# Sensu Go OSS Dashboard?

**URL:** <https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-go-oss-dashboard/1847>\
**Category:** Sensu Go\
**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-go-oss-dashboard/1847 "2020-06-04T09:59:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![raulgs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.sensu.io/raulgs/32/323_2.png) [@raulgs](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/raulgs)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-go-oss-dashboard/1847/1 "2020-06-04T09:59:55Z")

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I am doing some test with the oss version currently, as my company is a not for profit company and we therefore need to keep costs low.

From what I can read in the feature overview there should be a single dashboard per namespace available in the oss version. Unfortunately I cannot confirm that. Have I done something wrong compiling it? I have followed the following instructions: [https://github.com/sensu/sensu-go#building-from-source](https://github.com/sensu/sensu-go#building-from-source)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/sensu/original/1X/af35442186e306ae902806991c1cca40ef9d6ba7.png)

Source: [https://sensu.io/features](https://sensu.io/features)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/sensu/original/1X/d34c3a2ccf1bbb13d8a7e9a6a98b0d897d3f198e.png)

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**Author:** ![devinacosta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.sensu.io/devinacosta/32/75_2.png) [@devinacosta](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/devinacosta)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-go-oss-dashboard/1847/2 "2020-06-04T13:19:14Z")

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It appears that you do have it enabled in the screenshot. If you click where it says rzneo on your screen like this it should show namespaces.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/sensu/original/1X/416e65ecd1b6503ec84950e507830860601a3888.png)

and then should look something like this:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/sensu/original/1X/e8112af241a5d53561298472bfc7f83ef84da2c9.png)

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**Author:** ![raulgs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.sensu.io/raulgs/32/323_2.png) [@raulgs](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/raulgs)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-go-oss-dashboard/1847/3 "2020-06-04T14:09:15Z")

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Not really you are always send to the events site

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**Author:** ![jspaleta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.sensu.io/jspaleta/32/141_2.png) [@jspaleta](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/jspaleta)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-go-oss-dashboard/1847/4 "2020-06-04T21:34:53Z")

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Hey,

Can you describe what you were expecting to see based on what you read in the feature matrix? I think we probably have some sub-optimal words in the marketing material.

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**Author:** ![raulgs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.sensu.io/raulgs/32/323_2.png) [@raulgs](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/raulgs)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 6:20am UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-go-oss-dashboard/1847/5 "2020-06-05T06:20:31Z")

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I would say some kind of dashboard to be honest.

Lets say if we talk about a single-site dashboard, I would expect the one that has disappeared with version 5.20.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/sensu/original/1X/4c31706dae42babe2449f863e2eff5fb641b94d4.png)

Otherwise the multi-site dashboard - which in from my point of view seems to be the one released in version 5.20. Please correct me if I am wrong.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/sensu/original/1X/8544ca1f1c7b5dd7dc769df6528db765f5c96054.png)

As you can see in my first post there is neither a home nor a dashboard button.

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**Author:** ![raulgs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.sensu.io/raulgs/32/323_2.png) [@raulgs](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/raulgs)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-go-oss-dashboard/1847/6 "2020-06-08T09:24:04Z")

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@jspaleta any update on this?

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**Author:** ![jspaleta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.sensu.io/jspaleta/32/141_2.png) [@jspaleta](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/jspaleta)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-go-oss-dashboard/1847/7 "2020-06-09T02:36:08Z")

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Hey,

To be clear, the 4 panel summary in the web-ui as of 5.17 and prior was never part of the OSS web-ui “dashboard” client. I think prior to the federated view, this was referred to often as the HUD or homepage.

So as I said, I think the problem here is around the words in the marketing materials. We need to fix the feature matrix to be clearer as “dashboard” has been used in a couple of different ways.

On one hand we’ve been using it quite generally to refer to the embedded “web-ui api client”. As an example, the word “dashboard” is used in configuration keys for the the sensu-backend service to control aspects of that web-ui client. So with that usage in mind, OSS has an embedded web-ui api client (ie the dashboard). In the 5.17 documentation for the dashboard, there’s an effort to point out that the 4 panel homepage view is a commercial feature, while refering to the “Dashboard” as the web-ui client.

On the other hand, we’ve started to very recently refer to the federated view as “a dashboard” in the latest release, calling it as such in the web-ui sidebar menu. A dashboard inside the dashboard, if you will. So that’s the confusion we’ve caused by using the word in a couple of different contexts.

As Caleb posted today, the web-ui itself is going to be separated out as a separate OSS repository instead of being embedded in the OSS sensu-backend. As a result of that, we’ll have to re-work the language in the feature matrix further.

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**Author:** ![raulgs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.sensu.io/raulgs/32/323_2.png) [@raulgs](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/raulgs)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-go-oss-dashboard/1847/8 "2020-06-09T11:24:29Z")

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I see… this does not sound very beneficial for the open source version.  
Still thanks for your detailed response.

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**Author:** ![Antony\_Cleave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.sensu.io/antony_cleave/32/475_2.png) [@Antony\_Cleave](https://discourse.sensu.io/u/Antony_Cleave)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.sensu.io/t/sensu-go-oss-dashboard/1847/9 "2020-10-09T09:32:29Z")

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can I ask how you got that UI by following the docs here?

> **[sensu/sensu-go](https://github.com/sensu/sensu-go#building-from-source)**
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> Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring. Contribute to sensu/sensu-go development by creating an account on GitHub.

when I follow that for version 6.0 and 6.1 the sensu-backend does not listen on port 3000 at all, even if I explicitly specify it as such in the backend.yml

in order to get **any** kind of working web UI (minus the promised single site dashboard) I need to follow the extra steps in here

> <https://github.com/sensu/web/blob/master/INSTALL.md>

am I following the right procedure or am I doing something wrong?