The Up/Down widget is a clear visual indicator of the current availability of a specific service or metric. This is commonly used to display whether a critical service is up or down. The last outage/incident involving this check/metric will be displayed below the metric label.

Use case

The Up/Down widget is useful when:

• You want to display the current status of a critical service or metric.

Examples

Service is up

In this example, the widget shows an Up arrow indicating that the SSH port is reachable.

Service is down

A red down arrow indicates that there is an incident on the service. Selecting the Incident ID will open the incident on a new tab.

Configuration

When creating or editing a widget, a drawer that shows the widget's configuration options slides out from the right. Each configurable option is described in the following table.