About the Dashboards page

Last updated 2023-11-06

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This information is part of a beta release. For additional details, read our product and feature lifecycle descriptions.

Located under the Observability tab in the web interface, the Dashboards page allows you to:

view and manage your custom dashboards.
view the Image Optimizer, WebSockets, and Fanout dashboards.

Before you begin

Be sure you know how to access the web interface controls before learning about the details you'll encounter here.

About the Custom Dashboards tab

From the Custom Dashboards tab, you can view and manage your custom dashboards. Custom dashboards are collections of metrics that you build to surface relevant metrics for a Fastly service.

About the Image Optimizer dashboard

The Image Optimizer dashboard displays the following metrics:

Image Optimizer total responses: the total number of responses that came from the Fastly Image Optimizer service.
Image Optimizer shield responses: the number of responses that came from the Fastly Image Optimizer service via a shield.
Image Optimizer total bytes delivered: the total bytes delivered from the Fastly Image Optimizer service, including shield traffic.
Image Optimizer shield bytes delivered: the total bytes delivered via a shield from the Fastly Image Optimizer service.
Image Optimizer video responses: the number of video responses that came from the Fastly Image Optimizer service.
Image Optimizer video frames: the number of video frames that came from the Fastly Image Optimizer service. A video frame is an individual image within a sequence of video.
Image Optimizer video bytes delivered: the total bytes of video delivered from the Fastly Image Optimizer service.
Image Optimizer video shield responses: the number of video responses delivered via a shield that came from the Fastly Image Optimizer service.
Image Optimizer video shield bytes delivered: the total bytes of video delivered via a shield from the Fastly Image Optimizer service.
Image Optimizer video shield frames: the number of video frames delivered via a shield that came from the Fastly Image Optimizer service. A video frame is an individual image within a sequence of video.

About the WebSockets dashboard

The WebSockets dashboard displays the following metrics:

WebSockets connection time: the total duration of passthrough WebSocket connections with end users.
WebSockets bytes transferred to client: the total bandwidth transferred by Fastly for your service when using requests.
WebSockets bytes transferred from client: the total bandwidth transferred by Fastly for your service when receiving requests.
WebSockets bytes transferred to origin: the total bandwidth transferred by Fastly to your backend when receiving requests.
WebSockets bytes transferred from origin: the total bandwidth transferred to Fastly from your backend when serving requests.

About the Fanout dashboard

The Fanout dashboard displays the following metrics:

Fanout connection time: the total duration of Fanout connections with end users.
Fanout published messages: the total number of messages received from the publish API and sent to end users.
Fanout bytes transferred to client: the total bandwidth transferred by Fastly for your service when serving requests.
Fanout bytes transferred from client: the total bandwidth transferred by Fastly for your service when receiving requests.
Fanout bytes transferred to backend: the total bandwidth transferred by Fastly to your backend when receiving requests.
Fanout bytes transferred from backend: the total bandwidth transferred to Fastly from your backend when serving requests.

What's next

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