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title: "Interactive Dashboard"
description: "A tool to inspect the running Talos machine state on the physical video console."
---

Interactive dashboard is enabled for all Talos platforms except for SBC images.
The dashboard can be disabled with kernel parameter `talos.dashboard.disabled=1`.

The dashboard runs only on the physical video console (not serial console) on the 2nd virtual TTY.
The first virtual TTY shows kernel logs same as in Talos <1.4.0.
The virtual TTYs can be switched with `<Alt+F1>` and `<Alt+F2>` keys.

Keys `<F1>` - `<Fn>` can be used to switch between different screens of the dashboard.

The dashboard is using either UEFI framebuffer or VGA/VESA framebuffer (for legacy BIOS boot).
For legacy BIOS boot screen resolution can be controlled with the [`vga=` kernel parameter](https://docs.kernel.org/fb/vesafb.html).

## Summary Screen (`F1`)

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Interactive Dashboard Summary Screen
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The header shows brief information about the node:

* hostname
* Talos version
* uptime
* CPU and memory hardware information
* CPU and memory load, number of processes

Table view presents summary information about the machine:

* UUID (from SMBIOS data)
* Cluster name (when the machine config is available)
* Machine stage: `Installing`, `Upgrading`, `Booting`, `Maintenance`, `Running`, `Rebooting`, `Shutting down`, etc.
* Machine stage readiness: checks Talos service status, static pod status, etc. (for `Running` stage)
* Machine type: controlplane/worker
* Number of members discovered in the cluster
* Kubernetes version
* Status of Kubernetes components: `kubelet` and Kubernetes controlplane components (only on `controlplane` machines)
* Network information: Hostname, Addresses, Gateway, Connectivity, DNS and NTP servers

Bottom part of the screen shows kernel logs, same as on the virtual TTY 1.

## Monitor Screen (`F2`)

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Interactive Dashboard Monitor Screen
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Monitor screen provides live view of the machine resource usage: CPU, memory, disk, network and processes.

## Network Config Screen (`F3`)

> Note: network config screen is only available for `metal` platform.

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Interactive Dashboard Network Config Screen
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Network config screen provides editing capabilities for the `metal` [platform network configuration]({{< relref "../install/bare-metal-platforms/network-config" >}}).

The screen is split into three sections:

* the leftmost section provides a way to enter network configuration: hostname, DNS and NTP servers, configure the network interface either via DHCP or static IP address, etc.
* the middle section shows the current network configuration.
* the rightmost section shows the network configuration which will be applied after pressing "Save" button.

Once the platform network configuration is saved, it is immediately applied to the machine.
