REFERENCE
Glossary
Short definitions of terms used in the documentation and console. Tesserra product names remain in English.
Jump to a letter: A · B · C · D · F · G · H · I · J · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · Z
A
- Active-active
- Multi-region mode in which more than one region serves traffic simultaneously. ↗ read more
- Agent
- AI model exposed by the platform, bound to a Nucleus and optionally to a vertical. ↗ read more
- AI Architect
- Blueprint assistant in the console (App → AI Architect and Project Architect tab). Suggests and provisions catalog resources. ↗ read more
- Archive
- Storage — S3-compatible object storage or block volume. ↗ read more
- Autoscale
- Autoscaling policy that adjusts Compute replicas. ↗ read more
- API key
- Non-human credential scoped to an Organization and privilege. The secret is shown only once. ↗ read more
B
- Beacon
- Beacon — events and pub/sub notifications (NATS). ↗ read more
C
- Compute
- Compute — dedicated Linux instance or web/API/worker/cron workload. ↗ read more
- Conduit
- Conduit — streaming and messaging (Apache Kafka). ↗ read more
- CIDR
- Notation for an IP range. Defines the address space of a Fabric. ↗ read more
D
- Datastore
- Managed database (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis). ↗ read more
- DPA
- Data Processing Agreement — contractual addendum under GDPR/LGPD.
F
- Fabric
- Private network with CIDR and subnets, managed per Project. ↗ read more
- Fernet
- Symmetric encryption standard used to store platform secrets.
G
- Gateway
- Load balancer combined with DNS management and automatic TLS issuance. ↗ read more
H
- Health
- Organization health console (App → Health). Aggregates metrics and SLA for each provisioned Project. ↗ read more
I
- Insight
- Insight — observability (metrics, logs, and Grafana). ↗ read more
- Idempotency-Key
- HTTP header that prevents duplicate creation on retries. 24-hour window. ↗ read more
J
- JWT
- JSON Web Token. Access tokens expire in 15 min; refresh tokens rotate on each use. ↗ read more
L
- Lane
- Lane — queues and async jobs (RabbitMQ). ↗ read more
M
- MRR / ARR
- Monthly recurring revenue and its annualized projection. Visible in the billing console.
N
- Nucleus
- Cluster or server within a Zone. Hosts Agents and, gradually, other resources. ↗ read more
O
- Overage
- Tokens consumed above the monthly quota, billed as a separate invoice line item. ↗ read more
- Organization (Tenant)
- Platform customer. Billing boundary, identity, and resource ownership. ↗ read more
P
- Plan
- Defines pricing, monthly quota, and structural limits per Organization. ↗ read more
- Project
- Set of resources that make up an application. ↗ read more
Q
- Quota
- Monthly AI token limit per Organization. Overage is billed per thousand tokens. ↗ read more
R
- Resource type
- Catalog product identified by slug (Compute, Datastore, etc.). Documented at /docs/pecas. ↗ read more
- Resource
- Concrete instance of a catalog type in a Project. ↗ read more
- Resilience
- Declared fault-tolerance policy: single, multi-zone, or multi-region. ↗ read more
- RPO / RTO
- Recovery Point / Time Objective. Specific values depend on replication mode.
S
- Sentinel
- Sentinel — firewall and WAF at the HTTP edge. ↗ read more
- Simple / Advanced mode
- Project interface variants. Simple exposes essential types; Advanced exposes the full catalog. ↗ read more
- SLA
- Service-Level Agreement. Each plan publishes its target; the Health console shows actual performance. ↗ read more
T
- tesserra-info
- Shell command on the Linux instance that summarizes CPU, RAM, IP, SSH, and monitoring. ↗ read more
U
- Usage
- Token and request usage console (App → Usage). Shows overage and cycle history. ↗ read more
V
- Vertical
- Target market (health, legal, agro, tax, etc.). Defines the available Agent catalog.
Z
- Zone
- Geographic region operated as a single unit. ↗ read more