Create an application
By the end of this page you will have an application ready for its first repository.
Prerequisites
- A project. Admin or Developer role.
One application is one system
An application is the container the graph is built in. The Studio states the idea in one line:
One application is one system — attach every repo that belongs to it, and the graph spans them.
Three services behind a gateway are one application with three sources, not three applications. That matters because cross-repo links only exist inside one application. Split them and you lose the one thing that makes a multi-service map worth having.
Create separate applications for systems that genuinely have nothing to do with each other.
Create it
Open Context Graph
Click Context Graph in the project sidebar. You land on the Applications list.
Click New application
A short form appears.
Name it
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Name | What this system is called — “Commerce platform”. |
| Description | Optional. One line, such as “Three services behind one gateway”. |
Click Create
The application appears in the list, with no sources and no version yet.
Reading the list
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Name | With the description underneath, if you set one |
| Sources | How many repositories are attached |
| Version | The latest graph version, or not ingested if none has been built |
| Updated | When it last changed |
Deleting an application
The delete action asks first, and says what goes with it: “This removes its graph versions and indexed chunks.” That is every version, not only the latest — the repositories themselves are untouched.
Common issues
- Create does nothing — The name is empty.
- Two applications that should be one — Delete one and attach its repositories to the other. Links across them only appear once they are in the same application.