Dashboard

The dashboard is the landing page you see after logging in. It gives you a high-level view of your observability pipeline health across the selected environment, with real-time metrics, fleet status, and interactive charts.

KPI summary cards

The top of the dashboard displays five summary cards that provide an at-a-glance overview of your environment.

Log reduction percentage

The Log Reduction card shows how effectively your pipelines are filtering and transforming data before it reaches your sinks. The formula is:

reduction % = (1 - eventsOut / eventsIn) * 100

• A higher percentage means more data is being filtered, sampled, or deduplicated by your transforms before reaching downstream destinations.
• The value is clamped to 0% minimum -- if your pipeline produces more events than it receives (e.g. through event splitting), the card shows 0% rather than a negative number.
• The card also displays the raw events-per-second rates for both input and output so you can see absolute throughput.
• Color coding provides quick visual feedback: green for reductions above 50%, amber for 10--50%, and neutral for lower values.

Metrics filter bar

Below the summary cards, a filter bar lets you narrow down the charts displayed on the dashboard.

• Time range -- Choose from 1 hour, 6 hours, 1 day, or 7 days. The selected window controls both the data shown in the charts and the automatic refresh interval.
• Pipeline filter -- Select one or more pipelines to focus on. When no pipelines are selected, all deployed pipelines in the environment are shown.
• Node filter -- Select specific agent nodes. Filtering by node automatically restricts the pipeline list to pipelines running on those nodes, and vice versa.
• Group by -- Choose how chart series are broken down:
  • Pipeline -- one series per pipeline (default)
  • Node -- one series per agent node
  • Aggregate -- a single "Total" series combining all pipelines and nodes

Pipeline metrics charts

The Pipeline Metrics section includes three charts:

• Events In/Out per Second -- Shows the rate of events entering your sources and leaving your sinks. Comparing the two lines reveals how much data your transforms are reducing.
• Bytes In/Out per Second -- The same comparison in bytes, useful for understanding bandwidth and storage impact.
• Errors & Discarded -- An area chart showing error rates and discarded event rates. A spike here may indicate a misconfigured transform or an unreachable sink.

System metrics charts

The System Metrics section shows resource utilization for the agent nodes in your environment:

• CPU Usage -- Percentage of CPU consumed by each Vector agent. Capped at 100%.
• Memory Usage -- Percentage of available memory used by each agent.
• Disk I/O -- Read and write throughput in bytes per second.
• Network I/O -- Receive (Rx) and transmit (Tx) throughput in bytes per second.

When Group by is set to Aggregate, CPU and memory are averaged across nodes while disk and network rates are summed.

Auto-refresh

Dashboard data refreshes automatically based on the selected time range:

Pipeline status cards also poll every 15 seconds regardless of the selected time range, so you will see status changes (Running, Stopped, Crashed) promptly.

Analytics

The Analytics page (accessible from the sidebar) provides a deeper breakdown of pipeline volume metrics compared to the dashboard summary.

KPI cards

The analytics page displays four KPI cards with trend indicators comparing the current period to the previous period:

Each card shows a trend arrow indicating whether the metric increased or decreased compared to the previous period. For reduction metrics, an upward trend (more reduction) is shown in green.

Per-pipeline table

Below the KPI cards, a sortable table shows per-pipeline volume breakdown:

Click any column header to sort the table. The time range filter at the top controls the aggregation window.

Custom dashboard views

You can create personalized dashboard views that display only the panels you care about. Custom views are saved per-user and persist across sessions.

Creating a view

Arranging panels

Custom view panels support drag-and-drop reordering and resizing.

1. Click the Editing Layout button (lock icon) in the top-right corner of the view to unlock the layout.
2. Drag any panel by its header to reposition it within the grid.
3. Resize a panel by dragging its bottom-right corner handle.
4. Click Layout Locked to lock the layout and prevent accidental changes.

Layout changes are saved automatically. Each user's layout is independent — rearranging panels does not affect other users.

Switching views

The tab bar at the top of the dashboard shows all your custom views alongside the Default view. Click any tab to switch to that view. Each custom view has its own time range picker and filter bar for any chart panels it includes.

Editing and deleting views

Hover over a custom view tab to reveal the edit and delete icons. Click the pencil icon to update the view name or panel selection, or click the trash icon to remove the view.