are German
The console ships in German. Items are named as they appear on screen, with an English rendering in parentheses.
Above the groups sit two entries of their own: “Neu” (new) creates things — a dashboard, a report, a query or a pipeline — and “Suche” (search) looks across the whole platform.
Arbeiten (working)
| Page | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Start | The cockpit: platform state and entry points into the most frequent tasks. |
| Dashboards | Tiles on a grid, with an edit mode, a filter bar and more than a dozen visualisations. Every tile computes under the viewer's own identity. |
| Berichte (reports) | Send dashboards and SQL queries as scheduled snapshots. Administrators configure the delivery route under Admin. |
| SQL-Editor | The worksheet over Trino, with syntax highlighting and suggestions from your own catalog. |
Daten (data)
| Page | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Tabellen (tables) | The data pools. Tabs: overview, search, queries, documents and working copies. |
| Datenprodukte (data products) | Curated, owner-led datasets somebody deliberately published — the only page that spans across data pools. |
| Ingestion | The guided path from source to schedule. Tabs: add data, connections and import history. |
“Datentopf” instead of catalog and schema
Since 0.63.0 the navigation is organised around the data pool: what is technically a catalog and a schema appears as one named area holding tables, search and queries together.
Automatisieren (automation)
| Page | Purpose |
|---|---|
| lavaflow | The visual ETL builder: source, steps and target as nodes, with a draft and a published version. |
| Jobs | Schedules: analyses, imports and maintenance that run by themselves. Schedules can be chained — the next starts after the previous one succeeds. |
Plattform (platform)
Two collection pages with tabs. Every tab has an address of its own and can be linked to; older addresses redirect.
KI & ML (AI)
| Tab | Purpose |
|---|---|
| KI-Anbindung (AI backend) | The language model behind the chat: Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI or a self-hosted model. |
| Embeddings | The embedding index and its provider. The local model, keyless, by default. |
| MCP-Server | Register third-party MCP servers — and enable the tools lavalake itself offers outward. |
| KI-Systeme (AI systems) | Long-lived, revocable access tokens per connected AI system, each with its own slice of the data. |
Admin
| Tab | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Überwachung, Auslastung (monitoring, load) | Service health, traffic lights, a time series of queries, and consumption per user and purpose. |
| Arbeitslasten, Warehouses (workloads) | Workload classes and virtual warehouses with their own quota and auto-suspend. |
| Analytik (analytics) | Queries, data volume, compute time, AI cost and licence state on one board. |
| Audit-Log, Herkunft (lineage) | The hash chain of accesses, and per table where its data came from and who touched it. |
| Nutzer & Rollen, Richtlinien, Freigabe-Regeln | Accounts and role hierarchy, row and column policies with their effectiveness readout, and which actions the assistant may take without asking. |
| BI-Anbindung (BI connectivity) | The read-only feed for Tableau and Power BI, plus JDBC and ODBC access to Trino. Off as shipped. |
The chat
Next to the navigation sits the chat panel. Conversations persist and can be found again through a list; the assistant names a new one itself. Images can be pasted with Cmd+V, and writing while a step runs queues the message. What it may do and how it is controlled is covered under The AI assistant.
Applies to: This page describes lavalake 0.78.0. Product and documentation live in separate repositories — when in doubt, what the console shows is authoritative.
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