Introduction
What Nistor is, what it observes and acts on, and where to start in this documentation.
Nistor observes a data platform: it collects machine-observed facts from the systems a data team already runs, builds a graph from them, and runs rules and alerts over it.
| Read this | When you want to |
|---|---|
| Quickstart | run Nistor on your machine with docker compose |
| User guide | find your way around the web shell: search, lineage, rules, incidents, contracts |
| Install on GCP | run it on Google Cloud with the reference Terraform module |
| Install on Kubernetes | run it on Kubernetes (GKE first) with the Helm chart |
| Concepts | understand facts, tools, plugins and the platform roles |
| Configuration | set it up: environment variables and the nistor CLI |
| Inbound webhooks | send events to Nistor: how a sender signs a delivery, with a timestamp |
| Writing a tool | integrate a new external system |
| Plugin SDK | extend the web shell or add a server plugin |
| Versioning | know what a version number promises |
| Upgrading | move from one release to the next |
| Agent governance | turn on the agent governance plane on a deployment |
| AI key management | encrypt the stored AI provider keys on a deployment |
| Brand | use the logo, the lockups and the loader |
Project files: contributing, security policy, governance, changelog.