Interacting with the dashboard - BlueCat Edge - Service Point v4.x.x

BlueCat Edge User Guide
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en-US
Product name
BlueCat Edge
Version
Service Point v4.x.x

Log in to BlueCat Edge

Log in to BlueCat Edge using the link and credentials received in your Welcome to BlueCat Edge emails. Supported browsers include Google Chrome, Mozilla FireFox, and Apple Safari.

Attention: A known issue exists with Apple Safari where drop-down items in dialog boxes may not display the pop-up options when clicked. As a workaround, press the space bar when the drop-down is in focus.

In the Welcome to BlueCat Edge email, you will find the BlueCat Edge URL, including the email address to log in with.

The Temporary Password to authenticate with for the first login was made available to you in the Temporary Password e-mail.
Note: Make sure you copy and paste the email address and the temporary password with no spaces, or type them in identically as they were made available to you.

When you log in to BlueCat Edge, one of the first features you'll notice is the dashboard. The dashboard displays tiles with relevant information related to the service points that you have provisioned, services that you have deployed to those service points, and information about the query information passing through BlueCat Edge.

Using the dashboard

In the Dashboard area, you can click within a tile to open the page relevant to the statistic being shown.
  • Click to open the DNS Activity page. From this page, you can filter query data based on the selected site in the Query logs tab or view graphical representations of the query data in the Insights tab.
  • Click to open the Security page and view information regarding potentially compromised source IP addresses, identified by suspicious activity observed within BlueCat Edge.
  • Click to open the Reports page and gain insights into trends in your environment based on the data that is collected by Edge.
  • You can select whether you would like to enable Auto refresh of the statistics in the dashboard, or click to manually refresh the statistics of the dashboard.
  • The bulletin icon displays the number of notifications that require your attention. These notifications can range from site or policies not in use, old or outdated API access keys that are not in use, or additional information about configurations that require your attention. Click the icon to load a panel with notifications that require your attention.

    From the Bulletin panel, you can filter notifications based on the following:
    • All
    • Access key
    • Discovery configuration
    • DNS Resolver
    • Domain list
    • GSLB rule
    • Health check config
    • IP list
    • Logging endpoint
    • Namespace
    • Policy
    • Secret
    • Site
    • Umbrella integration

    You can click on a specific notification to bring up the details pane of the selected item to determine how to remediate the notification.

Dashboard graphs and tables

The dashboard includes multiple graphs and tables that provide insights into the health of your environment.

Click to download a CSV file of the data represented in the graph or table

Click to expand the graph or table to full screen. When expanded, you can click the Esc key or to exit out of full screen.

Click the graph components or label names within the graph or tables to bring up the details page of the selected item.

The dashboard graphs and tables display information in the following categories.
  • Average site QPS—displays a list of sites and the average QPS passing through that site within the last 24 hours.
  • DRS activity per site—displays a list of DNS resolver services deployed from a selected site and statistics about the QPS per service. This includes the average QPS and maximum QPS hit by that DNS resolver service over the past 24 hours. You can change the selected site using the Site dropdown menu.
  • QPS activity—displays a chronological graph of QPS activity over the past 24 hours.
  • Top 10 queried domains—displays a list of the most queried domains over the past 24 hours.
  • Policy activity—displays a chronological graph of policy actions enacted on queries over the past 24 hours.
  • Most active sites—displays a list of the sites with the most queries passing through those sites within the last 7 days.
  • Most active namespaces—displays a list of namespaces that have been enacted on the most over the past 7 days.
  • Update status—displays a list of recent attempts to update service points or services, and includes the status of those updates.
  • Outdated versions—displays a list of outdated service point and site versions, and the number of service points and sites that are running the outdated version
  • Service point errors—displays a list of errors reported by all provisioned service points.
  • Discovery instance errors—displays a list of errors reported by all configured discovery instance services.
  • Site map—displays a map with points that represent a cluster of sites, including the number of sites clustered in that geographic area.

    In the World Map area, you can click a cluster to open a pop-up window with a list of sites in the selected cluster. The site card lists out the location of the sites, the number of service points provisioned from each site, and the state of the service point. You can click the name of the site to open the Sites page. Additionally, you can click show activity to show all DNS query activity from that site.

  • Unique IPs—displays a graph of unique IP addresses that have performed queries over the last 90 days.
  • Top IP addresses by query count—displays a list of the top IP addresses performing queries over the past 24 hours.

Keyboard Navigation

The BlueCat Edge UI also supports keyboard navigation.