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Version: 4.x

Workbench

Overview​

After logging in you land on the Workbench. It consists of system announcements, quick navigation links and a to-do list, and is meant to share information with the team and collect frequently used entry points. The Dashboard shows the overall state of the platform in charts.

Workbench

Announcements​

Administrators click Edit in the card header to create, modify or delete announcements.

  • Title / Content: multi-line text is supported.
  • Popup reminder: when enabled, the announcement pops up for every user on login; only one announcement can be a popup.

Quick navigation​

Collect links the team uses every day, such as monitoring dashboards, code repositories or the wiki. Administrators click Edit and then New:

  • Icon: an image smaller than 100 KB, stored directly in the database.
  • Title / Description: shown on the card.
  • Links: one card can hold several links (three at most is recommended), for example the test and production instance of the same system.

To-do​

Items that need your attention, such as deploy requests waiting for review. Click an item to jump straight to it.

Dashboard​

The Dashboard counts applications, hosts, tasks and monitors and shows two charts: Alert trend (filterable by monitor) and Top 20 deploy requests (today / this week / this month). Regular users need the Dashboard permission in their role.

Dashboard

From left to right the icons in the top-right corner are:

  • Notifications: deploy reviews, failed scheduled tasks, failed alert deliveries and other system events are shown as in-app notifications; read notifications older than a week are removed automatically.
  • Web terminal: opens the web terminal in a new window.
  • Language: switch between English and Simplified Chinese; the choice is stored in the browser.
  • Profile: change your name, set your WeChat token, change your password, or Log out.

Profile