Flanksource Mission Control — Overview Skill Skill

Flanksource Mission Control — Overview Skill

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What Is Mission Control?

Flanksource Mission Control is an Internal Developer Platform that helps teams improve developer productivity and operational resilience.

With Mission Control you can:

Catalog and track changes on infrastructure, applications and configuration.
Empower Developers with self-service playbooks for Day 0-2 operations.
Run Health Checks across both cloud-native and legacy infrastructure and applications.
Incrementally Adopt GitOps with playbooks that perform Git commits in the background.
Aggregate Alerts from Prometheus, Cloudwatch, etc.
Build Event Driven Control Planes with a combination of webhooks, events and GitOps.
Notify People and Systems about changes in health and configuration.

Mission Control itself adds orchestration, automation, and a web UI on top of these engines via its own CRDs:

| CRD | Purpose | | --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Playbook | Multi-step runbook automation (exec, gitops, http, github, notification, SQL, logs, AI) | | Notification | Alert routing to Slack, email, Teams, webhooks, playbooks, and more | | NotificationSilence | Suppress notifications by resource selector, time window, and CEL filter | | Connection | Centralized credential & endpoint management (AWS, GCP, Azure, Git, Slack, SMTP, etc.) | | View | Custom dashboards with SQL/catalog/config queries, panels, and table layouts | | Application | Logical grouping of resources with environments, roles, and access reviews | | Scope | Resource-scoped access control boundaries | | Permission | Fine-grained access control (RBAC + ABAC) | | Team | User groups for access control and notification routing |

Mission Control Registry

The mission-control-registry provides ready-made Helm charts for common integrations:

| Chart | What it sets up | | ---------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | mission-control | Core Mission Control deployment (PostgreSQL, Redis) | | kubernetes | Kubernetes cluster scraping | | kubernetes-view | Pre-built Kubernetes dashboard views | | aws | AWS resource scraping | | azure | Azure resource scraping | | gcp | Google Cloud resource scraping | | flux | Flux GitOps integration | | argocd | ArgoCD integration | | prometheus | Prometheus integration | | playbooks-kubernetes | Kubernetes automation playbooks (scale, restart, drain, logs, delete, etc.) | | misc-playbooks | Miscellaneous Playbooks | | playbooks-flux | Flux GitOps playbooks (reconcile, suspend/resume) | | playbooks-ai | AI-powered troubleshooting playbooks | | mongo-atlas | MongoDB Atlas monitoring | | postgres | PostgreSQL monitoring | | mssql | SQL Server monitoring | | helm | Helm release monitoring |

Use these registry charts to understand and enable integrations in an existing Mission Control setup.

Core Features

1. Catalog (config-db)

A JSON-based CMDB that scrapes and tracks configuration from multiple sources.

Scraper types (high level): Kubernetes, Kubernetes File, AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, Azure DevOps, HTTP, File, Exec, SQL (Postgres/MSSQL/ClickHouse), Logs, PubSub, Slack, Trivy, Terraform

Key capabilities:

Full config JSON stored and searchable
Change tracking with JSON patches and diff
Health status derivation from config state
Parent/child relationships and dependency graphs
Cost tracking per resource
Insights ingestion (security, cost, reliability, compliance)
Access log/audit ingestion for external users
Labels and tags for filtering

CRDs: ScrapeConfig, ScrapePlugin (configs.flanksource.com/v1)

ScrapePlugin capabilities:

Global change exclusion and change-type mapping
Global retention policies for config items and changes
Relationship and property enrichment shared across scrapers

2. Health Checks (canary-checker)

Kubernetes-native health monitoring with 35+ built-in check types.

Check categories:

Protocol: HTTP, DNS, ICMP, TCP
Data sources: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, LDAP, Prometheus
Alerts: Prometheus AlertManager, AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace
Integration testing: JUnit, JMeter, K6, Newman, Playwright
File systems: Local, S3, GCS, SFTP, SMB
Infrastructure: EC2, Kubernetes Pod/Ingress, S3 protocol
Config: AWS Config, AWS Config Rule, Catalog query, Kubernetes resources
Backups: GCP databases, Restic

Key capabilities:

Scriptable with CEL, JavaScript, Go templates
Transform responses into multiple sub-checks (fan-out)
Custom Prometheus metrics export
JUnit import/export for CI/CD
Secret management via K8s secrets

CRD: Canary (canaries.flanksource.com/v1)

3. Playbooks

Multi-step automation runbooks triggered manually, on events, on webhooks, or on schedule.

Action types:

exec — run shell commands (on agent or in pods)
http — make HTTP requests
sql — execute SQL queries
gitops — create commits, branches, PRs (GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps)
github — trigger GitHub Actions workflows
azureDevopsPipeline — trigger Azure DevOps pipelines
notification — send notifications
pod — create and manage pods
logs — query logs (Loki, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Kubernetes)
ai — invoke LLM analysis

Key capabilities:

Parameters with types (text, checkbox, code, config, people, team, duration, list, etc.)
Approval workflows
Event-driven triggers (config changes, health failures, etc.)
Webhook triggers
Resource selectors to scope which configs/checks can trigger
Step chaining with templated context

CRD: Playbook (mission-control.flanksource.com/v1)

4. Notifications

Event-driven alerting with templated messages.

Recipients: email, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, ntfy, Pushover, Pushbullet, webhooks, playbooks

Key capabilities:

Event filtering (config changes, health check failures, etc.)
CEL-based filters for fine-grained control
Go template-based title/body
Repeat intervals and grouping
Fallback recipients with delay
Rate limiting

CRD: Notification (mission-control.flanksource.com/v1)

5. Notification Silences

Suppress notifications by resource, time window, or condition.

Key capabilities:

Resource selectors (by type, name, labels, tags)
Time windows (from/until)
Recursive silencing (parent + children)
CEL filter expressions

CRD: NotificationSilence (mission-control.flanksource.com/v1)

6. Connections

Centralized credential and endpoint management.

Supported types: AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Git, GitHub, GitLab, HTTP, Slack, SMTP, Telegram, Discord, ntfy, Pushover, Pushbullet, SFTP, SMB, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, Azure DevOps

CRD: Connection (mission-control.flanksource.com/v1)

7. Views

Custom dashboards with SQL, catalog, and config-based queries.

Key capabilities:

Multi-query data aggregation with merge/join
Column definitions with types
Panel-based visualizations (cards, tables)
Template variables for dynamic filtering
Section composition (embed other views)
Plugin system to attach views as tabs on config pages
Caching with configurable max/min age

CRD: View (mission-control.flanksource.com/v1)

8. Access Control

Fine-grained access control with scopes and teams.

CRDs: Permission, PermissionGroup, Scope, Team

Quick-Start Actions

Common first actions in Mission Control:

Create a Canary health check
Create a ScrapeConfig to ingest infrastructure configs
Add a ScrapePlugin for global change filtering/mapping/retention
Create Notification routing for key events
Create NotificationSilence windows for maintenance
Create Playbooks for self-service automation
Create Connections for credentials and endpoints
Create Views for Grafana like dashboards
Explore integration bundles from the mission-control-registry

References:

references/schemas.md — OpenAPI schemas for all CRDs across canary-checker, config-db, and mission-control

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