The Webscale Control Panel Dashboard

A Brief Overview of the Webscale Control Panel Dashboard

The dashboard is the home page of the Webscale Control Panel and is displayed when you first log in. The dashboard contains links to other important areas of the control panel and includes some essential information about your Webscale account and applications.

Webscale Control Panel Dashboard

The main navigation bar contains a dropdown menu at the name of the current account - this allows you to choose from the accounts you have with Webscale if you have more than one. Next to this is the gear, which is where you will find the following links:

Gear Menu
  • Account Settings: Click here to go to the control panel page to adjust account settings.

  • Legacy UI: Click here to be taken to the legacy control panel.

  • Documentation : Click here to open the Webscale Documentation in a new window.

  • Get support: Click here to view information about how to contact Webscale Support.

  • Logout: Click here to log out of the control panel.

The main navigation menu also contains a timer icon and a user icon.

  • Click on the timer icon to show the Task Monitor. This shows any tasks that have run in the last 24 hours, and whether they completed or not. Click the Zoom button to go to the full Task Monitor page.
  • Click on the user icon to visit the user preferences page. Use the User Editor to make changes to the current user, and click the Access Keys tab to view existing API keys or create a new one.

Page Contents

Under the main navigation bar, the page has several boxes displayed. From left to right, top to bottom, these are:

Data transfer Displays the data transfer used by the current account. Contains a daily total and the total for the current month.
Sessions Displays a count of user sessions for the current account. Contains a daily total and the total for the current month.
Page Views Displays the page views for the current account. Contains a daily total and the total for the current month.
Latest News Displays links to recent articles about Webscale on the internet, including an excerpt from the article. Click the Read More button to visit the Webscale Media Coverage page.
Billing Displays the current amount due, the due date, and the amount and date the last payment was received.
Events Displays the most recent events reported for the account. Click the Zoom button to get more detailed information about these events.
On the Events page, you can also click Search to search the events, and click Time to view events for a specific time frame. Click Dashboard on the upper left to return.
Application Boxes The top of the application box contains the hostname of the application, as well as icons indicating the status of the application’s SSL and the Webscale Shield. Mouse over either icon for more information.
Click the Zoom button to go to the control panel for the application. Click the 3 vertical dots to display a menu showing many of the options that are also on the application’s control panel. The application boxes also display some information about your applications at a glance, including:
  • Webscale hostname
  • Uptime
  • Scaling, Requests per Second, and Response Time graphs showing the last 24 hours.
  • Whether the application is currently running or not.
  • Cache miss rate displayed as a percentage.
  • Servers displayed as icons - mouse over each icon to get the IP address of the server.
From the Blog Displays links to the latest posts on the Webscale Blog. Click the Read More button to visit the Webscale Blog.

Application Box actions menu

Click the 3 vertical dots on the upper right corner of the Application box to display the actions menu for your Application.

Application Box actions menu
  • Diagnose: Click here to go to the diagnose panel for the application.
    Displays diagnostic information about the application.
    Probes shows the current status of some application metrics.
    Events will display the events log page for the application.

  • Edit: Click here to go to a panel to edit various settings for your application.

  • Advanced Edit: Click here to go to the advanced edit panel for the application.

  • Traffic Viewer: Click here to go to the Traffic Viewer.

  • CSP Reports: Click here to go to the CSP Reports viewer.

  • View Configuration: Click here to view the current configuration details for this application.

  • Flush Caches: Click here to flush the site and Pagespeed caches.

  • Start maintenance: Click here to put the application into maintenance mode.

  • Enable shield: Click here to enable shield mode.

  • Whitelist: Click here to view and configure the whitelist.

  • Blacklist: Click here to view and configure the blacklist.

Further Reading

Have questions not answered here? Please Contact Support to get more help.


Last modified July 10, 2020