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Tabs And Views

This page describes what each top-level dashboard tab is responsible for.

Interactive Data Browser

This is the primary live-browsing surface.

  • The default instrument is Aurora Power Supply.
  • Ceilometer and Cloud Radar show recent height-time plots.
  • Meteorology, Radiation, and Aurora Power Supply show fixed summary layouts rather than a freeform variable picker.
  • WXcam shows the stitched MP4 browser for FISH HDR and PANO HDR.

The share link, download, freshness, and availability UI are rendered beneath the content area so the data surface stays visually primary. Freshness and availability are populated just after the page opens so the first browser paint does not wait for a Zarr timestamp scan.

The interactive browser keeps the last rendered pane warm per instrument, remembers the instrument-specific control state, reuses recent rendered windows, and shows a cached latest quicklook or loading skeleton while a refresh is in progress. Rapid control changes are debounced so only the newest requested view renders.

For Aurora Power Supply, long interactive windows use the same display-time preparation and per-trace time downsampling approach as the quicklooks, and live latest windows are rounded into 5-minute cache buckets. The latest Aurora Power Supply, Meteorology, and Radiation interactive views can also start from prewarmed Plotly JSON created by the quicklook generators. This keeps the browser responsive without changing the underlying Zarr stores.

On small screens, the main controls are collapsible and stack vertically, while the plots remain a tall scrollable data surface. If a selected window has no available samples, the empty view reports the UTC window and points to the next useful check.

The current tab, instrument, and important control values are also kept in the browser URL. This makes mobile recovery less painful: if the phone backgrounds or reloads the page, the URL can restore the selected view even when the original websocket session is gone.

Science Quicklooks

This tab shows archived science-facing products.

  • most instruments show daily PNG quicklooks
  • WXcam is special: it uses an image-driven hourly grid built from HDR JPGs nearest the :30 mark in each UTC hour

The quicklook image pane, freshness strip, and availability bar are lazy-loaded when the tab is first opened so the initial Interactive Data Browser page can appear sooner. PNG quicklooks are displayed through a small derived cache that trims only trailing blank white canvas. The original quicklook PNGs remain unchanged for download and archival use. The dashboard wraps displayed PNGs in responsive HTML so tall quicklooks scale to the browser width without reserving their original pixel height as blank page space.

House Keeping Quicklooks

This tab contains archived operational or diagnostic products such as:

  • HK_Met
  • HK_ASFS
  • HK_APS
  • HK_Ceilometer
  • HK_Radar
  • HK_WXcam
  • HK_Operations

These products are intentionally separate from the science quicklooks so the science tab can stay focused on the most interpretable instrument products. HK_Ceilometer and HK_Radar are real diagnostic views: Ceilometer uses CL61 time-only support variables, while Radar reads RPG LV1 housekeeping variables from the raw mirror.

The housekeeping image pane, freshness strip, and availability bar are also lazy-loaded on first use.

Operations Dashboard

This tab is a live status dashboard rather than a static quicklook browser. It starts its periodic refresh only after the tab is opened.

It shows:

  • traffic-light indicators for source hosts, processing, transfers, and mirror verification
  • root-cause groups that separate source, source-sync/network, local processing, GWS transfer, and dashboard/render symptoms
  • seven-day trend cards for storage, SOC, voltage, source lag, and GWS lag
  • dashboard HTTP endpoint health and dashboard/infra git state
  • Aurora Power Supply battery voltage from DCInverterVolts, scored green above 52 V, amber from 50-52 V, and red below 50 V
  • Aurora Power Supply battery state of charge from BatterySOC, scored green at or above 50 %, amber from 25-50 %, and red below 25 %
  • Aurora Power Supply internal temperature from InternalTemperature, scored green below 40 C, amber from 40-45 C, and red at 45 C or above
  • storage cards for the source hosts, the local Aurora host, and the JASMIN GWS
  • per-stream archive and prune-readiness status

For the archived operations products, see Operations products.