What are Dashboards?

At StatusCake we offer lots of options in terms of reporting, from our Public Reporting pages which display information on our uptime tests – to our detailed email reports which give a summary of uptime over a defined time period. Our newest reporting tool comes in the form of “Dashboards” which are live displays designed for big office screens that can show the status of all of your critical tests.

With Dashboards we aren’t limited just to Uptime Test –  for these you can add tests of any type, including : Page Speed Checks, Domain Checks, SSL Checks, Server Monitors and Virus Scan results! Each test/check is added to the screen as a card and you’ll have complete freedom on the Business plan upwards as to how many tests can be added, and how many dashboards can be created.

Dashboards are highly configurable, with the option to auto-refresh at a set period, you can also choose which categories of tests are displayed by default, so if you wanted to only see tests that are having a problem – this is fully possible!

How do I set up a Dashboard?

From inside the StatusCake app you can start this process by clicking the “Dashboards” link in the left menu, or by going here. Once you have reached this page you’ll see a summary of any previously added dashboards as well as the option to make a new one with the “Create Dashboard” button.

Clicking the button will instantly produce a pop up asking you to name your new dashboard, after this you’ll be taken to a screen where settings can be configured. Here we want to select the tests which should be added to our Dashboard page, we can do this either by selecting the tests individually, or by selecting a tag which
will add a group of tests.

Once you have selected which tests should be displayed on the Dashboard you can then proceed to click the “Add Tests” button. This will finalize the page, and from this point you can access it to view the data!

What do the error states mean

You can find definitions for the different states per test type below: