Activity docs accuracy audit: corrected setup instructions, the full event list, and broken-link fixes - #938
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis PR revises activity, traffic logging, and event streaming documentation. It adds integration setup and management guidance, updates navigation labels, improves accessibility text, and documents ChangesActivity documentation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The documentation changes still include a plaintext HTTP example that transmits authentication credentials and public examples with hostname/IP-like data, while one save-failure description is incomplete. These could mislead users into insecure configuration or leave existing integrations unclear after validation errors, so the PR is not merge-ready until the issues are corrected or explicitly accepted. Possibly related PRs
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In `@src/pages/manage/activity/event-streaming/generic-http.mdx`:
- Around line 3-13: Update the Generic HTTP integration documentation to require
HTTPS for configured endpoints because event delivery may include sensitive
payloads and authentication credentials; remove the implication that plain HTTP
is an acceptable documented configuration, including the prerequisite wording
around reachable HTTP or HTTPS endpoints.
In `@src/pages/manage/activity/event-streaming/index.mdx`:
- Around line 18-21: Use the “open source” two-word style in the Event Streaming
note on src/pages/manage/activity/event-streaming/index.mdx lines 18-21,
datadog.mdx lines 15-19, generic-http.mdx lines 7-9, sentinelone-data-lake.mdx
lines 7-10, and wazuh.mdx lines 5-8; replace “open-source management server”
with “open source management server” at each site.
In `@src/pages/manage/activity/index.mdx`:
- Line 40: Update the activity page prose to hyphenate the compound modifiers
system-generated, human-readable, and connection-level wherever they appear,
including the referenced occurrences, without changing the surrounding meaning.
In `@src/pages/manage/activity/traffic-events-logging.mdx`:
- Around line 210-259: Replace all captured-looking example values in the
traffic event JSON with clearly synthetic placeholders, including flow,
reporter, source, destination, user, and policy identifiers; hostnames; IP
addresses and ports; personal names and email; and window timestamps. Preserve
the field structure and representative value types while ensuring no real
customer or production data remains.
Apply the same fix in
`@src/pages/manage/activity/event-streaming/generic-http.mdx` around lines 121 -
145: The payload example also contains literal source and destination IP
addresses that require placeholder values.
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Line 172 describes every rejected save as if no integration exists, but existing integrations use Save Changes and are updated in place. State what happens to the existing configuration when validation fails.
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Description
Full accuracy audit of every page in the docs sidebar
Activitygroup, verified against the NetBird management server, client, and dashboard source at tagged releases (netbird v0.77.0,dashboard v2.91.1) rather than localmain, plus a sweep of 514 release notes across both repos for every activity, audit, traffic-event, and event-streaming mention going back to v0.12.0.The audit ran as seven parallel per-page passes (correction, then coverage gap), followed by a verification pass that read the diff back against source rather than trusting the pass reports. Roughly 45 independent checks were re-derived during verification, including a mechanical both-directions diff of the audit event list, all 29 AWS region codes, and all 6 Datadog sites. A closing writing pass applied the house documentation principles to the pages this branch touches.
npm run buildandnpm run lint:mdxpass. No page URLs or filenames changed, so no new redirects are needed.Corrections that fixed broken instructions
These are cases where following the docs literally produced a failure:
generic-http.mdx: Basic Auth was documented as a singleusername:passwordstring. The dashboard renders two separateUsernameandPasswordfields and base64-encodes them itself (useWebhookConfig.tsx:119-124). Anyone following the old text encodeduser:pass:and got a malformed header with no clear cause.amazon-firehose.mdx: the IAM policy resource ARN named the wrong stream. Step 1 said to createnetbird-activity-events, while the policy scoped tonetbird-event-streaming. Copy both and delivery fails silently. The dashboard's own placeholder isnetbird-activity-events(FirehoseSetup.tsx:231,259).generic-http.mdx: three of seven payload keys were wrong. The default body uses mixed casing:ID,Timestamp,Message,InitiatorIDare PascalCase, buttarget_id,meta, andreferenceare snake_case. The docs showedTargetID,Meta,Reference. This propagated into the Wazuh and SentinelOne recipes, where readers build parsers and detection rules against those keys.traffic-events-logging.mdx: taught two filters that no longer exist. TheP2PandRoutedconnection-type filter and the event-type/protocol popover were removed by dashboard PR Add docs for MFA totp #704, first released in v2.90.4. The page now documents the currentSourceandDestinationfilters and points at theRoutercolumn for spotting peer-to-peer flows.activity/index.mdx: the navigation path did not exist. The page said to open an "Audit Events tab". It is a collapsibleActivitysidebar item withAudit EventsandTraffic Eventschildren.Availability claim corrected on five pages
Every event-streaming page stated that the feature is "only available in the cloud version of NetBird." That stopped being true in dashboard v2.80.0 (2026-06-23), when the cloud edition merged into the dashboard.
