Your dashboard

Open DomainDash and you land on your sites dashboard. It's the single screen that answers two questions: is anything wrong right now, and what should I check next.

The page is titled Your sites in the app. Dashboard is shorthand for the same view in this guide.

The "all sites" summary

Top-left of the grid is a single card that summarises everything below it. It changes depending on whether you have anything to act on.

When everything's healthy

You'll see an All sites healthy pill, your total site count, and 7-day aggregate uptime. If a renewal is approaching, the card adds an On the horizon line (for example, "Next renewal: example.com in 30 days").

When something needs your attention

The card switches into watch mode. Instead of the pill, you'll see a Watch list of up to three items at the top, each in plain English:

• "Security on example.com renews in 3 days"
• "acme.com has been responding slowly for the last 2 hours"
• "api.acme.com is down"

If there are more than three, a + N more link takes you to a filtered view. Below the watch list you'll find a Sites / Healthy / Needs attention count grid and the same 7-day aggregate uptime.

The watch list is cautious about what it includes. It uses the same severity rules as the per-site cards (SSL and domain expiries tighten as the deadline approaches, slowness has to persist), so a 5-minute blip won't show up here.

Each site, on its own card

Every other tile in the grid is one site. Each card shows:

• Favicon and domain so you can spot the site you're looking for

• Status badge — the most pressing thing about the site, such as Down or Needs attention (real-time, no need to refresh). A healthy site has no badge

• Response sparkline — a quick 7-day trend so you can tell whether a slow result is one-off or a pattern

• 7-day uptime with a small trend delta showing whether things are getting better or worse

• SSL and domain renewal callouts when an expiry is close enough to matter

• Open incident indicator if there's an active incident on that site

Click anywhere on a card to open the site detail page for response times, SSL, DNS, and registration in detail.

The three-dot menu in the top-right of each card has per-site shortcuts for Settings, Move to group (or Move to another group if it's already in one), Remove from group when the site is in a group, and Remove.

Status indicators

Each card shows one badge: the most pressing thing about that site. When more than one row applies, the one higher in the table wins. A healthy site shows no badge.

Badge	What it means
Paused	Checks are paused for this site, so DomainDash isn't watching it right now. You'll see this when you pause a site yourself, or after a trial ends and the Free plan pauses sites over its limit.
Down	The site isn't responding, is returning an error or a response that doesn't match the Expected response you chose, or has failed a content check. The badge shows from the first failed check. DomainDash opens an incident and alerts you on your configured channels once it's confirmed.
Security expired	The site's SSL certificate has expired.
Security problem	The SSL certificate is invalid for another reason.
Setup failed	A new site's first checks couldn't complete.
Alert	The site has an open incident of any kind.
Needs attention	The site is still responding, but slowly: a response took 1000ms or more.
Renews · N days / Expired	The certificate or domain is within 30 days of expiry, or has expired.
Pending	A new site that's waiting for its first results.

Only the uptime check can make a site Down. Certificate, DNS, and domain problems by themselves show as the other badges above. If the secure connection fails outright (a failed TLS handshake), the uptime check fails too and the site shows Down. DNS has no badge of its own: a DNS problem shows as Alert once it has opened an incident.

If a site has an active incident, the card shows a pulsing badge.

Filtering, sorting, and grouping

A filter bar above the grid keeps things manageable as your site list grows.

• Health pills — a row of pills lets you narrow the grid by status: All, Healthy, Needs attention, and Down. Each pill shows a live count of how many sites are in that bucket. A Paused pill appears too, but only when you have paused sites. Tap a pill to filter; tap All to clear.
• Group pills — your site groups appear as pills on the same row, each with its own count. Tap one to filter the grid to that group. There's also a New group button at the end (if you can manage sites) to create a group on the spot.
• Sort — a sort control on the right lets you choose how the cards are ordered: by most recent incidents, newest first, worst uptime, slowest response, or alphabetically.

The Needs attention pill and the Needs attention badge work differently. A site gets the badge as soon as a response takes 1000ms or more. The pill counts a site once it has been responding slowly for over an hour, along with Down sites, certificate problems, certificates and domains expiring within 30 days, and open incidents. See filtering your dashboard for what it includes.

To find a specific site by domain, use the command palette: press ⌘+K (or Ctrl+K) and start typing a domain.

The "all sites" summary at the top-left adapts as you filter, so a group view gives you the summary for that group.

On mobile

On smaller screens the cards stack into a single column and the navigation moves to a bottom bar so you can switch between sites, incidents, and settings with your thumb. The watch list on the "all sites" card stays in the same place, so the most urgent thing is still the first thing you see when you open the app.

Empty state

If you haven't added any sites yet, the dashboard shows an Add your first site button and a quick reminder of what DomainDash checks: uptime, response time, SSL certificates, DNS, and domain expiry.

Frequently asked questions

What does each status badge on a site card mean?

A card's badge shows the most pressing thing about its site. Down means the site isn't responding, is returning an error or a response that doesn't match the Expected response you chose, or has failed a content check. Security expired and Security problem mean the SSL certificate has expired or is invalid. Alert means the site has an open incident. Needs attention means the site is responding slowly. Renews · N days means a certificate or domain expires within 30 days. Paused means checks are switched off for that site. A healthy site shows no badge.

How do I find a specific site on my dashboard?

Use the command palette: press ⌘+K (or Ctrl+K) and start typing a domain. You can also narrow the grid with the health pills and group pills in the filter bar above your sites, or use the sort control to reorder the cards.

Why isn't a Paused pill showing in my filter bar?

The Paused pill only appears when you have one or more paused sites. That happens when you pause a site yourself, or after a trial ends and the Free plan pauses sites over its limit.

How quickly do results appear after I add a site?

Results start appearing within a few seconds of adding a site. Give it a couple of minutes to build up enough data to populate the sparklines.

Related

• Adding and removing sites to manage what shows up on your dashboard
• Site detail page to dive into one site's response times, SSL, DNS, and registration
• Organising with groups for keeping a long site list tidy