Applications

The Access section is your catalog of the things people get access to: SaaS products (GitHub, Jira, AWS), internal systems, and technical services (a VPN, an AD group). Each entry is an application, and lazyit tracks who can reach each one. This page covers building and organizing that catalog; granting access is covered in Access grants.

What an application is

An application is just a named target that someone can hold access to. Only the name is required — everything else is optional and there to help your team recognize and find it:

• Vendor — the provider behind it (Atlassian, Microsoft, AWS…).
• Category — a grouping for browsing (see below).
• URL — where the system lives. This can be a normal https://… address or a scheme-less internal host such as vpn.corp.local. For safety, only scheme-less hosts and http(s) links are accepted; other schemes are rejected.
• Critical — a flag for especially sensitive targets (see Criticality & alerts).
• Description and Notes — free text for context.

Adding and editing applications

From the Access list, choose New application, fill in at least a name, and create it. Open any application to see its Details and edit it. Two shortcuts speed up repetitive setup:

• Clone creates a new application pre-filled from an existing one — handy for similar systems. The clone is a separate application; you grant access to it independently.
• Edit updates any field at any time.

Creating and editing applications is everyday catalog work, available to administrators and members. Deleting an application is an administrator-only action.

Categories

Categories organize the catalog so it stays browsable as it grows. lazyit ships with a starter set — SaaS, Internal, Service, Third Party, Infrastructure, Other — but categories are fully yours to manage: rename them, add your own, or remove ones you don’t use. A category is optional; an application with no category is perfectly valid.

Deleting a category never deletes the applications in it — it simply detaches them, leaving them uncategorized. Nothing is lost.

Finding applications

The Access list supports searching by name or vendor, and filtering by category and by criticality (critical only / non-critical / any). Each row also shows the count of active access — how many people currently hold a live grant on that application — so you can see at a glance which systems are in active use.

Deleting an application

Deleting is a soft delete: the application is hidden from the catalog but its record (and the access history attached to it) is preserved, so audit trails stay intact. An administrator can restore a deleted application later. Because deletes are reversible, lazyit never loses the record of who once had access to what.

Removing an application from the catalog does not “un-grant” anyone. Access is tracked separately and kept for audit — see Access grants.