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Dashboard

The dashboard is your home page - a customizable, at-a-glance view of your network built from live IPAM, DCIM, and monitoring data for the current tenant.

Reading the dashboard

The page is a mosaic of tiles:

  • Stat tiles - single big numbers you can click through to the full list: IP addresses, prefixes, devices, sites, VLANs, and firing alerts.
  • Chart widgets - breakdowns and gauges, such as reachability, IPs by status or role, prefixes by family, devices by type or site, and your busiest prefixes by utilization. The donut legends and bars are clickable - click a slice or bar to jump to that object's list (e.g. a Devices by type bar → the Devices list).
  • Map widgets - a live OSM map of your sites/devices/cables, and a Floor plan widget that renders one of your floor plans read-only with live tile status (monitoring rings + rack utilisation), each linking to its full page.
  • Certificate widgets - Certificate health (expiry buckets across the whole inventory), Expiring certificates (expired or within 30 days), and Expired certificates (already past expiry). Add them from Add widget.
  • Activity widgets - Changelog (the latest audit changes across the tenant: who changed what, each linking to the full change and out to the audit log) and Recent activity (latest monitoring status changes).
  • Monitoring widgets - Availability (seven days, time reachable over time measured, as a gauge), Alerts per day (opened against resolved, the last seven days), Latency (median and 95th percentile per hour over the week, one check kind at a time, busiest first), Flapping (the checks currently flagged, with a link to confirm them) and Status history (the status strips of the addresses and devices you pick - the same strip and availability figure their Monitoring tabs draw, over 1h to 90d, refreshed every minute; pick them while editing the dashboard - tick several in the picker, or in its advanced search, and add them in one go - up to twelve per widget, and add the widget more than once to watch different sets). Add them from Add widget; all follow the same site scoping as the monitoring pages, and without view on IP addresses they, and Recent activity, stay empty.

Colours come from your own statuses and roles where you've set them, so the charts speak your network's language. A donut fills the tile: in a wide tile the legend sits beside the ring and takes only the width its names need; in a narrow one the ring sits on top and the legend flows underneath.

Every chart segment is a deep link: click a slice or bar (or a legend row) and it opens the matching list already filtered - IPs by status → the IP list for that status, Devices by type → those devices, Firing alerts by severity → the alerts list, and so on. The monitoring Certificate & key health tiles work the same way. The other charts open where their data lives:

  • the Reachability gauge → the checks list, Availability → Explore;
  • an Alerts per day bar → that day's state changes on History;
  • the Latency chart → the Latency view;
  • the SLA widget's budget bar → the agreement. Its white marker is how much of the period has gone: a bar past it is spending the budget faster than time passes. Hover it for both figures.

Over a time frame longer than a week, time axes show the date, not the weekday, so every point has its own label.

Customizing it

Click Edit layout to rearrange; the dashboard stays clean and read-only otherwise. In edit mode each tile gets a drag grip and a remove button.

Action Effect
Edit layout / Done Toggle edit mode on/off.
Add widget Opens a list of widgets you haven't added yet.
Drag the ⠿ handle Move the widget - it snaps to grid cells and the others re-pack live.
Drag the corner grip Resize - also snapping to cells. Each widget has sensible min/max sizes, so the changelog can go full-width (or near full-screen) while a small gauge can't be stretched into empty border.
× on a widget Removes that widget.
Reset Drops your layout: you fall back to the tenant's admin-set default when one exists, else the built-in layout.
Set as new-user default (admins) Saves your current layout as the starting dashboard for new users of the tenant. (Until 0.17 a layout saved this way was ignored and new users got the built-in one.)

Widgets cope with their given size: lists and tables scroll inside the tile, charts sit centred, and the map / floor plan stretch to fill.

Note

Your layout (positions and sizes) is saved to your account, so it follows you across browsers and devices. A layout saved before this existed is picked up from the browser and adopted automatically - nothing resets. New users start from the tenant's admin-set default (if one is set), otherwise the built-in layout.

Named dashboards

Besides your own dashboard, you can build named ones: "Aarhus DC", "Core SLA", the NOC wall. The dashboard title is a switcher. It lists your own dashboard, every named one you can see, and All dashboards (/dashboards), where New dashboard starts one.

A named dashboard has its own layout and settings:

Setting What it does
Who sees it Only you, everyone in the tenant, or chosen groups. You can share with groups you are in; someone who manages users can share with any group.
Time frame 24 hours, 7, 30 or 90 days, for the monitoring charts and the figure widgets.
Refresh When opened, or every 30 seconds up to 15 minutes.
Scope Sites, regions, device roles, device types, tags and SLAs. Widgets that support it show only what matches. Empty means everything.

Only the owner can edit a named dashboard. Anyone who can see one can Duplicate it into a private copy of their own, or pick Open as my dashboard, so that the Dashboard link opens it instead of their own layout. Stop opening this one, or My dashboard in the switcher, goes back. When that dashboard is deleted, the Dashboard link opens their own layout again.

Every widget loads its data with the viewer's permissions, never the owner's. A shared dashboard shows each viewer only what they could already see.

A scope narrows what the widgets count:

  • Devices match on their own site, role, type and tags.
  • Addresses match on their site, their prefix's site or their device's site, and on their device's role and type.
  • Prefixes match on their site and tags.
  • An SLA scope means the addresses of that agreement's members.
  • Monitoring widgets (check status, alerts, availability, latency, flapping, recent activity) follow the scoped addresses.
  • The figure widgets below take the whole scope.
  • Counts of VLANs, VRFs, cables, interfaces, BGP sessions and static routes stay tenant-wide.

TV mode

TV shows the dashboard full screen with nothing else on the page, for a wall display. To cycle through several dashboards, give the URL a list: /dashboards/<id>?tv=1&cycle=<id1>,<id2>,<id3>&every=60. Each dashboard stays up for every seconds, 10 at the least.

Widgets for SLAs and monitoring figures

Widget What it shows
SLA One agreement's figure against its target. A bar shows the error budget spent, with a mark for how much of the period has gone. Pick the agreement while editing; add the widget more than once for several.
SLAs Every active agreement with this period's figure and budget left.
Availability by group Availability per site, role, device type or check type, worst first.
Slowest against normal The checks furthest above their own usual latency.
Coverage How much of the time was measured, overall and per check type.
Maintenance Maintenance and outage events not yet closed, soonest first.

The figure widgets read the rollups, so they cover the whole time frame even beyond the raw results' thirty days.