The Dashboard
The dashboard answers one question — is the server healthy right now? — before you go looking for anything specific.
Resource cards
Section titled “Resource cards”| Card | Shows |
|---|---|
| Disk usage | Used space against what the server has |
| Current load | 1, 5 and 15-minute load averages, plus CPU usage |
| Memory usage | Used memory against total |
Read them together rather than one at a time. A high 1-minute load with a normal 15-minute average is a burst; all three high is a server that has been struggling for a while. Memory near the top with rising load usually means swapping, which shows up to customers as a site that has become inexplicably slow.
Disk is the one to act on early: a full disk breaks mail delivery, database writes and backups at the same time, and it does it without warning.
Service status
Section titled “Service status”The stack CorePanel manages, each reported as Online, Degraded or Offline:
- Web server — serves the hosted sites and the panel itself
- SMTP and Dovecot — sending, and IMAP/POP3 for mailboxes
- FTP — file transfer for accounts
- SSH — administrative access
- DNS, MySQL and the CorePanel services themselves
A summary line tells you how many of them are up. This is the fastest triage available: “mail is not arriving” plus an offline SMTP is a different investigation from “mail is not arriving” with the whole stack green.
Web traffic
Section titled “Web traffic”Live request and latency graphs for what the server is actually serving. They have their own page: Web Traffic Graphs.
Header
Section titled “Header”The header carries the server’s hostname, the CorePanel version and the edition in use — worth knowing before you go looking for a feature that belongs to a different edition, and the first thing to quote when you report a problem.