Dashboards and the AI assistant

Dashboards

A dashboard is a board of charts you put together yourself. You find it under Launchpad → Frontend → Dashboard. Each chart is pinned from the page it belongs to. Press 📌 on a host, a service, a synthetic check, an application or a database chart, and it lands on your board. A pin redraws from its source page's own data, so it is always current. If its source is gone, its card says so.

• You can have several boards, up to 50. The chips above the board switch between them, and + New adds one.
• Click a board's name to rename it. Enter saves and Esc cancels.
• The badge beside the name switches the board between private and shared. A shared board is visible to the members of your organisation, labelled with your name.
• ✕ deletes the board and its pins, after asking.
• Each card has open → to go to its source. On your own board, it also has unpin.

Only the owner can change a board: rename it, share it, unpin from it or delete it. Pins go only onto your own boards. On a shared board, a reader does not see pins for things their account cannot open.

The AI assistant

AI assist in the menu opens a panel beside whatever page you are on. Ask it in your own words, in your own language. "Which services got slower since yesterday?" "What is wrong with web-1?" "Show me replays of sessions that failed at checkout." It answers from tools that read your install's own data, under your account's access. It cannot see anything you could not open yourself. If an answer needs access you do not have, it tells you to ask an administrator.

Its tools read:

• open problems and a ticket's context;
• applications, machines, services and dashboards;
• traffic and machine health;
• logs, recent calls and replays;
• synthetic checks and error budgets;
• database load and the security overview;
• IoT devices, mobile crashes from Sentry, and workflows;
• the data flow, technologies, and where things are.

Each tool needs the matching capability. Without Security, for example, it cannot read the security overview.

Changes are buttons

The assistant never changes anything by itself. When a change would help, it offers it as a button whose text says exactly what will happen, and nothing happens until you press it. It can:

• create a dashboard, private or shared with your organisation;
• pin a host or a service to one of your dashboards;
• set an application's two slow lines, Fine up to and Critical above. This needs the Install capability.

The button is checked again on the server when you press it.

Setting it up

The assistant needs a model that holds the "Talks to you" job. The install's administrator sets that up under Settings → AI. See AI reading. It is for signed-in people only, never for API keys. Keep in mind that its answers are built from your data. When it searches logs, the matching log lines are part of what is sent to the model.