Drift Dashboard and Analytics
Monitor how far your architecture has drifted from a governance-approved baseline. Visual gauges, hotspot detection, change frequency heatmaps, and a chronological change feed give architects full visibility into architectural evolution.
Architecture drifts from its approved state over time. The Drift Dashboard provides a real-time view of how far the current architecture has moved from any baseline, enabling governance teams to catch unplanned changes early and maintain architectural integrity.
Drift Metric
Drift is measured as a percentage of change from the baseline:
Drift % = (modified + added + removed) / totalAtBaseline x 100Visual Gauge Thresholds
The drift gauge uses colour-coded thresholds to communicate urgency:
Dashboard Features
Change Feed Detail
Each entry in the change feed includes:
When to Use the Drift Dashboard
File-based baselines provide defence-grade reproducibility with SHA-256 integrity hashing. Unlike Git tags, baselines survive squash merges and rebases, go through PR review, and work in air-gapped environments.
NeoArc wraps Git with architecture-first concepts: checkpoints instead of commits, tracks instead of branches, baselines instead of tags. Semantic diff, conflict resolution, drift analytics, and shelving provide a complete governance workflow.