Settings
Your account information, the sensor limit on your account, and how to change the Panel's language for one browser at a time.
The Settings page is split into a few tabs. This page covers the ones that do not have their own reference elsewhere: Account information and Language. For Notifications, see Notifications. For password changes and the destructive Reset encryption key action, see Encryption — User view.
Account information#
The Account tab shows the basics about your sign-in:
- Username — your sign-in name. You cannot change this from the Panel; an administrator does it for you.
- Display name — the friendly name shown next to your avatar. Shown as
—if none is set. - Role — either a regular user or an administrator. Administrators see data across the whole Panel; regular users only see their own.
- Max Sensors — the cap on how many sensors your account can have registered at one time. For a regular user this is a number like
5or20. For administrators, who are not subject to a per-account cap, the field reads Unlimited.
If you hit the Max Sensors limit, you can either delete an unused sensor from the Sensors page in the Panel sidebar, or ask your administrator to raise the cap. Deleting a sensor frees its slot immediately.
Language#
The Panel ships in five languages: English (default), German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Pick one from the Language selector on this tab. The selection is saved in your browser, which means each computer you sign in from can have its own language. Sign-in screens and the page you are reading right now use the same selector.
The header sensor selector#
The dropdown in the header (next to your account name) is the sensor selector. It scopes the Dashboard, Events, and Approvals pages to the sensor you pick — for example, switching from “prod-web-01” to “prod-db-02” updates all three pages to show only that sensor’s data. Your last selection is remembered in the browser.
If you have no sensors registered yet, the selector shows an Add Sensor button instead. Clicking it opens a small dialog that generates a one-line install command for a new host — the same install command described in Install the sensor.