Glossary
Plain-English definitions for the terms used across the Obelisk documentation
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A
- Account: Your personal identity in Obelisk, including profile, session, and preferences.
- Active Organization: The organization currently selected in session state. Most tenant workflows depend on it.
- Admin Console: The platform-wide surface for governing users, organizations, notifications, configuration, and alerts.
- API Key: A scoped machine credential used to access supported public automation endpoints.
- Audit Log: A historical record of important operational actions and system events.
B
- Billing: The subscription, invoice, payment method, credit, and auto top-up workflows for an organization.
C
- Channel Lab: The organization workspace used to provision and operate managed Dubhe channel deployments.
- Contract Lab: The organization workspace used to create contract projects, manage revisions, validate changes, and deploy.
- Credits: Usage-backed value available to an organization for supported product workflows, including AI-assisted features.
D
- Deployment: A persisted runtime record representing a provisioned or queued runtime workload.
- Dubhe: The runtime ecosystem surfaced through Contract Lab and Channel Lab inside Obelisk.
I
- Indexer Lab: The organization workspace used to provision and control managed indexer deployments.
- Integrations: The organization page that summarizes automation surfaces such as API access, webhooks, notifications, and runtime entry points.
N
- Notifications: In-app messages delivered to organization members or platform admins, depending on context.
O
- Organization: The tenant boundary in Obelisk. Most operational, billing, and automation workflows are scoped here.
- Organization Role: Tenant-local permission level such as
owner,admin, ormember.
P
- Platform Alert: A platform-level health, delivery, or incident signal meant for admin review and acknowledgement.
- Platform Role: Global permission level such as
useroradmin. - Public Deployment API: The authenticated HTTP endpoints exposed for supported deployment workflows.
R
- Revision: An immutable saved version of a contract project that can be reviewed, validated, and deployed.
- Runtime Surface: A product area that controls live or queued infrastructure workflows, such as Contract Lab, Indexer Lab, or Channel Lab.
S
- Session: The authenticated browser state that identifies the current user and active context.
- Support: The organization-facing surface for requesting help, finding docs, and escalating issues.
T
- Tenant Isolation: The principle that one organization's data and workflows are separated from another's through access control and scoping.
W
- Webhook: An outbound HTTP delivery configured by an organization to receive product events.
- Workspace: A scoped area of the product used for a specific context, usually personal, organization, or admin work.