Reference

Exact, scannable facts about Kanvas - what each plan includes, what each role can do, canvas controls, limits, and where to get help.

Use this section when you need an exact answer: whether a feature is in your plan, whether your role can perform an action, what a control does, which limit applies, or how to reach support. Reference pages list facts and defaults. They do not teach a workflow or argue a design.

For learning and task-oriented content, see Getting Started, the How-to Guides and the Concepts.

Feature Availability by Plan

Which Kanvas capabilities each Layer5 plan includes, and the role, provider, and hosting conditions that also decide whether a capability is available to you.

Permissions by Role

Which Kanvas actions are checked against a permission, which default role grants each permission, what anonymous users can do, and which actions are limited by mode and ownership instead.

Releases

Release version of Meshery Extensions.

Canvas Objects

Reference for every object on the Designer canvas - components, shapes, sections, textboxes, images and edges - covering how each is added, what you can do to it, its style options, defaults and limits.

Tool Modes

Reference for the Designer tool modes - Select, Pan, Pencil and Pen - covering how to enter and leave each, what the mouse does in each, and how wheel and zoom controls behave.

Canvas Actions

Reference for the Designer canvas menu - undo and redo, paste, select all, reset, screenshot, options, shortcuts and the Help Center - with the mode in which each action is available.

Layout and Layers

Reference for the six automatic layouts and the Layers panel - what each layout produces, when Kanvas lays a design out on its own, and what each layer toggle hides.

Component Badges

Reference for every badge Kanvas draws on a component - what it means, where it sits, when it appears, what a click does and how to hide it - in Designer and Operator modes.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Complete list of Kanvas keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Linux and macOS, with the mode each one works in.

Operator Views

What an Operator view stores, how views are saved, shared, opened, exported, and deleted, and who can do what.

Resource Details

The fields, actions, and capacity gauges the Details panel shows for each Kubernetes resource kind in Operator mode, and what it does not show.

Supported Import and Export Formats

Every file format Kanvas accepts on import and produces on export, with detection rules, limits, and what each format keeps.

URL Parameters

Every query parameter Kanvas reads from its address - which design or view to open, how to draw it, and which viewport to restore - with accepted values, defaults and how parameters combine.

Auto-pan on Drag

Reference for the Auto-pan on Drag setting - what triggers it, its default, where it is stored, the design size at which Kanvas turns it off for each render mode, and how it recovers.

Performance Limits

Reference for what each render mode draws, the design sizes and zoom levels at which Kanvas gates features, how Adaptive mode decides to change modes, the enforced limits on a design, and what to adjust when a design feels slow.

Help and Support

What the Kanvas Help Center offers, which support channel each plan includes, and the two preconditions the support form requires - a remote provider and a signed-in identity.

Last modified October 15, 2026: docs(kanvas): rendering - render modes, URL parameters, auto-pan, performance limits (ffba9dc53fb)