Dashboard Overview
Learn how to navigate and use the SkySignal dashboard effectively.
Accessing the Dashboard
Visit dash.skysignal.app and log in with your account credentials.
Dashboard Layout
Navigation
The sidebar includes:
- Dashboard - Overview of all sites' health with visualizations
- Sites - List of all your monitored applications
- Uptime - Uptime monitoring and status checks
- Errors - Global error tracking across all sites
- Logs - Centralized log viewer
- Runbooks - Automated incident response playbooks
- Incidents - Active and past incident management
- SLOs - Service Level Objectives tracking
- Settings - Account, billing, team, and integration settings
Dashboard Visualizations
The main dashboard provides several visualizations for a quick read on your fleet:
- Application Heartbeat - An auto-scrolling EKG-style line chart showing real-time application health across your sites
- Request Flow Sankey - A Sankey diagram mapping the flow of requests through your application layers (client, methods, publications, database)
- Site Health Heatmap - A heatmap grid showing health status of all your sites over time
- Anomaly Radar - A radar chart highlighting detected anomalies across key metric dimensions
Site Detail View
When viewing a specific site, you get 17 tabs organized into groups:
Core
| Tab | Description |
|---|---|
| Overview | Health summary, key metrics (response time, error rate, sessions, system resources), and quick-link cards |
| Methods | Meteor Method performance, response times, percentiles, and call volume |
| Database | MongoDB query performance, slow queries, index usage, and throughput |
| HTTP | Outbound HTTP request latency, status codes, and endpoint breakdown |
Real-time
| Tab | Description |
|---|---|
| Pub/Sub | Meteor publication performance and subscriber counts |
| DDP/WS | WebSocket connections, message rates, DDP inspector, and activity feed |
| Live Queries | Reactive query observers: change streams, oplog, and polling efficiency |
| Sessions | Active user sessions, duration, page flow, and session replay |
Reliability
| Tab | Description |
|---|---|
| Errors | Error tracking, stack traces, grouping, and error rate trends |
| Alerts | Alert rules, active incidents, and anomaly detection |
| Jobs | Background job queue (Steve Jobs), execution history, and failures |
Client
| Tab | Description |
|---|---|
| RUM | Real User Monitoring: page load times, Core Web Vitals, and browser metrics |
Observe
| Tab | Description |
|---|---|
| Dependencies | External service health, webhooks, and third-party API status |
| System | CPU, memory, event loop, and server resource utilization |
| Analytics | Custom queries, trend analysis, and data exploration |
| Custom | User-defined custom metrics and instrumentation data |
| Versions | Deployment history, version comparison, and changelogs |
Time Range Selection
Use the time range picker to adjust the data window:
- Last 1 hour - Real-time debugging
- Last 24 hours - Daily patterns (default)
- Last 7 days - Weekly trends
- Last 30 days - Monthly analysis
- Custom range - Specific date/time range
Host Filtering
For multi-server deployments, filter data by host:
- Click the Host dropdown
- Select a specific host or "All Hosts"
- All charts and tables update automatically
Key Metrics
Response Time
- Average - Mean response time
- p50 - Median (50th percentile)
- p95 - 95th percentile
- p99 - 99th percentile
Error Rate
Percentage of requests that resulted in an error.
Throughput
Number of requests per unit time (requests/second or requests/minute).
Charts and Visualizations
Time Series Charts
- Hover over data points for exact values
- Click and drag to zoom into a time range
- Double-click to reset zoom
Tables
- Click column headers to sort
- Use search/filter to find specific items
- Click rows for detailed information
Real-Time Updates
The dashboard updates automatically:
- Overview metrics refresh every 10 seconds
- Charts update with new data points
- Error counts update in real-time
Keyboard Shortcuts
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
? | Show keyboard shortcuts |
g then d | Go to Dashboard |
g then m | Go to Methods |
g then e | Go to Errors |
r | Refresh data |
Next Steps
- Methods View - Deep dive into Method monitoring
- Errors View - Understanding error tracking
- Setting Up Alerts - Get notified of issues