Missions

The Missions page is the home base for all your data. Every mission you've uploaded — every test run, patrol, scan, or flight — lives here with its report, metrics, and metadata.

Think of it as your mission library: a searchable, filterable record of everything your systems have done.

Mission Library

Filter buttons (top) — narrow missions by labels or metadata such as date, device, operator, firmware, or any custom fields
Sort controls (top right) — sort by date, duration, or specific metrics
+ Add button (top right) — upload new data
Breakdown — expandable summary showing metadata distribution across all missions
Mission cards — each mission at a glance with metrics, files, and a link to its report

The filter buttons at the top of the page reflect the actual attributes in your data — so you'll see filters relevant to your setup. Labels appears first when mission labels are available. Click a filter to expand it, then select one or more values; selecting multiple labels shows missions with any of those labels.

Combine multiple filters to narrow down precisely. Active filters are preserved in the URL, so you can bookmark or share filtered views with your team.

Sort by date (default), duration, or any mission-level metric. The sort dropdown updates dynamically based on the metrics available in your data.

The Mission Report

Click View report on any mission card to open its full AI-generated analysis. Here's what you'll find inside:

Summary — a narrative overview of what happened, with key metadata values (device IDs, locations, firmware versions)
Key events — a chronological timeline narrating the important moments: anomalies, state changes, and notable events, each with a timestamp, severity level, expandable detail, and associated images
Metrics — a grid of key performance indicators extracted from the data (distance, speed, depth, battery, or any domain-specific measurements)
Timeseries plots — interactive charts showing how values changed over the mission, with zoom, pan, hover tooltips, and key event markers overlaid
Map — a geographic visualization of the mission route with color-coded paths, clickable to set reference time across other visualizations
3D trajectory viewer — for missions with 3D position data, an interactive viewer you can rotate, zoom, and pan
Image gallery — a timeline-based view of camera feeds with multi-camera support and full-resolution expansion
Available data — a list of data topics from your original files used in this mission

All time-based components (plots, map, 3D trajectory, image gallery) are synchronized — clicking around in one updates them all.

Mission name and description

Both the mission name and description are editable. Click the mission name in the report header to rename it inline. For the description, hover over the description area and click Edit to modify it, or click Add a description... if one doesn't exist yet. Descriptions are searchable and visible to your team.

The ⋯ (more actions) button in the report header — next to Ask AI — opens a menu with everything you can do to a mission beyond editing its name and description:

Download All Visualizations — pulls every image, map, and chart from the mission page as a single bundle
Download Original Data — re-downloads the source files you uploaded (MCAPs, logs, attachments)
Share link — copies a link to this mission; anyone in your org with access can open it
Edit time format — switch how timestamps are displayed across the report (e.g. local vs. UTC, absolute vs. mission-relative)
Sync key events, maps, and plots — when on, each key event shows up as a small white bubble on the chart axes at its timestamp, and clicking around in one time-based component (key event, plot point, map location) updates the others. On by default
Delete Mission — soft-deletes the mission so it stops appearing in your library. The summary, key events, plots, instances, and derived artifacts are hidden but recoverable; contact support if you need a deleted mission restored. The original uploaded files in Mesh Storage are unaffected — remove those separately from Browse if you also want the source data gone

Comments & attachments

Each mission has a discussion section where you and your team can attach files, leave notes, observations, and follow-up items. Alloy AI reads these too — so comments you leave become part of the context when you ask questions about a mission.

You can also ask Alloy AI to write comments for you — useful for bulk-commenting across multiple missions or having it note down interesting observations it finds during analysis.

Replay Viewer

Click Replay in the mission header to play back raw sensor recordings from your mission.

The replay viewer lets you scrub through the timeline and inspect sensor readings and other recorded topics at any point in time. You can rearrange panels, choose which data topics to display, and customize the layout to focus on what matters to you.

Starting your first layout

If your organization has no saved Replay layout yet, choose how to begin before Alloy opens the recording:

Chat Layout — use a layout Alloy has already prepared in the mission chat.
Auto Layout — ask Alloy to arrange useful panels for the recording. The first successful Auto Layout is saved as Overview, so Replay can reopen with a useful starting point next time.
Empty View — start with a blank workspace and add only the panels you need.

Alloy does not load the recording until you make one of these choices. This keeps first-time Replay setup fast and avoids opening a large recording just to show an empty workspace.

Saving and reusing layouts

Use the Layout picker in the Replay toolbar to switch between your organization's saved layouts. You can save the arrangement you are editing under a descriptive name, then reuse it across recordings. Saved layouts are shared with your organization, so use clear names that communicate their purpose.

You can also delete a saved layout from the picker when it is no longer useful. Auto Layout remains available in the toolbar after you have chosen a starting layout; its changes are temporary until you save them.

Uploading new missions

Click + Add to upload data. See Getting Started for all upload methods including browser upload, cloud storage auto-ingestion, and edge device uploads.

For uploads containing only ANPP files, the processing percentage estimates progress using total file size and elapsed time, calibrated against historical ANPP ingestion times. It can continue increasing while the processing stage stays the same, but stops at 80% until ingestion is confirmed complete. It then shows 98% while the mission card refreshes. For other formats, unknown filenames, or an unknown file size, progress uses the current processing stage and elapsed time, with the same 80% maximum.

Ingestion completion does not mean an automated report has finished; report generation runs separately.