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title: Dashboard
description: Real-time system stats, stack health, historical metrics, and recent alerts for your host machine.
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The **Home** tab is the first thing you see after logging in. It provides a live overview of your node's health, resource usage, stack status, and recent alert activity.
## Health status bar
The top bar provides an at-a-glance health assessment for the active node. Sencho evaluates CPU, RAM, disk usage, exited containers, and unread error alerts to derive one of three states:
| Status | Meaning |
|--------|---------|
| **Healthy** | All systems nominal. No resources above warning thresholds, no unread errors. |
| **Degraded** | At least one resource is above 80%, or there are unread error alerts. |
| **Critical** | At least one resource is above 90%, or there are exited containers with unread errors. |
The bar also shows the active node name, the number of running containers, the current alert count, and a relative timestamp for the last data refresh.
## Resource gauges
Five compact cards display real-time host and container metrics:
| Card | What it shows |
|------|---------------|
| **CPU** | Current CPU usage percentage, core count, and a color-coded gauge bar |
| **Memory** | RAM usage percentage, used/total in GB, and a gauge bar |
| **Disk** | Disk usage percentage, used/total for the primary mount, and a gauge bar |
| **Containers** | Active container count (hover to see managed vs. external breakdown) and exited count |
| **Network** | Current RX (receive) and TX (transmit) throughput in bytes/second |
Gauge bars turn yellow at 80% usage and red at 90%.
## Stack health table
A table listing every stack in your `COMPOSE_DIR` with live status and resource usage:
| Column | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| **Stack** | Stack name (derived from the directory name) |
| **Status** | `UP` (running) or `DN` (exited) |
| **CPU** | Aggregate CPU usage across all containers in the stack, normalized over host cores |
| **Memory** | Total memory allocated by the stack's containers |
Click any row to navigate directly to that stack's editor. Stacks are sorted with running stacks first, then alphabetically. If you have more than 8 stacks, the table paginates automatically.
## Historical metrics charts
Two area charts display time-series data sampled at one-minute intervals, retained for up to 24 hours:
- **CPU Usage** - normalized total CPU percentage across all managed containers over host cores
- **RAM Usage** - total memory allocated by managed containers, in GB
Hover over a data point to see the exact value at that moment.
Charts only show data from the moment Sencho started collecting. If you just installed Sencho, they will be mostly empty until metrics accumulate.
## Recent alerts
The bottom section displays triggered alert notifications sorted by recency. Each entry shows the severity level (info, warning, or error), the alert message, and a relative timestamp.
Use the **Clear All Notifications** button to dismiss all alerts. If you have more than 8 alerts, the list paginates.
Alert thresholds are configured per stack in **Settings > Notifications**. See [Alerts & Notifications](/features/alerts-notifications) for setup details.