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Account Management

Manage instances, mesh, and usage from a single page.

Overview

The Gold Lapel account page is your central control surface. From here you can see every proxy instance reporting in, label them for easy identification, toggle mesh networking per instance, and monitor usage across your deployment. No separate admin panel, no CLI-only management — everything that affects your running instances is available in one place.

Authentication

Your download token is your credential. You receive it after checkout and in your welcome email. No passwords, no OAuth, no separate account creation — the token is all you need.

To access your account page, visit goldlapel.com/account and enter your download token. Bookmark the link for quick access, or find it in your welcome email any time you need it.

Instance management

Every Gold Lapel proxy instance that sends a telemetry ping appears in your instance list automatically. There is nothing to register or configure — start a proxy, and it shows up.

For each instance, you can:

  • Set a label — give it a human-readable name like "prod-west", "staging", or "dev-local" so you can identify instances at a glance
  • Toggle mesh networking — enable or disable mesh participation for that specific instance
  • View details — see the instance's version, platform, connected database, and last ping time

Instances that stop pinging remain in the list with their last-seen timestamp. This gives you a clear picture of which instances are active and which have gone offline.

Mesh designation

Mesh nodes are purchased separately at $49/mo each. From the account page, you designate which of your instances get mesh — only designated instances participate in peer-to-peer cache invalidation sync.

Toggle mesh on for an instance, and it joins the mesh network on its next check-in. Toggle it off, and the instance drops out. Changes take effect within 5 minutes.

This model lets you be selective. You might enable mesh on your production instances where cache coherence matters, and leave it off on staging or development instances where it does not. You only pay for the mesh nodes you actually need.

For full details on how mesh works, see the GL Mesh documentation.

Dashboard access

Instance management is also available in the local Gold Lapel dashboard under the Pricing tab. When you have activated your token locally, the dashboard uses it automatically — no need to re-enter credentials.

The local dashboard provides the same instance list, labeling, and mesh controls as the account page. Use whichever is more convenient — the web account page when you want a central view, or the local dashboard when you are already working with a specific instance.

CLI reference

The activate command saves both your license and download token locally, so the proxy and dashboard can use them without further configuration.

# Save your license and download token locally
goldlapel activate <token>

After activation, your token is stored in the Gold Lapel configuration directory. The proxy includes it in telemetry pings, which is how the account page knows which instances belong to you. The dashboard reads it for account page access without prompting you to enter it again.