Dashboard Overview
The Dashboard is the home page after sign-in. It shows up to twelve widgets in a fixed default layout, and gives you a single dropdown next to the page title to switch between the default and any personal custom dashboards. This page covers what is on the screen, the controls, and the behavior every widget shares so you do not have to relearn each one.
On This Page
The Dashboard is your home page
There is no separate "home" page. After sign-in, StratoLens lands you here. Your last-selected dashboard is remembered per browser, so a return visit picks up where you left off.
Page-Level Controls
From the dashboard dropdown you can switch between dashboards, create a new one with New dashboard at the bottom, or edit and delete custom dashboards by hovering the row. Editing opens the modal walked through on the Custom Dashboards page; deletion confirms inline before applying.
Default Layout
The Default dashboard renders all twelve widgets in a fixed order, subject to permissions. The grid is single-column on mobile and two-column on desktop. Widgets you do not have permission for are hidden, not greyed out, so the layout simply tightens around what you can see.
The twelve default widgets
- Defender Assessments
- High, Medium, and Low severity counts with a Recent Changes table.
- Security Alerts
- Active and In Progress alerts by severity, plus Informational.
- Access Optimization
- Principal-type counts and the top optimization opportunities.
- Infrastructure Overview
- Management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and resources.
- Policy Assignments
- Policies, initiatives, enforcement state, and exemptions.
- Policy Compliance
- Compliant, non-compliant, exempt, conflict, and unknown counts.
- Cost Intelligence
- Period-over-period spend with a top-10 expensive-resources pie.
- Cost Anomalies
- Cost increases and decreases, with a Top 7 Most Significant list.
- Advisor Recommendations
- Active recommendations across the five Azure Advisor categories.
- Orphaned Resources
- Total orphaned, monthly savings, annual savings, and a top-7 list.
- Commitment Utilization
- Reservation and savings-plan utilization, monthly spend, and wastage.
- Commitment Recommendations
- Suggested purchases, underutilized commitments, and expiring commitments.
For a per-widget breakdown of every metric card and click destination, see the four widget-category pages: Security, Infrastructure & Policy, Cost, and Recommendations.
Shared Widget Behavior
Two patterns recur across most widgets. Knowing them once means the per-widget pages only have to call out exceptions.
- Most metric cards are clickable and land on a filtered view of the underlying detail page. Where a card is informational only, the per-widget page calls it out.
- The time-window dropdown on widgets that support one defaults differently per widget. Most security and policy widgets default to 3 days; cost widgets default to 30 days; Cost Anomalies defaults to 14 days.
Click a Recent Changes row to compare two scans
A row in any Recent Changestable represents one scan where counts moved. Clicking it opens that feature's changes page with both the scan and the prior scan it was compared against pre-selected, ready for diffing.
Permissions and Visibility
Widgets only appear if you have permission for the underlying data. There is no greyed-out placeholder, the widget is simply not in the grid. A user without cost permissions will not see any cost widget at all, and a custom dashboard built by someone else will silently drop widgets you cannot view.
Prerequisites
At least one widget-level read permission, and at least one completed scan. Cost data and pre-computed recommendations (Orphaned Resources, both Commitment widgets) take longer than the first scan to populate because cost data is backfilled from Azure Cost Management. Each widget-category page lists the exact permission it needs.
Heads up on first-scan timing
Recent Changes sections need at least two scans to compare, so they only become meaningful after several scans. Run an on-demand scan from Scan Overview if you do not want to wait for the schedule.
Troubleshooting
I do not see widget X
Answer
Either you do not have the permission required for that widget (it is hidden, not greyed out), or your active custom dashboard does not include it. Switch to Default from the dropdown, or edit your custom dashboard to add the widget back.
My dashboard always reverts to Default in a new browser
Answer
Active selection is stored per browser. Switching browsers, opening incognito, or clearing site data resets you to Default. Re-pick your dashboard from the dropdown and it will stick for that browser.
Numbers in the widget do not match the detail page
Answer
The most likely cause is a different filter applied on the detail page, for example a hidden-recommendations toggle, a different time window, or a different scope. Reload to refresh the widget, then compare the widget's window with the detail page's filters side by side.