The Deployer documentation
After you're live: the Dashboard

Dashboard overview

Once your app is live, the Dashboard is your home base. It's the first tab on any project, and it gathers everything about your running app onto a single screen — its web addresses, its health, your servers, what it's costing, and the full history of every deployment. This page is a quick tour of each card so you know where to look. Every card links to a fuller guide below.

Top actions

Two buttons sit at the very top of the Dashboard:

  • Pull & Restart — pulls the latest code from your connected branch and restarts your app, streaming live logs just like a normal deployment. See Pull & Restart and auto-deploy.
  • Environment variables — opens the manager for your app's settings and secret keys (its "environment variables"). It can read the live values straight off your server, and applying a change does a quick, targeted redeploy. More: managing environment variables.

If any service needs attention, a coloured banner appears here too — for example, if a URL isn't reachable yet or a tool still needs a manual step.

The cards

  • Live services — your app's web address (URL) plus any bundled tool URLs (like monitoring), each with a health badge (Healthy, Needs setup, or Unreachable) and a link you can click. You can search it by name or domain. See searching & filtering.
  • Uptime — on the Pro and Team plans, The Deployer checks your app's address every few minutes. The card shows whether it's up, the share of the last 24 hours and 7 days it was answering, and any recent outages. You get an email when it stops answering and again when it's back, and another when a deploy fails; choose which emails you want under Alerts on your Profile page.
  • Domains — every domain (web address) pointing at your app, with an Add a domain button to point more at it. More: connect a custom domain.
  • Service logins — the sign-in details (username and password) for bundled tools like Grafana. Passwords come from your project's secure vault and stay hidden behind a show/hide toggle. See service logins.
  • Connected services — the managed databases, caches, queues, and file buckets attached to this project, with an Attach button to add more. More: attach a database.
  • Cost — your month-to-date estimate, an expected monthly range, and a line-by-line breakdown of what each piece costs. More: costs & billing.
  • Activity — the complete history of every deployment: each row has an id, a TYPE chip (Manual, Auto, Push, Env, or Domain), a label, a timestamp, and a STATUS badge. It's searchable and filterable, and clicking any row opens that deployment's logs. See searching & filtering.
  • Servers — your virtual machines (the cloud computers running your app), each with live CPU, RAM, and disk meters, plus a Connect via SSH button to open a terminal. See connecting to your servers.

Good to know

  • The Dashboard refreshes on its own every few seconds, so health badges, meters, and Activity stay current without a page reload.
  • Redeploys of server-based apps are health-gated. When an app already running on your own servers is redeployed, each new container must pass its health check before the old one is removed. A first deploy isn't rolling, managed hosting uses the provider's own rollout, and resizing a single server takes it offline for about 1 to 3 minutes.
  • Some cards (like Service logins) only appear once there's something to show. If a card is missing, it usually means that part of your project isn't set up yet.