EVENT_STREAMINGmaps toPlanTier.BUSINESS(useIsFeatureLocked.tsx:27) and unlocks on licensed self-hosted deployments (:55-58), which the existing/selfhosted/enterprisefeature table already stated correctly. The docs contradicted themselves.All five pages now read: Business plan on NetBird Cloud, plus licensed self-hosted, not served by the open source management server.
Audit event list rebuilt
activity/index.mdxdocumented roughly 60 events against the 143 defined inmanagement/server/activity/codes.goat v0.77.0. Several documented names were never product strings: "Peer added by user", "Peer removed by user", and "Remote job created for peer" do not exist. The real values arePeer deleted/user.peer.deleteandCreate Job for peer/peer.job.create.All 143 are now listed with their stable activity codes, grouped into 16 categories, and verified as an exact 1:1 match with
activityMapin both directions. Ten version gates were confirmed by tag containment: identity providers v0.62.0, DNS zones v0.63.0, invite links v0.64.2, Services v0.65.0, peer expose v0.66.0, SQLite file override v0.66.1, custom domains v0.66.3, auto-update always v0.67.0, IPv6 and local MFA v0.71.0, session extend v0.72.0, Agent Network v0.74.0.Broken links fixed
## What NetBird sendsgeneratesid="what-net-bird-sends". Bothgeneric-http.mdxandwazuh.mdxlinked to#what-netbird-sends. The Wazuh one was the pointer to the canonical payload description. All 16 anchors in the section are now verified against the built HTML.#step-1-create-an-s3-bucket,#step-2-create-an-iam-user, and the Firehose equivalents). One carried a-2suffix from a retired counter-based slugger.Create a Datdog API Keyand the link pointed at#step-1-create-a-datdog-api-key, which matched nothing either way../wazuh-receiverlinks removed. That page does not exist anywhere in the repo. The receiver's requirements are now described inline.datadog.mdx,amazon-s3.mdx, andamazon-firehose.mdxlinked tohttps://preview.netbird.io/integrations, published on the public docs site. Nowhttps://app.netbird.io/integrations?tab=event-streaming, matching the convention used by the EDR pages.Previously undocumented behavior now covered
The coverage-gap pass found shipped functionality with no documentation:
isOtherIntegrationEnabledand grey themselves out. Readers who found a card disabled had no explanation anywhere.DELETEand destroys the configuration. Generic HTTP issues aPUTand preserves it, with deletion as a separateDanger Zoneaction. Verified per component.Owner,Admin,Network Admin, andAuditorcan read events;network_adminhas an explicitEvents: Read: true, the others inherit throughAutoAllowNew, anduseris denied.GET /api/events/auditreturns the 10,000 most recent events, newest first, with no pagination or filtering parameters, and the dashboard reads the same endpoint so the UI shares that cap. There is no CSV or JSON export button.events.dbby default,NB_ACTIVITY_EVENT_SQLITE_FILEsince v0.66.1, orNB_ACTIVITY_EVENT_STORE_ENGINE=postgreswithNB_ACTIVITY_EVENT_POSTGRES_DSN. Events are never deleted on a schedule, so the store grows unbounded.deleted_userstable holding names and emails of users removed from the IdP. Live users are resolved from the IdP at read time. This is what produces theunknown@unknown.comvalues the page already documented, so two previously disconnected notes now explain each other.create_linux.go:45), so drops were invisible in userspace too. On macOS and Windows the userspace filter is always used (create.go:19), so those peers always report drops.connection_typeAPI parameter the dashboard no longer exposes.NB_FORCE_USERSPACE_FIREWALLadded to/client/environment-variables. The traffic page instructs readers to set it, and it was undocumented. It only takes effect when WireGuard already runs in userspace, so it must be paired withNB_WG_KERNEL_DISABLED.Security and data hygiene
Authorizationor custom header. The page no longer presents plain HTTP as an option. It states accurately that the dashboard's validator does not reject anhttp://address, framed as a validation gap rather than a supported configuration, because the validator is^(https?:\/\/)?and claiming the product enforces HTTPS would be false.142.250.185.206), a captured device hostname, and captured-looking IDs. Prose elsewhere on the page named a real employee's device,Maycons-MacBook-Pro.local. Overlay addresses now use100.64.0.x, deliberately not an RFC 5737 range, because NetBird overlay addresses genuinely live in100.64.0.0/10. Public destinations use203.0.113.x, domains useexample.com.Navigation
NavigationDocs.jsxonly. Nohrefchanged.Stream Activity Eventsrenamed toEvent Streaming, matching the dashboard tab and theIntegrations>Event StreamingbreadcrumbAmazon Firehoserenamed toAmazon Data Firehose, matching the card, the modal title, and both page H1sSentinelOne Data LakeandWazuhnested underGeneric HTTP, since neither is a shipped integration; the dashboard renders exactly four cards and the API platform enum isdatadog,s3,firehose,generic_httpWriting pass on the touched pages
