Dashboard
The Dashboard is the central overview for your site. It shows real-time traffic metrics, provides quick access to common actions, and guides you through the initial setup process.
Key Metrics
At the top of the dashboard, three KPI cards summarize your site's performance compared to the previous period:
Requests
Total requests served by smoxy
Image Cache Hits
Cache hits for image content
HTML Cache Hits
Cache hits for HTML content
Each card shows a percentage change indicator — green for increases, red for decreases — so you can quickly spot trends.
Charts
The dashboard provides seven interactive charts, accessible via tabs:
Requests
Total HTTP requests over time
Blocked
Requests blocked by security rules (HTTP 403)
Status Code
Response breakdown by status code group (2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx)
Image Cache Hits
Cache HIT, MISS, BYPASS, and EMPTY for image requests
HTML Cache Hits
Cache HIT, MISS, BYPASS, and EMPTY for HTML requests
Content Type
Request breakdown by content type
Cache Purges
Cache invalidation operations (BAN/PURGE)
Chart Controls
Click legend items to show or hide individual series
Zoom in by selecting a time range directly on the chart
Reset zoom to return to the full view
The dashboard remembers your last selected chart and time range across sessions.
Time Range
Use the time range selector to control what period the charts display:
Quick presets — 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 6 hours, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days
Relative ranges — Today, This week, Last N minutes/hours/days
Custom range — Pick a specific start and end date (up to 30 days)
Recently used — Your last 5 time ranges are saved for quick access
Live Mode
Enable Live Mode to see requests in real time. The charts refresh automatically every 5 seconds. Live mode is available for time ranges of 1 hour or less.
Wildcard Filter
Enable the Wildcard toggle to include all subdomains in the charts. This uses the wildcard SSL certificate that smoxy creates for each domain.
Quick Actions
The sidebar provides shortcuts for common operations:
Cache Management
Clear Entire Cache
Removes all cached content for this site
Clear Cache by URL
Removes cache for a specific URL
Clear Cache by Tag
Removes all cached content matching specific cache tags
Helpers
Pause Cache Optimize
Temporarily disables smoxy's caching and optimization. A countdown timer shows when it will automatically re-enable.
Enable Debug Headers
Adds debug information to response headers for troubleshooting. A countdown timer shows when it will automatically disable.
Security
Under Attack Mode
Emergency DDoS protection that challenges all visitors before allowing access. See Security & WAF for details.
Go-Live Checklist
When setting up a new site, the dashboard displays a step-by-step checklist to guide you through the activation process:
Target Setup — Configure an origin server or load balancer as the traffic destination
Connectivity — Verify that your origins are reachable and responding (smoxy tests the connection for you)
Hostnames — Add at least one hostname to the site
SSL — Ensure a valid SSL certificate is configured for your hostnames
The checklist also shows a DNS Records table with the exact CNAME records you need to set for each hostname, including a verification status indicator showing whether each record is correctly configured.
Once all steps are complete, use the Check connection & start smoxy button to validate the setup and activate your site.
Tip: You can use the Ask coworker for help option to share the setup link with a team member via email.
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