Your home dashboard
The home dashboard is your command center: before the stream it guides you with the Your first stream checklist, during the stream it tells you whether everything is up — and where the chain breaks if something fails — and afterwards it keeps the history of what you streamed.
The broadcast chain
Section titled “The broadcast chain”At the top sits the Broadcast chain, four links that follow your stream end to end:
| Link | What it checks |
|---|---|
| Signal | Your encoder is reaching the stream key |
| Reading | Something is reading that signal (your Cloud OBS or your own OBS) |
| OBS | Your OBS is streaming |
| Destination | You have an output channel set up |
Each link lights up while it’s active. If something breaks mid-stream, no guessing needed: the first dark link after a lit one is where the chain snaps, and it links straight to the guide for that exact step (for example My feed isn’t arriving or the playback URL).
Your signal health
Section titled “Your signal health”In Live signal, next to your Current bitrate, SRT and SRTLA keys show two more numbers: RTT (latency) and packet loss, with a traffic light:
| Color | What it means |
|---|---|
| Green — Stable signal | Loss under 1% and RTT under 150 ms |
| Amber | One of the two is creeping up. Keep an eye on it |
| Red | Loss at 5% or more, or RTT at 400 ms or more. Your image is feeling it |
When it’s red, don’t raise the bitrate: lower it and follow The bitrate keeps bouncing or the picture stutters.
Failover, in plain sight
Section titled “Failover, in plain sight”If you have a failover channel, its card shows on the dashboard with its live status. During a drop you’ll see the grace window counting down (Offline screen up · x min of grace left) and when the last splice happened. Every state is explained in Grace window and states.
Your history
Section titled “Your history”Once you’ve streamed at least once, the dashboard shows Your last stream (duration, average bitrate and drops) and four monthly counters: Hours streamed, Data uploaded, Streams and Drops. The full history of each key, with its latest streams, lives in that key’s detail page under Stream history.
Bell notifications
Section titled “Bell notifications”The dashboard bell warns you when your signal drops mid-stream and when failover puts up your offline screen. Together with the Cloud OBS inactivity warning, those are the three alerts worth never ignoring while live.
Next step
Section titled “Next step”- Your first stream: the dashboard checklist, step by step.
- My feed isn’t arriving: when the first link won’t light up.