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Orientation — onboard to an environment

Orientation turns DXDT's accumulated knowledge of your environment into a guided introduction for people who are new to it — new hires, an engineer joining the on-call rotation, or a consultant getting up to speed. Instead of tribal knowledge scattered across wikis and heads, the introduction is generated from what DXDT has actually observed: your mapped infrastructure, incident history, findings, and taught facts.

Open it at /orientation (also linked from the navigation).

The guided tour

Five steps, each grounded in your live data:

  1. Meet the infrastructure — what's deployed where: clouds, projects, regions, and the dependency map, with diagrams generated from the infrastructure graph.
  2. Key services — the services everything else depends on, ranked by how much depends on them.
  3. Recent incidents — what has actually gone wrong lately, and how it was resolved.
  4. Known issues & posture — open findings, standing risks, and the current security/cost posture.
  5. Team knowledge — the taught facts in institutional memory: the "everyone knows that" items nobody remembers to tell the new person.

Progress is tracked per user — you can leave and pick up where you stopped. Guided prompts also appear in chat, so a newcomer can go from "what is this system?" to asking real investigative questions in the same session.

The orientation pack

The same content is available as a document: an orientation pack covering infrastructure, services, incident history, posture, runbooks, and who-owns-what — downloadable as Markdown, so it can live in your wiki, be attached to an onboarding ticket, or be handed to someone before their access is even provisioned. The pack regenerates from current data, so it never goes stale the way a hand-written "architecture overview" page does.

Good to know

  • Orientation is read-only — it summarizes what DXDT already knows; it never scans or changes anything itself.
  • The quality of step 5 is exactly the quality of your taught facts — teams that teach DXDT consistently effectively get new-hire onboarding for free.