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Dashboard Overview

The Dashboard is your central control panel. From here you start and stop services, watch live system metrics, and switch the active runtimes for your projects.

Service cards​

The top of the Dashboard shows a grid of service cards, one per bundled service:

  • Nginx / Apache (web server)
  • MySQL / PostgreSQL (database)
  • Redis (cache and queues)
  • Mailpit (mail catcher)

Each card has a Start/Stop button and a status indicator that shows whether the service is currently running. You can also view a service's logs and hide unused services from the grid.

For details on each service, see Services.

Start All / Stop All​

Use the Start All and Stop All buttons to bring the whole stack up or down at once. On a fresh install these are gated behind a bootstrap step until the recommended stack has been set up.

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Only one web server should run on ports 80/443 at a time. Run either Nginx or Apache, not both.

Live system metrics​

The Dashboard shows live gauges for CPU, Memory, and GPU, each with a sparkline of recent history. Samples are taken roughly every 1.5 seconds, so you can keep an eye on resource usage while your stack runs.

Runtime selector​

Runtime selector chips let you switch the active PHP and active Node version globally. Click a chip to make that version the default used by your projects.

See PHP versions for more on managing installed PHP versions.

PHP-FPM status​

Below the runtime chips, a status card is shown per installed PHP version. Each card displays the FPM port, its running state, and a button to edit extensions for that version.

Service logs​

Each service exposes its logs (stdout and stderr) so you can troubleshoot directly from the Dashboard without hunting for log files.

Fresh installs​

On a brand-new setup, the Dashboard offers a Bootstrap recommended stack modal that installs and configures a sensible default set of services for you.

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A Visual C++ Redistributable check runs in the background. If the required redistributable is missing, the Dashboard warns you, since the native service binaries depend on it.

Next steps​