The two planes
DataNivra has a control plane that we host (console, REST API, metadata store, audit trail) and a data plane that runs inside your network (the agent, the TDM engine and the industry packs). Everything that touches a row runs in the data plane. See Customer-resident architecture for the full picture.
Set-up order
- Start free. Sign up in the console with your work email (see Start free). After you verify the address, name your organisation: DataNivra suggests a unique tenant slug, which you can edit before confirming, and creates the organisation, you as its owner and a time-limited free trial in one step. There is nothing to request from us. (Contract customers whose organisation an operator creates with the
bootstrap-tenantcommand get the same result.) Invite administrators under Users & Roles; roles and separation of duties are enforced server-side. - Try the hosted sandbox — a synthetic estate and a sandbox agent that DataNivra runs, so the whole workflow works before you install anything. It opens in the console Playground; until the operator has deployed the sandbox runner, the page says the sandbox is not available yet.
- Install an agent inside the network that can reach your sources and target environments. Create a one-time enrollment token in the console, run the generated command, and check the host with
datanivra-agent doctor. See Agent installation and Downloads. - Register data sources by secret reference — for example
k8s://tdm/reader-credentialsorenv://TDM_READER_PASSWORD. The credential itself is resolved by the agent and never sent to DataNivra. Only connectors listed as available on Integrations ship today. - Run discovery, review sensitive-field findings, and approve classification and masking policies.
- Request a dataset from the console, the REST API or the CLI. It is certified in your network before it can be provisioned.
- Upgrade when useful in Billing & Plan, or take the enterprise contract path (Enterprise).
Where to go next
- API overview and the generated API reference
- Agent protocol for security reviewers
- Operator runbooks
- The learning center for the concepts behind each step