url: "/create-application"

- title: Monitoring GitOps applications

url: "/applications-dashboard"

- title: Managing GitOps applications

url: "/manage-application"

- title: Progressive delivery with GitOps

toc: true

Control access to entities in GitOps through ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control). ABAC allows fine-grained access to application entities through the use of rules.

For GitOps, you can currently define ABAC for application entities in the Codefresh UI or programmatically via Terraform.

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View deployed applications in either List (the default) or Card views. Both views are sorted by the most recent deployments.

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|Application filters | Filter by a range of attributes to customize the information in the dashboard to bring you what you need. {::nomarkdown} <ul><li>Application state<br>A snapshot that displays a breakdown of the deployed applications by their health status.<br>Click a status to filter by applications that match it.<br>Codefresh tracks Argo CD's set of health statuses. See the official documentation on <a href="https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/health" target=”_blank”>Health sets</a>.</li><li>Application attributes<br>Attribute filters support multi-selection, and results are based on an OR relationship within the same filter with multiple options, and an AND relationship between filters.<br>Clicking <b>More Filters</b> gives you options to filter by Health status, Cluster names, Namespace, and Type. <br><ul><li>Application Type: Can be any of the following<ul><li>Applications: Standalone applications. See the official documentation on <a href="https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/declarative-setup/#applications" target=”_blank”>Applications</a>.</li><li>ApplicationSet: Applications created using the ApplicationSet Custom Resource (CR) template. An ApplicationSet can generate single or multiple applications. See the official documentation on <a href="https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user-guide/application-set" target=”_blank”>Generating Applications with ApplicationSet</a>.</li><li>Git Source: Applications created by Codefresh that includes other applications and CI resources. See <a href="https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/installation/gitops/git-sources/">Git Sources</a>.</li></ul></li></li><li>Labels:The K8s labels defined for the applications. The list displays labels of <i>all</i> the applications, even if you have applied filters.<br>To see the available labels, select <b>Add</b>, and then select the required label and one or more values. <br>To filter by the labels, select <b>Add</b> and then <b>Apply</b>.<br> See the official documentation on <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/labels" target=”_blank”>Labels and selectors</a>.</li></ul></ul>{:/}|

|{::nomarkdown}<img src="../../../../images/icons/icon-mark-favorite.png?display=inline-block">{:/}| Star applications as favorites and view only the starred applications.{::nomarkdown}<br>Select the <img src="../../../../images/icons/icon-mark-favorite.png?display=inline-block"> to star the application as a favorite.<br><br>To filter by favorite applications, on the filters bar, select <img src="../../../../images/icons/icon-fav-starred.png?display=inline-block">.<br>{:/} TIP: If you star applications as favorites in the GitOps Apps dashboard, you can filter by the same applications in the [DORA metrics dashboard]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/dashboards/dora-metrics/#metrics-for-favorite-applications). |

|Application actions| Options to monitor/manage applications through the application's context menu. {::nomarkdown}<ul><li>Quick view<br>A comprehensive read-only view of the deployment and definition information for the application.</li>{:/}See [Application Quick View](#view-deployment-configuration-info-for-selected-gitops-application) in this article.{::nomarkdown}<li>Synchronize/Sync<br>Manually synchronize the application.</li>{:/}See [Manually sync applications]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/deployments/gitops/manage-application/#manually-synchronize-an-application).{::nomarkdown}<li>Edit<br>Modify application definitions.</li>{:/}See [Edit application definitions]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/deployments/gitops/manage-application/#edit-application-definitions).{::nomarkdown}<li>Refresh and Hard Refresh: Always available in the application's toolbar. <ul><li>Refresh: Retrieve desired (Git) state, compare with the live (cluster) state, and refresh the application to sync with the desired state.</li><li>Hard Refresh: Refresh the application to sync with the Git state, while removing the cache.</li></ul>See <a href="https://codefresh.io/docs/docs/deployments/gitops/manage-application/#refreshhard-refresh-gitops-applications">Refresh/hard refresh GitOps applications</a>.{:/} |

Errors are flagged in the **Warnings/Errors** button, displayed at the top right of the Applications tab in the GitOps Apps dashboard. Clicking the button shows the list of applications with the warnings/errors and the possible reasons for these.

Monitor the resources deployed in the current version of the selected application in the Current State tab.

Selecting an application from the GitOps Apps dashboard takes you to the Current State tab, which as its title indicates, displays the

live state of the application's resources (Kubernetes objects) on the cluster, including health, sync state, manifests, and logs.

* [Events](#events-for-application-resources)

The Current State tab supports Tree and List view formats.

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Delete specific resources in an application directly from the Codefresh UI.

Monitor an ongoing deployment for the selected application, and review its historical deployments.

The Timeline tab displays the history of deployments for the selected application, sorted by the most recent deployment (default), labeled **Current Version** at the top.

The Services tab shows the K8s services for each deployment of the application.

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Optional. The group or groups to which to add the application.

The Git repository to be tracked for changes to the application's source code.