Dashboard Overview

The Dashboard is the home page of Firefly and provides a bird's-eye view of the health and state of your cloud environment. It aggregates key metrics across all integrated providers to highlight areas that may need attention. When you open the Dashboard, you'll see summary widgets/cards organized into the following key areas:

Cloud & SaaS Accounts Summary

A breakdown of cloud and SaaS accounts by Data Source (cloud provider or service). This widget shows how your cloud and SaaS accounts are distributed across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, and any SaaS integrations, along with the third-party detection tools installed on those clouds. Each provider icon displays a count of connected accounts and their associated monitoring tools (such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, etc.). It helps answer "what cloud and SaaS accounts do we have and what monitoring is in place?" at a glance.

The summary includes:

• Total integrated accounts across all cloud and SaaS providers.

• Third-party detection tools installed and configured on each cloud and SaaS account.

• Provider distribution showing the breakdown of accounts by cloud and SaaS provider.

IaC Management

This section provides insights into your Infrastructure as Code adoption and automation workflows:

• IaC Stacks: Number of IaC stacks detected and tracked by Firefly (e.g., "120 Terraform state files").

• Workflow Execution: Number of workflow runs executed in the past week, showing automation activity and IaC deployment frequency.

• State File Health: Overview of the health and status of your IaC stacks.

For instance, it might show "IaC Stacks: 120 Terraform state files" and "Workflows: 45 executions this week", indicating how large your IaC footprint is and how active your automation processes are.

Cloud Asset Management

This comprehensive section covers your cloud asset inventory, coverage, and drift management:

IaC Coverage & Asset Posture

A summary of what percentage of your resources are codified vs. how many are drifted or unmanaged:

• Codified assets: Those already managed by IaC.

• Drifted assets: Those where the live configuration has deviated from the code.

• Unmanaged assets: Not managed by any IaC (created manually).

For example, the dashboard might show "80% codified, 11% drifted, 9% unmanaged," giving you instant insight into IaC adoption.

Asset Distribution & Discovery

• Total Assets: Key count of all assets discovered across your cloud environment (e.g., "Assets: 5,230").

• Global Asset Map: Interactive world map showing the geographical distribution of your cloud resources across regions and availability zones.

Note: Total assets count represents the sum of all assets excluding the assets created by Firefly integration.

Drift & Change Detection

• Clickops Events: Real-time detection of manual changes made manually in the cloud environment.

• Drift Cost Impact: Yearly financial impact of configuration drift, showing potential cost implications of the drifted assets.

• Top 5 Drifted Properties: Specific settings that are most commonly drifting, like security group rules, IAM policy changes, or resource configurations.

• Top 5 Unmanaged Cloud Resources: Priority list of unmanaged assets that should be brought under IaC control, helping you focus codification efforts.

Cloud Governance

This section focuses on compliance, optimization, and governance across your cloud environment:

Cloud Waste & EOL Detection

• Cloud Waste Detected: Summary of the cloud waste detected in the environment with estimated yearly savings if cleaned up.

• EOL & Service Lifecycle: Number of assets using end-of-life or deprecated services, helping maintain security and compliance.

Compliance & Tagging

• Tagging Coverage: Percentage of resources with proper tags applied, showing governance maturity.

• Compliance Packs: Average compliance posture across different compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR, etc.).

Using the Dashboard Effectively

Overall, the Dashboard is meant to quickly answer "Is everything OK in my cloud right now? What should I focus on first?". For example, a high drift count suggests you check drifts, or a large number of unmanaged assets suggests using codification to bring them under IaC control.

Use the Dashboard daily to monitor trends. If you see the codified percentage going up over time and drift going down, that's a positive sign your IaC adoption is improving. Conversely, a spike in cloud waste or EOL assets would prompt immediate investigation.

Each widget on the Dashboard is interactive. Clicking on a section will deep-link you to the relevant detailed page (Inventory, Governance, etc.) for further action.