Top use cases
Save the prompts you reuse and regenerate diagrams every time your stack changes.
Document REST/GraphQL gateways and downstream services
Highlight latency budgets and retry/backoff policies
Show authN/authZ flows for partner vs internal traffic
Share reliability maps for incident response
Workflow that ships
List services, endpoints, and gateways with traffic patterns.
Ask AI to draw ingress, gateway, services, and data stores in lanes.
Label SLAs, retries, and auth paths (OIDC, keys, mTLS).
Publish diagrams in runbooks with on-call contacts.
Prompt recipes
Copy, tweak, and save in your repo so regenerations stay consistent.
"Draw API architecture with CDN, WAF, API Gateway, microservices, Postgres, and Redis. Show retries and timeouts."
"Create a GraphQL gateway view with downstream services and schema ownership. Add caching and rate limits."
"Generate partner API flow with auth, quotas, and observability hooks."
Quality checklist
Ingress, gateway, and service tiers are separate.
Auth paths and rate limits are visible.
Retries/timeouts documented on critical edges.
On-call ownership is easy to see.
Why use Datadef
Prompt-to-canvas in seconds
Generate React Flow diagrams from prompts, then tweak nodes, metadata, and z-index with live collaboration.
Always in sync
Save prompts alongside canvas versions so you can regenerate diagrams as schemas, services, or policies change.
Shareable and auditable
Export PNG/SVG for decks, or share live canvases with lineage, SLAs, and runbook links for reviewers.
Built for data teams
Support data mesh, lakehouse, and streaming patterns with typed nodes for tables, pipelines, services, and governance layers.
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FAQ
How do I show async patterns?
Add message queues/topics as separate lanes and label which endpoints publish vs consume.
Do I include error budgets?
Yes. Include SLAs/SLIs on key APIs and note alert thresholds to align SRE and product.
Can AI help during incidents?
Regenerate a dependency view filtered to impacted services to accelerate triage.
Ship faster
Generate your next diagram with AI
Capture the prompt once, regenerate after every schema change, and keep diagrams audit-ready.