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Watchdog Dashboard ​

The Watchdog Dashboard provides real-time monitoring and health metrics for all services registered with the Watchdog service. It gives administrators a quick overview of overall system health and per-service availability.

Watchdog Dashboard

Overview ​

URL: /admin/watchdog-dashboard

The dashboard summarizes the state of all monitored services and is the primary entry point for service health observability in AdminBolt.

Actions ​

  • Refresh - Reloads metrics and service status data.

Health Summary Cards ​

The top of the page displays a row of summary cards:

  • Overall Health - Aggregated system status (e.g., Healthy, Degraded, Unhealthy).
  • Monitored Services - Total number of services registered with Watchdog.
  • Total Checks - Cumulative number of health checks performed.
  • Average Uptime - Mean uptime percentage across all services.
  • Needs Attention - Number of services currently in a non-healthy state.
  • Auto Restart - Counts of services with auto-restart enabled vs disabled.

Settings Summary ​

A read-only summary of the active Watchdog configuration:

  • Watchdog Enabled - Whether the Watchdog service is active.
  • Check Interval - Frequency of service checks (in seconds).
  • History Limit - Maximum number of historical records retained.
  • Uptime History Limit - Maximum number of uptime history records retained.

To change these values, use Watchdog Settings.

Monitored Services Table ​

Below the summary, a table lists every registered service with the following columns:

  • Service Name - Name of the service (e.g., httpd, mariadb, postfix, sshd).
  • Status - Current state (Active, Inactive).
  • Uptime - Percentage uptime over the tracked window.
  • Checks - Total checks performed, broken down into active and inactive counts.
  • Auto Restart - Whether auto-restart is enabled for this service.
  • Last Checked - Time of the most recent check and the absolute timestamp.