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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.

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  <img src="/images/dashboard/dashboard-overview.png" alt="Sencho dashboard showing health status, resource gauges, stack health table, and historical charts" />
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## 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.

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

## 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.
