Built-in tools¶

Seven tools ship inside the workbench, so the routine work that usually sends you to another application happens in the session you are already in. None of them installs anything on the target host.

Tool	What it does
Port Forward	Local and remote SSH tunnels, managed from the UI
File Manager	Browse, upload and download over SFTP/FTP without leaving the session
Snippets	Save and re-run command templates
System Monitor	Live resource figures for the connected host
Insights	A summary of the current run — open sessions, counters, latest monitor sample
Themes	Terminal and UI theming, including the OpsPilot palette
Search	Search within terminal scrollback

Port Forward¶

The Port Forwarding panel creates and manages SSH tunnels on the active session, with no ssh -L invocation to remember. Pick a direction, fill in the ports, and click Add Tunnel:

A local forward listens on 127.0.0.1:<local port> on your workstation and tunnels connections to <remote host>:<remote port> as resolved by the SSH server. The remote host is a real hostname or address from the server's point of view — not localhost, which would mean the server connecting to itself.
A remote forward asks the SSH server to listen on 0.0.0.0:<remote port> and forward incoming connections back to localhost:<local port> on your workstation.

The panel's Active Tunnels list shows each tunnel's direction, both endpoints, which session owns it, its status and how many connections it is currently carrying, with a button to remove it. Tunnels belong to a session, so the list is a view across every session you have open.

File Manager¶

A two-pane transfer window: your local filesystem on the left, the filesystem of a chosen open session on the right. Drag files between the panes to upload or download, and use the host picker above the remote pane to retarget it at a different session. SSH, FTP and S3 sessions all qualify, and the remote pane works identically for each.

The History drawer records completed uploads and downloads for 15 days, from anywhere in the application rather than just this window, and it survives restarts. You can filter it by host, by direction and by free-text search. Files and transfers covers this in more detail.

Snippets¶

Command Snippets are saved command templates: a name, optional tags, an optional one-line description and the command itself. Search by name, tag or command text, or filter by tag from the dropdown. Two dozen snippets ship as a starting point, covering system inspection, networking, logs, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, Ceph and a handful of security checks. Several contain deliberate <placeholder> text you are expected to edit before running.

Insert into terminal types the snippet into the active session and leaves it at the prompt. It does not press Enter for you — you read it and run it, the same way a proposal from the assistant works.

Snippets are stored locally on the workstation, in the application's own storage, and are not scoped to a connection or a group.

System Monitor¶

The monitor polls the connected host every four seconds over a separate exec channel — it does not type into your terminal — and shows the result in a bar above the workspace, with a pause button and a close button. Reopening it is a single click in the status bar.

What it collects per poll:

CPU utilisation, as a total and per core
Memory: used, total, available, cached and buffers
Disk size and usage for every mounted filesystem, with paging when there are many
Network throughput in and out, plus a cumulative total since the session opened
Host uptime, the logged-in user count, the hostname, and the OS name from /etc/os-release

It keeps about five minutes of CPU and memory history for the sparklines. The figures come from /proc/stat, /proc/meminfo, /proc/net/dev, /proc/uptime, df, who and hostname, so the monitor expects a Linux-shaped host; on anything else the fields it cannot read stay empty.

Insights¶

The Insights panel is a summary of the current run of the application rather than a historical report. It shows:

Cards for active sessions, commands sent, files edited and application uptime.
Active Sessions — every open session with its user and host, port, environment tag, connected state and how long it has been up.
System Resources — bars built from the most recent System Monitor sample, labelled with the host it came from, shown only when the monitor has data.

The counters reset when you restart OpsPilot. Nothing here is uploaded anywhere; there is no telemetry behind it.

Themes¶

Theming is covered in The terminal. One palette ships — the NubeStack OpsPilot Infra Theme — and it drives the application chrome, the terminal's ANSI colours, the editor theme and the colourisation of otherwise-plain SSH output from a single definition.

Search¶

Ctrl+F with the terminal focused opens the find bar for the session's scrollback, with case-sensitive, whole-word and regular-expression toggles. See Search within scrollback.

Local utilities¶

Beyond the seven above, a Tools panel collects small local utilities that would otherwise send you to a website: a password generator with an entropy estimate, a Base64/URL/hex encoder and decoder, a JSON formatter with minify and sort-keys, an SSH exec box that runs a command on the active session through a separate channel without touching the interactive terminal, and a ping that runs from the connected server rather than from your workstation.

The password generator uses the platform's cryptographic random source. The encoder and the JSON formatter run entirely in the application and send nothing anywhere.