What it is
UPS Monitor has two working views: the Overview tab for the whole fleet and the detail view of a single UPS. The Overview widgets can be rearranged, resized and hidden with the Customize button (see below).
The Overview dashboard
- Metrics — “Total UPS”, “Online”, “Avg Charge” and “Critical” (devices below the critical battery threshold). Battery and load figures only count devices that monitoring currently sees alive — a UPS that stopped responding never shows the values of its last snapshot as if they were current (for a UPS, that would be an electrical-safety lie).
- Battery Health — concentric rings for fleet-wide “Charge”, “Load” and “Runtime”.
- UPS Rankings — the devices in worst shape first, so problems surface by themselves.
- Power charts — “Battery Charge” and “Output Load”, each in its own widget so you can move, resize or hide them separately. Both carry the “1h” / “4h” / “12h” / “24h” / “7d” / “30d” pills, kept in sync (on the two long ranges the tooltip shows the day as well as the time): changing the range on one chart changes it on the other.
- 24h UPS Availability Matrix — heatmap, one row per UPS; gaps show when a device was unreachable.
- Quick Notes — free-text pad for annotations about your power infrastructure.
Header actions: Customize, Fleet Report, Export CSV, Refresh All, New Tab.
Customizing the widgets
The dashboard is locked by default, so nothing moves by accident. Click Customize to enter edit mode:
- Move a widget by dragging its title; resize it from the bottom-right corner or from its right and bottom edges (the handles are visible while you edit).
- Widgets opens a list with a checkbox per widget: untick one to hide it, tick it again to bring it back. A hidden widget stops requesting data until you show it again.
- Set as organization default (administrators only) saves the arrangement you are editing as the default for everyone in the organization, after a confirmation. It does not touch the arrangements colleagues already saved for themselves: it is what new users see, and what Restore default brings back.
- Restore default brings back the organization default if an administrator saved one, or the factory layout if not, and shows the hidden ones.
- Done saves your arrangement; Cancel discards every change made since you clicked Customize.
Your arrangement is personal and is stored on the server, so it follows you to any browser. Until you save one, you see the organization default set by an administrator, or the factory layout if there is none. On narrow screens (a phone, a tablet held upright, a half-width window) the widgets stack in a single column, and you can customize that order too: press Customize, drag widgets up or down by their title and hide the ones you do not need, then Done. That mobile arrangement is saved separately from the desktop one, so each keeps its own layout. Until you save one, the phone shows the widgets in the same order as your desktop layout. Administrators can also set an organization default for the mobile arrangement with Set as organization default while on a narrow screen.
Adding a chart for one UPS
Besides the built-in widgets, you can pin the chart of any single UPS to the Overview:
- Click Customize, then Widgets.
- At the top of the list, pick a UPS in the first dropdown and a measure in the second one: “Battery Charge”, “Output Load”, “Input Voltage”, “Output Voltage”, “Runtime Remaining”, “Temperature”, “Input Frequency” or “Output Current”.
- Click Add chart. A new widget titled with the UPS name and the measure appears in the grid.
- Move and resize it like any other widget, then click Done to save it.
You can add up to 8 charts per dashboard, including several for the same UPS; once you reach the limit, Add chart is disabled. These charts are not in the checkbox list: to get rid of one, click Customize and use the Remove button on the chart itself, then Done. Cancel undoes any chart you added or removed since you clicked Customize. The charts are part of your arrangement, so they are saved with it and come back, with the same UPS and measure, when you reload the page or sign in from another browser. Each chart keeps its own measure selector, so you can switch measure without removing it; the widget title follows, and the change is kept if you make it while customizing and click Done. The desktop and mobile arrangements are separate: a chart added on a wide screen does not show on the phone until you add it there too.
The UPS detail view
Click a UPS in the sidebar. Header actions: Take out of Service / Return to Service (for a UPS stored or switched off on purpose: greyed out in the list, no alerts, not counted as offline; it returns by itself when it answers ping again — see [[crearack—monitoring—que-es-observatory]]), Assign Port (link to its switch port), Config (credentials and groups), Report, Deep Discover and New Tab.
Sections:
- Battery Status — charge %, health, age and temperature.
- Input — voltage, frequency and current arriving from the grid.
- Output — voltage, current and load % feeding your equipment.
- Active Alarms — anything the UPS itself is reporting (on battery, overload, battery needs replacement…), with severity.
- A chart grid you can customize; defaults are “Battery Charge”, “Output Load”, “Input Voltage” and “Battery Temperature”. Also available: “Output Voltage”, “Runtime Remaining”, “Input Frequency” and “Output Current”. The pills above the grid set the time range for all of them: “1h”, “4h”, “12h”, “24h”, “7d” and “30d”. On “7d” and “30d” each point summarizes 15 to 30 minutes and the tooltip shows the day as well as the time — the ranges to use for slow trends such as battery temperature or shrinking runtime. The UPS Report, the group tabs and the fleet dashboard offer the same ranges.
Reading the charts
- Battery Charge dropping while Input Voltage reads 0 — the UPS is running on battery: a power cut is in progress. “Runtime Remaining” tells you how long you have.
- Output Load consistently above ~80% leaves little headroom for the battery to carry the load during an outage — consider redistributing equipment.
- Battery Temperature trending up, or “Runtime Remaining” shrinking month after month at the same load, are the classic signs of an aging battery. Plan the replacement before it fails.
- Sawtooth Input Voltage points at an unstable grid feed or a failing transfer switch upstream.
Related
- [[crearack—monitoring—que-es-ups]] — module overview
- [[crearack—monitoring—alertas]] — get notified on charge/load thresholds instead of watching charts
- [[crearack—ups—groups-reports-troubleshooting]] — groups, reports and fixes
Véase también
- [[crearack—monitoring—que-es-ups]]
- [[crearack—ups—groups-reports-troubleshooting]]
- [[crearack—monitoring—alertas]]