Dashboard, the comic

The kitchen at a glance.

The same kitchen as the other comics, seen from the door. Before you cook, you want to know three things: is the kitchen open, how busy is it, and does anything need you. That is the dashboard.

1 Is the kitchen open?

Open the app and the dashboard says first whether the kitchen is open at all: is the Docker engine there, and is it working.

Which kitchen you are standing in, the docker context, is always at the bottom of the window. One click there takes you to another.

WSL switches a distro off fifteen seconds after its last window closes, and the Docker engine in it goes too. The dashboard says which one it is, and gives you the button that starts it again.

2 How busy is it?

Live charts of CPU, memory and network across all running cooks, so the kitchen’s rhythm is there at a glance.

A cook who suddenly works far too hard shows up in those lines straight away, before the rest of the kitchen notices.

Where the space went, split into images, volumes, build cache and containers, with the ten largest of each and the way to remove them.

3 The red card

One card with everything that needs you: a cook who keeps falling over, a health check that keeps failing, a cook at their memory limit or cut off from their door, a newer edition, a dinner that drifted from its card.

Who went home recently, and how: calmly, with exit code 0, or with a bang and an error code.

Clear out per kind from one dialog: images, containers, volumes, networks or build cache.

The cheat sheet

Every picture above, in Docker words.

The OPEN sign: The engine status
Which kitchen you are in: The docker context, in the status bar
The lights going out: WSL switching the distro off
How busy the kitchen is: CPU, memory and network across all containers
The storeroom: Disk usage: images, volumes, build cache
The red card: Needs attention
Who went home, and how: Recently stopped, with the exit code
Clearing out per kind: Clean up (prune) per kind

Now look at your own kitchen.

Engine status, live charts, where the disk went and one card with everything that needs attention, the moment you open the app.

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