Shared terms that define how Termina understands production.

This page defines the core concepts used across Termina.
Understanding these terms helps you interpret insights consistently across systems.

Environment

An environment represents a distinct runtime context for your system.

Common examples:

• Production

• Staging

• Preview

• Development

Environments are detected automatically based on connected tools and metadata.
They allow Termina to separate live risk from non-production changes.

Service

A service is a deployable unit that runs in an environment.

Depending on your stack, a service may be:

• An application

• A containerized workload

• A serverless function

• An infrastructure-managed component

Services are tracked independently so changes can be attributed precisely.

Deployment

A deployment is a change that updates a service.

This can include:

• New application versions

• Configuration updates

• Infrastructure changes

• Rollouts triggered by CI/CD pipelines

Deployments are time-based events and are used to explain why production changed.

Snapshot

A snapshot is a point-in-time representation of an environment.

It captures:

• What services were running

• Their versions and configuration

• Related deployment metadata

Snapshots allow Termina to compare “what’s live now” with “what was live before.”

Change

A change is any detected difference between two snapshots.

Changes may come from:

• Deployments

• Configuration updates

• Infrastructure drift

• Manual actions outside CI/CD

Termina focuses on surfaced changes that affect production state.

Insight

An insight is an interpreted signal derived from one or more changes.

Insights highlight:

• Risk

• Inconsistency

• Unexpected behavior

• Gaps in visibility

They are designed to be actionable, not informational noise.

System

A system is any external tool connected to Termina.

Examples include:

• Cloud providers

• CI/CD platforms

• Infrastructure tools

Systems provide the raw signals that Termina correlates into a single view.

Production Overview

Production Overview is the primary surface where insights are presented.

It combines:

• Systems

• Environments

• Services

• Deployments

• Changes

Into a single, current view of what is live right now.