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David Spitzer edited this page 2026-10-14 15:04:05 -07:00
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Dense View

Purpose

The dense view is the dashboard's default page at /. It is an operations console for a work screen: as much status as will fit, with healthy things quiet and problems loud. Blue means normal and red means a problem, and every state also has a shape and a word (▪ OK, ▲ WARN, ■ DOWN) so color is never the only signal.

Dense view with three problems

The screenshot uses the built-in demo data (DASHBOARD_DEMO=warn), never real hosts.

What Is On The Page

  • Top bar. Title, a search box, the live connection state and clock, and buttons for the other views: Wall, Classic, Admin (admins only) and sign out. A red DEMO DATA badge appears when demo mode is on.
  • Alert strip. Every active alert, with its level, the service and the full message. Up to six are listed, then a count.
  • Service rows, grouped as Compute, Storage, Network, Downloads, Media and Services. Each row has a status glyph, the name, the headline metric, a detail line (the problem when there is one), a response-time sparkline and the age of the last poll. Problem rows are tinted red; healthy rows stay dim.
  • Capacity panel. The fullest storage volumes, as bars. A volume over its warning threshold turns red.
  • Timeline. The most recent status changes.

Expanding A Row

Click a row, or focus it and press Enter or Space, to expand it.

Dense view with the Proxmox and Storage rows expanded

  • Proxmox: every node's CPU and memory, guests running, and backup coverage with the newest and oldest backup and the age limit.
  • Storage Health: every volume with a usage bar, free space, temperature and healthy-disk count.
  • UniFi Network: devices, access points and clients (wireless, wired, guest), which devices are offline, and the WAN line.
  • Plex: who is watching what, and whether it is transcoding.
  • Uptime Kuma: every monitor as a chip; problems turn solid red.
  • Everything else: the detail rows the integration reported, with links when they provide a URL.

Keyboard

Key Action
/ Focus the search box.
Esc Clear and leave the search box.
Enter / Space Expand or collapse the focused row.

Search matches service names, headline metrics, notes and every check name and detail, so typing a monitor or volume name finds the service it belongs to.

When Data Stops

The state in the top bar changes from LIVE to STALE after 30 seconds without an update. After two minutes a red NO LIVE DATA banner appears across the top. The page reconnects by itself.

Other Views

  • Wallboard (/wall) is the same data on a fixed 1920 x 1080 canvas for a wall-mounted TV.
  • The original card dashboard is still available at /classic, with card layouts, theme presets, the diagnostics drawer and Seerr search. It has a Dense view button to come back.
  • Lab View is the wall-board mode of that classic dashboard.

Not In The Dense View Yet

Seerr search and request, card layouts and the diagnostics drawer. Use /classic for those until they are added; the Roadmap tracks this.