Railyard documentation Everything you need to design a data-centre estate — from your first rack to a DCIM export.
Railyard is a fast, visual sketchpad for data-centre estates: locations, data centres, rows, racks and devices, with structured cabling, power and thermal budgets, automatic design review, real-time collaboration and export to your DCIM. Pick a topic to dive in.
Getting started Sign in, create your first project, and take the guided tour of a cabled example estate. The estate model Company → location → data centre → row → rack → device, with name-derived, deep-linkable URLs. Racks & rack types The U-by-U elevation, reusable rack types, and the Physical / Power / Cabling view modes. Devices & the library Place hardware from a 692-model built-in library, add custom device types, and share a library across your org. Device roles A shared vocabulary for what a device is for — base, org and project roles, chosen from the inspector. Structured cabling Named ports, MPO breakouts, patch panels, trunks, re-patching, end-to-end tracing and the Logical view. Power & thermal Feed devices from PDUs, and watch per-rack load in kW, heat in BTU/hr and weight roll up. Design review Inline power, cabling, airflow, fabric and weight findings that surface mistakes as you build. Collaboration Real-time multi-user editing, live presence, and owner / editor / viewer roles. Export One-click Nautobot and NetBox bundles, CSV schedules, and the canonical Railyard JSON. Keyboard shortcuts The full keyboard reference — the same sheet the app opens with ?. API & MCP The REST API reference, and the Railyard MCP server for driving projects from an AI client.