Introducing LEAF Portal: A Web Interface for Managing Your LEAF Deployment

Running LEAF in production means dealing with a growing number of adapters, organisations, users, and data streams. Until now, managing all of that required direct interaction with the backend. Today we’re introducing LEAF Portal — a web-based management interface that brings everything together in one place.

LEAF Portal runs on top of the MAPLE backend and is designed to make day-to-day administration and data exploration accessible to the whole team, not just those comfortable on the command line.

What’s in the Portal

Dashboard

The portal opens to a live dashboard giving you an at-a-glance overview of your deployment: active organisations, departments, users, access grants, and recent sensor activity. It’s the first place to check when you want to understand the current state of your system.

Admin Panel

The admin panel lets you manage the full hierarchy of your LEAF deployment, organisations, departments, users, and data permissions. You can add new users, adjust access grants, and organise teams without touching configuration files or making raw API calls.

Data Exploration

The data explorer provides an interactive interface for querying and inspecting sensor readings. You can filter by organisation, device, or time range and inspect raw values directly in the browser. It’s particularly useful for validating that a newly connected adapter is producing the expected output.

Visualisation

For time-series data, the portal includes a basic (at the moment) built-in plotting tool. You can chart sensor metrics over time, compare multiple data points on the same graph, and get a quick visual read on trends or anomalies without needing to export data to an external tool first.

Alerts

LEAF Portal includes a configurable alerting system. You can define threshold-based rules (e.g., trigger when a value exceeds a limit) or no-data alerts (trigger when a sensor stops reporting). Alerts are currently only delivered via email, making it straightforward to set up monitoring without additional infrastructure.

API Access

For teams that want to integrate LEAF data into their own systems, the portal provides API token management. Generate and revoke tokens for programmatic REST API access, giving external applications secure access to your sensor data.

Getting Started

LEAF Portal sets itself up automatically on first launch, it creates the required database schema and walks you through initial superadmin account configuration. From there, you can log in and start building out your organisation structure.

Full setup instructions and configuration options are available in the Portal documentation.