---
title: Dashboard
description: Real-time system stats, historical metrics, and a quick-start converter for your host machine.
---

The **Home** tab is the first thing you see after logging in. It shows a live snapshot of your host's health alongside container activity across all stacks.

<Frame>
  <img src="/images/dashboard/dashboard-overview.png" alt="Sencho dashboard showing container stats, system stats, and historical charts" />
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## Container stats

The top row summarises container state at a glance:

| Card | What it shows |
|------|---------------|
| **Active Containers** | Running containers — broken down as `N managed · N external` |
| **Exited Containers** | Stopped or crashed containers |
| **Docker Network** | Current inbound/outbound network throughput across all containers |

**Managed** means the container belongs to a stack in your `COMPOSE_DIR`. **External** means it exists on the Docker host but was started outside Sencho (e.g. by another Compose project or `docker run`).

## System stats

The second row shows host-level resource usage, polled every few seconds:

| Card | What it shows |
|------|---------------|
| **Host CPU** | Current CPU usage percentage and core count |
| **Host RAM** | Used / total memory in GB and percentage |
| **Host Disk** | Used / total disk space for the primary mount point |

When any value exceeds configured thresholds (set in **Settings → System Limits**), the card changes colour as a visual warning.

## Historical metrics charts

Two area charts display time-series data sampled at one-minute intervals, retained for up to 24 hours (configurable in **Settings → Developer**):

- **Normalized CPU Usage** — total CPU percentage across all managed containers, normalised over all host cores
- **Normalized RAM Usage** — total memory allocated by managed containers, in GB

The x-axis shows time labels. Hover over a data point to see the exact value at that moment.

<Note>
  Charts only show data from the moment Sencho started. If you just installed Sencho, they will be mostly empty until metrics accumulate.
</Note>

## Convert `docker run` to Compose

The bottom panel provides a quick converter: paste any `docker run` command and Sencho transforms it into a valid `docker-compose.yaml` snippet.

```bash
# Example input
docker run -d --name myapp -p 8080:80 -e TZ=UTC -v /data:/app/data nginx:latest
```

Click **Convert** and the output YAML appears ready to copy. You can then create a new stack and paste it into the editor.

This is useful when migrating existing containers to managed Compose stacks without having to write YAML by hand.
