Site Management

The Unifi Dashboard is designed to handle multi-site deployments with ease. Whether you are managing a handful of home setups or dozens of business locations, the interface provides several tools to organize and prioritize your view.

Using Site Filters

The Site Filter panel at the top of the dashboard allows you to toggle the visibility of specific sites. This is particularly useful when you want to focus on a subset of your network without being overwhelmed by data from every location.

Filter Options

• Individual Selection: Click a site name in the filter panel to toggle its visibility on the dashboard grid.
• Quick Actions: Use the preset buttons to quickly modify your view:
  • All: Displays every site associated with your UniFi account.
  • None: Hides all site cards (useful for starting a fresh selection).
  • Online Only: Automatically filters out any sites currently detected as offline.

Persistence

The dashboard remembers your filter selections. When you refresh the page or return to the dashboard later, your chosen site visibility settings are restored automatically, ensuring you don't have to re-configure your workspace every session.

Managing Large Deployments

To maximize screen real estate and improve performance on mobile devices, the dashboard includes UI elements designed for high-density monitoring.

Collapsible Site Cards

Every site card can be collapsed to show only its header and high-level status.

• Toggle State: Click the chevron icon on any site card to expand or collapse the detailed device and client lists.
• State Memory: The collapse/expand state of each site is saved during your session, so your layout remains consistent even after an auto-refresh.

Responsive Layout

The dashboard utilizes a fluid grid system. Site cards will automatically re-arrange from a multi-column layout on desktops to a single-column stack on tablets and mobile devices.

Understanding Site Availability

The dashboard uses Availability Inference to determine the health of a site. Since a site itself is a logical container, its status is calculated based on the status of the hardware within it:

| Status | Logic | | :--- | :--- | | Online | At least one UniFi device (AP, Switch, or Gateway) is reporting an active state. | | Offline | No devices are reporting as active, or the API cannot reach the site's host. |

Sites detected as offline are highlighted with distinct visual styling and can be filtered out using the "Online Only" toggle to reduce "noise" during network outages.

Refresh and Synchronization

By default, the dashboard synchronizes data across all sites every 15 seconds.

• Countdown Timer: Located in the header, this shows exactly when the next data fetch will occur.
• Auto-Refresh Toggle: You can pause the automatic updates by unchecking the "Auto-refresh" box in the header. This is useful when you are performing a deep dive into specific client data and want to prevent the UI from updating.
• Manual Refresh: Clicking the "Refresh Data" button (if available) or reloading the page will trigger an immediate fetch of all site, device, and client data through the BFF (Backend-for-Frontend) proxy.