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Crossplane WebUI

The Crossplane Web UI delivers a local, read-only dashboard for inspecting and understanding your UXP-based control plane behavior directly from within your cluster.

This dashboard provides visibility into key Crossplane resources, pipelines, and controller behavior, focusing on helping developers and platform operators reason about control plane activity without requiring access to cloud-hosted systems.

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This local Web UI runs inside the same cluster as your UXP installation. For multi-cluster or enterprise-level management, see the Upbound Console.

Key features​

  • Local, cluster-scoped Web UI that maps 1:1 with a UXP instance
  • Introspects Crossplane v2 control planes and AI-powered pipelines
  • Shows real-time structure of Operations, Agents, and Function Pipelines
  • Works with up project run and up project test workflows
  • Displays composed resources, function server packages, and more

Installation​

The Crossplane WebUI comes pre-installed when you install your UXP 2.0 instance using a helm chart.

Version compatibility​

Each Web UI version explicitly ties to a corresponding UXP version. To ensure feature parity across UXP and the dashboard upbound/crossplane-web-ui:v1.0.x works with upbound/crossplane:v1.0.x.

CLI integration​

You can launch or manage the Web UI directly from the Upbound CLI:

up uxp web-ui open

To stop the dashboard:

up uxp web-ui disable

Re-enable the dashboard:

up uxp web-ui enable

When using up project run or up project test (for local ephemeral development clusters), the Web UI automatically configures into the local cluster.

Dashboard views​

The Crossplane Web UI provides a read-only visualization layer like the Control Plane Explorer in the Upbound Cloud Console, with enhancements for XPv2:

You can:

  • View installed controller packages and associated CRDs
  • See all resources Crossplane composes, including those with OwnerRef metadata
  • Visualize Operations and inspect function pipelines: Understand how functions interact with specific XRs (Composite Resources) and MRs (Managed Resources)

The Crossplane WebUI scopes to UXP clusters only. It doesn't support:

  • Spaces
  • Teams or Groups
  • Authentication or account-based views