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 such as:

IaC Coverage & Asset Posture

A summary of what percentage of your resources are codified vs. how many are drifted, ghost, or unmanaged. Firefly's dashboard highlights the top drifted resources and unmanaged assets, as well as an overall percentage of assets under IaC management.

• 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)

• Ghost assets: Defined in IaC but no longer exist in the cloud

For example, the dashboard might show "80% codified, 10% drifted, 9% unmanaged, 1% ghost," giving you instant insight into IaC adoption. You'll also see the Top 5 Drifted Properties (specific settings that are most commonly drifting, like security group rules or IAM policy changes) and the Top Unmanaged Resources so you know which items to prioritize bringing under IaC control.

Multi-Cloud Inventory Summary

A breakdown of assets by Data Source (cloud provider or service). This widget shows how your resources are distributed across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and any SaaS integrations. Each provider icon might have a count of assets. It helps answer "what do we have in each cloud?" at a glance. If you click on a provider, it could filter you into the Inventory page showing just that provider's assets.

Cloud Waste & Cost Insights

Firefly's dashboard may include a Cloud Waste panel or cost savings insight card. This highlights potential cost optimizations – for example, number of unused or idle resources detected (like unattached volumes, idle VMs) and an estimate of monthly savings if cleaned up. Firefly identifies cloud waste such as underutilized instances, orphaned storage, or over-provisioned resources, and summarizes them here. A high waste number or a cost anomaly indicator on the dashboard tells you that you should visit the Cost Optimization or Inventory page to reclaim resources.

Inventory and IaC Stats

Key counts like total Assets discovered, number of IaC Stacks (Terraform/CloudFormation state files integrated), and active Workflows or automations running. For instance, it might show "Assets: 5,230" and "IaC Stacks: 120", indicating how large your footprint is and how many IaC states Firefly is tracking. If you've set up any continuous codification or guardrail workflows, those might be indicated as well.

Policy Violations Summary

A widget summarizing Policy & Governance status – e.g. "Policies: 50 passing, 5 failing". It may break down violations by category (security, cost, compliance) or show the number of assets not compliant with policies. Often this is visualized as a chart or list of top policy violation types. By clicking this, you could jump to the Governance page for more details on which policies are failing. Firefly also often includes a SaaS Integrations card; clicking it filters the Inventory to only SaaS assets, illustrating that those are being tracked as well.

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?". Red or warning indicators on any widget direct your attention. For example, a high drift count suggests you check drifts, or a large number of unmanaged assets suggests running codification.

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 policy violations or cost anomalies 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, Policy, etc.) for further action.