Stoplight
The Stoplight 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 Stoplight widget is useful when:
-
You want a simple way to display the current status of a critical service or metric.
Examples
Service is up
Service is down
When a service is down, the Incident ID is also displayed on the widget. Selecting the Incident ID will redirect you to the incident's page.
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.
|
Field |
Description |
|---|---|
|
Widget name |
Name of the widget as it appears on the dashboard. This field shows the default name of the widget. Select the pen icon to rename the widget. |
|
Services |
Select the service or metric that you want to display on the widget. |