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The dashboard is a single-page app built into the dnz binary. It works offline (no fonts or icons from a CDN), supports light and dark mode, and moves its menu to a bottom dock on phones.

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The top bar

From left to right:
  • DNZ logo: back to the Overview.
  • Division switcher: the division you’re working in. Zones, members, tokens and logs follow it. You only see the divisions you’re assigned to; superadmins see them all.
  • The menu: Overview, Topology, DNS, Proxy, Access, Settings.
  • Find (⌘K on macOS, Ctrl+K elsewhere): jump to any page, zone or setting by typing.
  • Health (superadmins): whether the forward DNS upstreams are up, which one is resolving now and which takes over next.
  • Create New: a zone, user, role, division or notification provider, depending on what you may do.
  • Incidents (superadmins): upstream outages and recoveries.
  • Account menu: account settings (profile, password, signed-in sessions), the theme (System, Light or Dark), sign out, and About DNZ with the version.

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The menu

What you see depends on your role. Sections you can’t use are hidden.

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Overview

The landing page sums up the current division:
  • Traffic: queries over the chosen range (24 hours to 90 days), with answered, NXDOMAIN and SERVFAIL counts. A division’s traffic is the names in its zones plus everything clients in its client networks ask. Superadmins get a Scope switch: All queries (their default) counts the whole server, including names forwarded for clients in no client network, such as google.com from a laptop no division claims. The other choice shows just the division. Answered by, the top lists, Recent queries and the links into the query log follow the scope.
  • Answered by: how many of those queries were answered from your zones (Local), sent to an upstream or a forwarding rule (Forwarded), served from the Cache, Blocked, or ended in an Error, each with its share. Click one to open the query log filtered to it.
  • Top names and clients, each linking into the query log.
  • Request flow: how queries travel from clients through filtering, the cache and forwarding rules to the upstreams. With proxying on, a Proxy tab shows visitors → each proxy → its routers and middlewares → services → upstreams.
  • Zones: a card per zone.
  • Recent queries.
  • Alerts: recent upstream outages.
Superadmins also see forward DNS monitoring and server usage. See Monitoring.

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Pages in this guide

Zones and records

DNS → Zones

Forwarding

DNS → Forwarding

Users, divisions and roles

Access

Settings

Settings → General