Control Panel | Astra

This is the most valuable feature for SREs. The Astra Control Panel provides a calendar view.

Manual clicking is great for debugging, but the true power of the Astra Control Panel lies in its API-first architecture. astra control panel

This is the flagship feature. When you select an application (e.g., "MongoDB-shard-01"), Astra automatically identifies all associated resources. It then quiesces the application (flushes memory to disk) before taking a snapshot. This prevents database corruption. You can schedule backups (hourly, daily, weekly) and retain them according to compliance rules (e.g., 30-day retention). This is the most valuable feature for SREs

The Astra Control Panel is tailor-made for Platform Engineering teams, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and DevOps practitioners who are responsible for ensuring that stateful applications (like databases, message queues, or AI/ML data pipelines) run reliably in Kubernetes without becoming an operational burden. This is the flagship feature

Traditional storage panels focus on volumes. The Astra Control Panel focuses on applications. In the App Hub, an operator defines an "App" as a logical grouping of Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and their persistent data. Once registered, every action—backup, restore, clone, or role-binding—applies to the entire application state, not just the storage layer.