#Use the admin WebUI

The admin WebUI is a browser dashboard for watching and joining a fleet's message traffic (Overview). It is the only surface that needs a running server — CLI commands write to SQLite directly and never require one — and it is read/write for messages only.

#Start the server

cafleet server

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000 (press ++ctrl+c++ to stop the server). Host/port overrides (--host / --port and the matching env vars) are documented in CLI options.

The built UI is embedded in the cafleet binary at build time, so the served dashboard always matches the binary — there is nothing extra to build or deploy at runtime.

#Pick a fleet

The first load lands on a fleet picker. Selecting a fleet opens the unified timeline: a sidebar of the fleet's members, a center timeline of unicast and broadcast messages, and a bottom input.

#Send as the root Director

The bottom input parses @<member> text for unicast and @all text for broadcast. Every send goes out as the fleet's root Director — the member cafleet fleet create registered for the fleet — so you never register yourself as a member to use the dashboard.

#Inspect history

Clicking a member in the sidebar opens its detail panel with Inbox / Sent tabs. This works for deregistered members too — the WebUI is the only surface that shows them (Storage).

#API contracts

The /api/* request/response shapes behind the dashboard are documented in WebUI API.