network-resource-blocked-connection.pngwas labelednetwork-resource-succesful-connection, so a screen reader announced a blocked connection as successful.activity/index.mdxandtraffic-events-logging.mdx. The traffic page previously opened with three stacked admonitions, so readers hit plan gating and infrastructure requirements before learning what a traffic event is.generic-http.mdxnow says when not to use it. Readers could previously build a templated Generic HTTP pipe to Datadog without learning a native card exists.open sourceas two words, hyphenated compound modifiers, UI strings in backticks with the product's own casing.Check manually before merging
Screenshots that predate the current UI (all still referenced, none replaced):
All | P2P | Routedcontrol. The current UI shows one aggregated row per group with a window range. The two conceptual diagrams remain valid.activity-monitoring.pngshows March 2025 events, a pre-redesign sidebar, separate filter dropdowns instead of the singleFiltersbutton, and a10 rows per pagecontrol where the table now sets 25.datadog-region-select.pnganddatadog-api-key.pngshow the old modal subtitle "your NetBird activity events" where the source now reads "your NetBird audit & traffic events".SentinelOne console steps could not be verified and may be wrong. The page routes users through a
Visibilitymenu, but the repo's ownapi-key-generation.pngshows a top nav with noVisibilityitem, and a button readingAdd keyrather thanAdd Key. Third-party UI is outside what the NetBird repos can confirm. Someone with a tenant should check.Neither recipe page states its provenance. There is no indication whether NetBird validated the SentinelOne and Wazuh integrations or whether they were community-contributed. That changes how much a reader should trust them and is a one-line fix if the answer is known.
Cloud-backend claims left as-is (unverifiable from source)
TrafficEventSetting.tsx:132). But the traffic page's default query window is seven days (events/traffic/page.tsx:34-40) and the API accepts arbitrary ranges. The docs now match the dashboard string, but those two facts cannot both be right. Worth confirming with the cloud team before this ships.event_streamingpermission lives in the closed-source server. Documented generically.412status on a failed test event is recorded as a dated observation, not a contract.Upstream staleness noticed, not fixable here
Product bugs worth separate issues:
DatadogRegions.tsxis missing Datadog's AP2 (Australia) site. Australian Datadog customers cannot use the Datadog card at all. There is also a permanently hidden manual API URL input atDatadogSetup.tsx:159-172that would be the natural escape hatch.AmazonRegions.tsxis missing recent AWS regions, including Malaysia (ap-southeast-5), Thailand (ap-southeast-7), Mexico (mx-central-1), and Taipei (ap-east-2).Systemin the table row (ActivityEntryRow.tsx:96) andNetBirdin theInitiatorfilter (ActivityTable.tsx:77). Users filtering for one will not match what they see in the other. Both labels are documented so readers are not stranded.NetworkTrafficEventlistsidandreceive_timestampunderrequired:but defines neither inproperties(openapi.yml:73-77). The generated API reference therefore omits both.ipa/resources/event-streaming-integrations.mdxshowsaccess_key_id/secret_access_key; the dashboard sendsaccess_key/secret_key. One is wrong and it is user-facing. That page is generated, so the fix belongs in the OpenAPI spec.http://. Closing this inisValidUrlor a webhook-specific validator would let the docs say "required" without qualification.billing_adminhas no entry in the OSSRolesMap, so that path returnsUserRoleNotFoundErrorrather than a clean permission denial.Dead code and cosmetic issues:
TrafficEventsConnectionTypeFilter.tsxandTrafficEventsFilter.tsxhave no importers after PR Add docs for MFA totp #704.TrafficEventsTable.tsx:210-213usesaccessorKey: "user_email", a flat field the API no longer returns (nowuser.email). Inert while the column is hidden.ActivityEventCodeSelector.tsxandUsersDropdownSelector.tsxappear superseded byActivityTypePicker.tsx.codes.go: activity138is skipped;GroupRemovedFromSetupKeyreads "Group removed from user setup key" with a stray word;account.settings.auto.version.updateuses pluralsettingswhere every sibling uses singular.memory.go:113-114carries a stale comment claimingICMPCodeis not propagated by the manager. It is./how-to/*paths. They resolve throughnext.config.mjs, so nothing is broken, but they ride redirects unnecessarily. Note thatGenericHTTPModal.tsx:320deep-links to#custom-body-template-optional, so that heading must not be retitled without a matching dashboard change.openapi.ymlevent-streaming descriptions contain developer hedging ("should be verified", "Based on the provided Go code") that renders verbatim in the public API reference.Summary by CodeRabbit
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