Break-glass shell access

This page isn't a task in the usual sense — there's no button for you to click. Break-glass SSH access to your Stack's own VM is either something you've consented to (typically by asking support for help debugging something) or, rarely, an emergency override when you couldn't be reached. Either way, it is never silent: this page is how to know it's happening and what it means.

Checking whether a window is open right now

A banner appears at the top of every page in your Dashboard whenever shell access is currently open on your Stack — naming when it was opened, when it auto-closes, and whether it was opened by your own consent or an emergency override. No banner means no window is open. Under the hood, this reads GET /v1/tenant/breakglass/status off your Stack's own health reporting.

What an open window actually means

• It's SSH access to your Stack's underlying VM — not your Dashboard, not your data through any application path.
• It's always time-boxed and closes automatically; nobody has to remember to close it.
• If it was opened as an emergency override (nobody could reach you for consent first), you're notified by email the moment it opens — before the window itself ever takes effect.
• Every window, however it was opened, is permanently on the record on the control-plane side.

Related

• Network quarantine — the other disclosure-only banner your Dashboard can show.
• Two surfaces — the control-plane/Stack split this banner's own disclosure mechanism rides on top of.