Visualizations

VaultLens provides interactive relationship graphs powered by React Flow. These graphs let you visually explore how your Vault's auth methods, policies, identities, and secret paths relate to each other.

Available Graphs

Auth → Policy Graph

Shows how authentication methods connect to policies through their roles:

Auth Method (blue) → Role (orange) → Policy (green)

Useful for understanding which token policies users receive when authenticating through each auth method.

Policy → Secret Path Graph

Shows which secret paths each policy grants access to:

Policy (green) → Secret Path (purple)

Useful for auditing what data a given policy can reach.

Identity Graph

Shows the full identity chain across entities, groups, and policies:

Entity (teal) → Group (blue) → Policy (green) → Secret Path (purple)

Useful for understanding a user's effective permissions end-to-end.

Interacting with Graphs

• Pan — click and drag the canvas
• Zoom — scroll wheel or pinch
• Select — click a node to highlight its connections
• Fit view — double-click the canvas background to reset the view

Table View

Each graph also has a Table View tab that presents the same data in a tabular format — useful when you need to search or copy specific values.

Node Types

Node Type	Colour	Represents
authMethod	Blue	Vault auth method mount
role	Orange	Auth method role
policy	Green	ACL policy
secretPath	Purple	Secret path rule from a policy
entity	Teal	Identity entity
group	Blue	Identity group
result	Green/Red	Allow/deny result (Permission Tester)