Dashboard Overview
The EmberNet dashboard is the single web console for operating your fleet, covering every edge site, device, app, network policy, and alert in one place. It runs in any modern browser, with no client to install.
The dashboard is an operations console rather than a charting tool. It is a curated set of tools, each opening a focused workspace for a real task: deploying an app, wiring up a site's zero-trust network, checking storage health, acknowledging an alert. For custom time-series charting, EmberNet ships Grafana in the App Store.
Accessing the dashboard
- Cloud-hosted: https://dashboard.embernet.ai
- On-premises:
https://<your-embernet-host>(configured during installation)
Sign-in is handled by your identity provider through single sign-on, so there is no separate dashboard password. Your identity determines which view you land on and what you can see and do. See SSO Integration.
Role-based views
The dashboard renders a different view for each role. You don't switch views to change your permissions; you're placed in the right one, scoped to the right data, when you sign in.
| View | For | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Global Command | Platform staff | Every tenant, cross-fleet. The only place aggregate, cross-tenant data is ever shown |
| Admin | Tenant administrators | Their own tenant: users, sites, devices, apps, network, storage, alerts |
| Engineer | Tenant engineers | Their own tenant: day-to-day monitoring and diagnostics, read-mostly configuration |
| Operator | Floor operators | Their own tenant: live status, device health, and alert acknowledgement |
Tenant isolation is enforced by the platform, not by hiding buttons: an Admin, Engineer, or Operator only ever sees their own tenant's data. See Multi-Tenancy.
The workspace
Every view shares the same layout.
Header
- Client Switcher (Global Command only): pick a client to scope the whole console to one tenant, or leave it on All Clients for the aggregate, cross-fleet view. Selecting a client drills every tool and metric down to that tenant; "All" is the platform-wide view.
- View Switcher: jump between the views your role permits.
- Alerts bell: a live count of active alerts with a quick-look dropdown.
Context metrics
A strip of live metric cards sits above the tool grid. The metrics shown follow the category you have selected in the carousel below. Pick Industrial Automation and the strip shows PLC drivers, broker tags, and industrial alerts; pick Edge Infrastructure and it shows nodes, pods, and storage. You choose which metrics appear and how each is drawn. See Metrics & Monitoring.
Tool grid and category carousel
The body of the console is a grid of tool cards. A category carousel across the top filters the grid so you can find the right tool fast:
| Category | Tools it surfaces |
|---|---|
| Zero Trust Network | Flux Console: mesh identities, services, routers, and policies |
| Industrial Automation | Ignition (Cloud & Edge), the AnvilMQ broker |
| App Deployment | App Store, running-app management |
| Edge Infrastructure | Ops, Clusters, Cinder storage, Cloud Storage, edge provisioning |
| Device Management | Device Monitor, Network Devices: registry, configuration, and health |
| Monitoring & Diagnostics | Digital Twin, Live Diagnostics, Alerts |
| Sites | Site hierarchy: plants, buildings, zones, and assets |
| Compliance & Reporting | Audit log, scheduled reports, activity timeline |
| Platform | Settings, documentation, manifest |
Cards can be dragged into the order you prefer, and the category you last used is remembered between visits.
The toolset
A tour of the main tools. Each opens a focused workspace; the ones available to you depend on your role.
- App Store: browse and deploy curated industrial apps (Ignition, Node-RED, Grafana, databases, brokers, and more) to your edge nodes.
- Sites: your physical hierarchy of plants, buildings, zones, and the assets in each. Drill from a site down to an individual device.
- Digital Twin: a live topology of a site's network and devices, alongside discovery probes that find and profile equipment on the wire.
- Device Monitor: the device registry. Register devices one at a time or by bulk import, and watch hardware health.
- Network Devices: inventory, remote configuration, and topology for the network equipment at your sites.
- Flux Console: manage the Flux zero-trust mesh, covering identities, services, edge routers, and the policies that connect them.
- Ignition Cloud & Edge: launch and manage Inductive Automation Ignition gateways running on the platform.
- AnvilMQ: the platform's MQTT broker. Connection, topic, and tag status.
- Ops & Clusters: fleet and cluster operations for your edge deployments, available to platform staff and tenant admins.
- Cinder: Storage capacity, volume health, and backups.
- Cloud Storage: sync selected data to your own AWS S3 or Azure Blob storage.
- Alerts: active alerts and history.
- Audit & Reports: the audit log, scheduled reports, and an activity timeline of recent changes.
- Settings: users, tenant configuration, SMTP, and integrations, scoped to what your role manages.
Multi-tenant operation
Platform staff operate the whole fleet from Global Command. The Client Switcher in the header is the single control for scope:
- All Clients shows the aggregate, cross-fleet picture: total nodes, alerts, and health across every tenant.
- Selecting a client drills the entire console, every tool card, metric, and table, into that one tenant, as if you were their administrator.
Everyone else works entirely within their own tenant; there is no cross-tenant data to switch to.
Next steps
- Metrics & Monitoring: the context-metrics strip and how to customize it
- Alerts & Notifications: configure and manage alerting
- Storage: Cinder capacity, health, and backups
- Flux: the zero-trust mesh behind the Flux Console
- API Reference: drive the same data programmatically