Dashboard Overview
Understanding the Parascope landing page, its widgets, and how to use them for infrastructure visibility
The dashboard is the first thing you see when you open Parascope. It provides an at-a-glance summary of your entire infrastructure estate -- how many configuration items exist, how they are distributed across sources, what their health status looks like, and what has changed recently. Rather than requiring you to dig through individual CI lists, the dashboard surfaces the most important signals upfront so you can quickly assess the state of your environment and navigate to areas that need attention.
Stats Cards
Four metric cards span the top of the dashboard, each linking to a relevant filtered view:
| Card | Description | Links To |
|---|---|---|
| Total Configuration Items | Count of all CIs across every source and lifecycle state | Full CI list (no filters) |
| Active CIs | Count of CIs with active lifecycle status | CI list filtered to active items |
| Inactive CIs | Count of CIs with inactive lifecycle status | CI list filtered to inactive items |
| Recent Changes | Number of changes recorded in the last 24 hours | Full change history |
Each card displays a large numeric value with a subtle label beneath. The cards update on every page load and reflect the current state of the database.
CI Type Distribution Chart
An interactive pie chart visualizes how your infrastructure is distributed across source systems and CI types. It supports two levels of drill-down:
- Source level (default view) -- Each slice represents a source system. Slice size is proportional to the number of CIs from that source.
- Type level -- Click any source slice to drill down into the individual CI types within that source. For example, clicking "Kubernetes" reveals slices for
kubernetes.pod,kubernetes.deployment,kubernetes.node, and so on. - Navigation -- Click a specific CI type slice to navigate directly to the CI list filtered by that type.
Click the center of the chart or use the breadcrumb trail to navigate back up to the source-level view.
System Health Widget
The System Health widget provides a lifecycle status breakdown of all CIs in your environment:
- Overall progress bar -- Shows the proportion of active CIs relative to the total, giving an immediate visual indicator of infrastructure health
- Active (green) -- CIs that are currently discovered and operational. Shows count and percentage, and links to the CI list filtered by active status
- Inactive (amber) -- CIs that were previously discovered but are no longer being reported by their collector. Shows count and percentage, and links to the CI list filtered by inactive status
- Archived (gray) -- CIs that have been soft-deleted or archived. Shows count and percentage, and links to the CI list filtered by archived status
Recent Activity
The Recent Activity feed shows the latest 10 changes recorded across all CIs, providing a real-time pulse of what is happening in your infrastructure:
| Element | Description |
|---|---|
| Change type badge | Color-coded badge indicating Created, Updated, or Deleted |
| CI name and type | The affected CI's display name and its type (e.g., kubernetes.pod) |
| Field change detail | For updates, shows the first changed field with its old and new values (old value to new value) |
| Relative time | Human-readable time indicator (e.g., "3 minutes ago", "1 hour ago") |
| View all link | Footer link that navigates to the full change history page |
The feed is ordered by most recent first. Only the first field change is shown per entry to keep the feed scannable -- click through to the full change history for complete details.
Permissions
Dashboard widgets respect your RBAC data scope. If your API key or user account does not have permission to access certain data:
- Stats cards show a "Permission Denied" state instead of metric values
- Widgets that require data outside your scope display an appropriate access restriction message
- Navigation links within cards and widgets only lead to views you have access to
See Authentication and RBAC Administration for details on configuring access.
Related Documentation
- Searching Configuration Items -- Filtering, sorting, and full-text search in the CI list
- Change History -- Detailed change tracking and audit trail
- CI Lifecycle -- Active, inactive, and archived lifecycle states