Dashboard
Overview
The dashboard is what you see when you sign in. It is built from widgets you choose and arrange yourself.
Your layout is saved per user, per account. Changing yours does not affect colleagues, and if you belong to several accounts each gets its own layout.
Customising
Click Customize Widgets in the dashboard header. Add, remove and reorder widgets, then save.
Each widget has a Size:
| Size | Width |
|---|---|
| Extra Small | 1 column |
| Small | 2 columns |
| Medium | 3 columns |
| Large | 4 columns |
| Full | Full width |
The grid is 8 columns wide on a large screen and reflows on smaller ones.
Available widgets
Welcome
Your account name and a summary. Useful if you switch between several accounts.
Monitors Overview
Counts by status across your monitors, with a toggle for each type: Servers, Sites, Pings, Ports, Heartbeats, Blacklists and Workstations.
INFO
Workstations are off by default in this widget. If you use workstation monitoring, turn them on here or they will not appear on your dashboard at all.
Incidents
One widget per monitor type — Server, Workstation, Site, Ping, Port, Heartbeat and Blacklist incidents — showing recent and ongoing incidents for that type.
Single-monitor widgets
Pin one specific monitor to the dashboard: Server, Workstation, Site, Ping, Port, Heartbeat or Blacklist.
Server widgets also take a Metric — CPU Usage, Average Load or RAM Usage.
Chart widgets
A chart for one monitor over time: Server Chart (again with a Metric selector), Site Chart, Ping Chart and Port Chart.
The default layout
An unconfigured dashboard shows:
- Welcome (full width)
- Monitors Overview (full width)
- Server, Site, Ping and Port Incidents (half width each)
Building a useful dashboard
The temptation is to add everything. Resist it — a dashboard showing forty widgets tells you nothing at a glance, which is the only thing a dashboard is for.
A layout that works well:
- Monitors Overview at the top, full width. One glance answers "is anything wrong?"
- Incident widgets for the types you actually run.
- A handful of single-monitor or chart widgets for the two or three services that matter most.
TIP
If a widget has never once told you something you did not know, remove it. Everything on the dashboard competes for attention with everything else.
Other ways to see status
- Monitor lists — filter by status to see everything currently down. Lists refresh every 10 seconds.
- Global search — jump straight to a monitor by name.
- Status pages — the public view, also handy as a shared internal overview.
- Uptime reports — the weekly and monthly view, delivered by email.