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Status Indicators
Dashy has an optional feature that can display a small icon next to each of your running services, indicating it's current status. This is useful if you are using Dashy as your homelab's start page, as it gives you an overview of the health of each of your running services.
Enabling Status Indicators
By default, this feature is off. If you do not want this feature, just don't add the statusCheck to your conf.yml file, then no requests will be made.
To enable status checks, you can either turn it on for all items, by setting appConfig.statusCheck: true, like:
appConfig:
statusCheck: true
Or you can enable/ disable it on a per-item basis, with the item[n].statusCheck attribute
sections:
- name: Firewall
items:
- title: OPNsense
description: Firewall Central Management
icon: networking/opnsense.png
url: https://192.168.1.1
statusCheck: false
- title: MalTrail
description: Malicious traffic detection system
icon: networking/maltrail.png
url: http://192.168.1.1:8338
statusCheck: true
- title: Ntopng
description: Network traffic probe and network use monitor
icon: networking/ntop.png
url: http://192.168.1.1:3001
statusCheck: true
How it Works
When Dashy is loaded, items with statusCheck enabled will make a request, to https://[your-host-name]/ping?url=[address-or-servce], which in turn will ping that running service, and respond with a status code. Response time is calculated from the difference between start and end time of the request.
An indicator will display next to each item, and will be yellow while waiting for the response to return, green if request was successful, red if it failed, and grey if it was unable to make the request all together.
All requests are made straight from your server, there is no intermediary. So providing you are hosting Dashy yourself, and are checking the status of other self-hosted services, there shouldn't be any privacy concerns.