Dashboard
The operational home for your team: metrics, activity, jobs, search, and quick actions.
TL;DR -- The dashboard is not just a welcome screen. It is the place where you get a quick read on the team, jump into the next task, and see what is already moving across trajectories, clusters, jobs, chats, and notifications.
Overview
When you land on the dashboard, VOLT is trying to answer a practical question: what is happening in this team right now, and what do you probably want to do next?
That is why the page mixes metrics, recent work, quick actions, search, cluster health, presence, and a live trajectory preview. It is meant to feel like a control room for the workspace rather than a static home page.
What you see first
The metric cards at the top give you a fast sense of how active the team is. They track major resource groups such as trajectories, analyses, containers, and plugins, and pair the current counts with short trend lines so you can spot whether activity is ramping up or cooling down over the last week.
One of the cards rotates through additional metrics over time, so the top row surfaces more than a fixed set of counters.
Cluster health without leaving the page
The dashboard also keeps one eye on infrastructure. The cluster health area reflects heartbeat and resource data coming back from connected team clusters, including CPU, memory, and service availability.
That makes the page especially useful when jobs feel slow or a trajectory is stuck in processing. You do not have to jump straight into the cluster detail view to see whether the team is short on resources or waiting for a machine to reconnect.
Quick Actions
Quick Actions are there for the things people do repeatedly. Instead of navigating through the sidebar each time, you can start a trajectory upload, create a container, open Scripting, or begin a Volt AI conversation directly from the dashboard.
Recent work and team activity
The middle of the page helps you re-enter context. You can usually tell what the team has been doing without opening five separate modules.
- Recent analyses surface the latest plugin runs, along with plugin names, linked trajectories, and status.
- In-app activity gives you a more general live pulse of work happening around the workspace.
- Notifications show a compact feed of recent personal events such as completed analyses, team invitations, or import results.
Presence and search
The dashboard is also where VOLT feels most collaborative. Team presence tells you who is currently online, and the global search bar lets you search across several resource types from one place.
| Resource Type | What It Covers |
|---|---|
| Trajectories | Trajectory names and related metadata |
| Analyses | Analysis records and linked trajectories |
| Containers | Container names and images |
| Teams | Team names, including team switching results |
| Plugins | Plugin names and descriptions |
| Chats | Direct and group conversation names |
Because search is federated, it works best as a way to jump into a known resource quickly instead of browsing a full dataset.
Embedded trajectory preview
If the team already has processed data, the dashboard can also surface a trajectory preview card. That gives you a visual entry point back into recent simulation work and makes the page feel connected to the scientific workflow, not just the admin side of the product.
When the dashboard is most useful
The page tends to matter most in three situations:
- when you are joining a busy team workspace and want instant context,
- when you are monitoring whether uploads or analyses are progressing,
- or when you want to jump into the next action without hunting through the sidebar.
In other words, the dashboard is less about deep work and more about orientation. It helps you decide where to go next.