Navigating the Fleet Health Dashboard

The Fleet Health Dashboard serves as your central command centre for monitoring all servers in your Server Scout environment. This comprehensive view provides instant visibility into your infrastructure's health, allowing you to quickly identify issues and manage your entire server fleet from a single interface.

Understanding the Fleet Health Banner

At the top of your dashboard, you'll find the fleet health banner displaying four key metrics:

• Online: Servers reporting normally with no critical issues
• Warning: Servers with alerts that require attention but aren't critical
• Offline: Servers that haven't reported data within the expected timeframe
• Paused: Servers where monitoring has been temporarily disabled

These counters provide an immediate overview of your infrastructure's status. Click any counter to quickly filter your view to servers in that specific state.

Using Status Filter Tabs

Below the fleet health banner, you'll see filter tabs corresponding to each server status. These tabs allow you to:

1. View all servers regardless of status
2. Filter to only online servers
3. Show servers with warnings that need investigation
4. Display offline servers requiring immediate attention
5. Review paused servers

Simply click the relevant tab to update your server list. The active tab is highlighted, making it clear which filter you're currently viewing.

Sorting Your Server List

The dashboard offers several sorting options to help you prioritise your attention:

• Name: Alphabetical sorting for easy server identification
• CPU: Sort by current CPU utilisation to identify performance bottlenecks
• Memory: Arrange by RAM usage to spot memory-constrained servers
• Disk: Order by disk space usage to prevent storage issues
• Load: Sort by system load average to identify overloaded servers

Click any column header to sort by that metric. Click again to reverse the sort order. This functionality is particularly useful during incident response when you need to quickly identify the most resource-constrained servers.

Active Alerts Banner

When unresolved alerts exist across your fleet, an active alerts banner appears prominently on the dashboard. This banner shows:

• The total number of unresolved alerts
• A breakdown by severity level
• Quick access to the alerts management page

Click the banner to navigate directly to detailed alert information, allowing you to triage and resolve issues efficiently.

Searching and Filtering Servers

The search functionality helps you quickly locate specific servers in large fleets:

1. Use the search box to filter servers by hostname
2. Search supports partial matches - typing "web" will show all servers with "web" in their name
3. Combine search with status filters for more precise results
4. Clear the search box to return to the full server list

This feature is invaluable when managing dozens or hundreds of servers, allowing you to jump directly to the systems you need to investigate.

Understanding Server Cards

Each server is displayed as a card containing essential information at a glance:

• Server name: The hostname and current status indicator
• CPU usage: Percentage of processor utilisation
• Memory usage: RAM consumption as a percentage and absolute values
• Disk usage: Storage utilisation for the primary filesystem
• Load average: System load over the last minute
• Uptime: How long the server has been running
• Last seen: When the server last reported data

Status indicators use colour coding: green for healthy, amber for warnings, and red for critical issues or offline servers.

Customising Your Default View

Server Scout allows you to personalise your dashboard experience:

1. Set your preferred default sorting option
2. Choose which status filter to display by default
3. Configure the number of servers shown per page
4. Save your preferred card layout density

These settings persist across sessions, ensuring your dashboard always opens with your preferred configuration.

The Fleet Health Dashboard transforms server monitoring from a reactive task into a proactive management tool. By understanding these features and customising them to match your workflow, you'll be able to maintain optimal server performance and respond quickly to any issues that arise across your infrastructure.