Dashboard tour

The dashboard is a single-page app built into the dnz binary. It works offline (no fonts or icons from a CDN), supports light and dark mode, and moves its menu to a bottom dock on phones.

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The top bar

From left to right:

• DNZ logo: back to the Overview.
• Division switcher: the division you’re working in. Zones, members, tokens and logs follow it. You only see the divisions you’re assigned to; superadmins see them all.
• The menu: Overview, Topology, DNS, Proxy, Access, Settings.
• Find (⌘K on macOS, Ctrl+K elsewhere): jump to any page, zone or setting by typing.
• Health (superadmins): whether the forward DNS upstreams are up, which one is resolving now and which takes over next.
• Create New: a zone, user, role, division or notification provider, depending on what you may do.
• Incidents (superadmins): upstream outages and recoveries.
• Account menu: account settings (profile, password, signed-in sessions), the theme (System, Light or Dark), sign out, and About DNZ with the version.

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The menu

What you see depends on your role. Sections you can’t use are hidden.

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Overview

The landing page sums up the current division:

• Traffic: queries over the chosen range (24 hours to 90 days), with answered, NXDOMAIN and SERVFAIL counts.
• Top names and clients, each linking into the query log.
• Request flow: how queries travel from clients through filtering, the cache and forwarding rules to the upstreams. With proxying on, a Proxy tab shows visitors → each proxy → its routers and middlewares → services → upstreams.
• Zones: a card per zone.
• Recent queries.
• Alerts: recent upstream outages.

Superadmins also see forward DNS monitoring and server usage. See Monitoring.

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