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.
Video tutorialsFive short videos, from your first rack to the handover: the Learn series.Getting startedSign in, create your first project, and take the guided tour of a cabled example estate.The estate modelCustom space types, flexible nesting and specialised racks, with stable links to every space.Racks & rack typesThe U-by-U elevation, reusable rack types, and the Physical, Power, Cabling and Topology workspaces, plus the Store room.Devices & the libraryPlace hardware from one searchable library, add custom device types, and share them across your org.The store roomDevices that exist or are planned but are not racked yet: track them, import them, and place them in racks as you design.Device rolesA shared vocabulary for what a device is for — base, org and project roles, chosen from the inspector.Structured cablingDevice wiring, custom ports and optics, connection previews, re-patching and complete physical paths.Power & thermalFeed devices from PDUs, and watch per-rack load in kW, heat in BTU/hr and weight roll up.Design reviewInline physical, power, cabling, airflow, fabric, weight and stock findings that surface mistakes as you build.CollaborationReal-time multi-user editing, live presence, and owner / editor / viewer roles.ExportOne-click Nautobot and NetBox bundles, CSV schedules, and the canonical Railyard JSON.Plans & billingWhat each plan includes, what a deliverable is, the Project Pass, rack limits per estate and what happens when a plan ends.Keyboard shortcutsThe full keyboard reference — the same sheet the app opens with ?.API & MCPThe REST API reference, and the Railyard MCP server for driving projects from an AI client.