Dashboard Overview
A tour of the dashboard: the sidebar sections, the traffic chip in the top bar, and what Active versus Buy means on a product.
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The dashboard is the signed-in area of the site. Everything you buy, configure and monitor lives here.
The sidebar
The left sidebar is the main navigation. It has three groups.
| Item | Opens | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboard | /dashboard | The landing page, with a summary of your products |
| My Products | /dashboard/products | The product list, and the products themselves |
| Residential Proxies | /dashboard/products/rotating-residential | Direct link to the residential product |
| Mobile Proxies | /dashboard/products/mobile | Direct link to the mobile product |
| My Account | /dashboard/account | Email, proxy checking preference, password |
| Billing | /dashboard/billing | Your invoices |
| Docs | /docs | This documentation |
| Contact Us | support@lightningbytes.com | Opens an email to support |
Both products are always listed, whether or not you own them. That is deliberate: an inactive product takes you to its buy surface rather than hiding the option.
Active and inactive products
Each product shows one of two states.
Active. You hold traffic for that product. The product page opens with its full set of tabs: Configuration, Users, Usage and Add Traffic.
Buy. You do not hold traffic for that product yet. The sidebar shows a Buy pill, and the product page opens directly on its pricing tables. There are no tabs to switch between, because there is nothing to configure until you have traffic.
Note
An inactive product page deliberately hides its Configuration, Users and Usage tabs rather than disabling them. Editing the page URL cannot reveal them.
The top bar
The top bar holds the traffic chip and the navigation for small screens.
Traffic chip. Shows your available traffic at a glance. It is the number to watch before a large collection run.
Menu button. On narrow screens the sidebar collapses; the button opens it as a drawer. Selecting any item closes the drawer automatically.
On a phone or narrow window
The layout stacks. The sidebar becomes a drawer opened from the top bar, and the grid columns in tables and cards become single columns. Everything remains reachable; only the arrangement changes.
Where to go next
- My Account for your profile and preferences
- Billing overview for invoices
- Generating proxy endpoints for the main event