# The standard web dashboard The standard web dashboard is the heart of Netdata's performance troubleshooting toolkit. You've probably seen it before:  Learn more about how dashboards work and how they're populated using the `dashboards.js` file in our [web dashboards overview](../). By default, Netdata starts a web server for its dashboard at port `19999`. Open up your web browser of choice and navigate to `http://SERVER-IP:19999`, or `http://localhost:19999` on `localhost`. Netdata uses an [internal, static-threaded web server](../server/) to host the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files that make up the standard dashboard. You don't have to configure anything to access it, although you can adjust [your settings](../server/#other-netdataconf-web-section-options) in the `netdata.conf` file, or run Netdata behind an Nginx proxy, and so on. ## Navigating the standard dashboard Beyond charts, the standard dashboard can be broken down into three key areas: 1. [**Sections**](#sections) 2. [**Menus/submenus**](#menus) 3. [**Nodes menu**](#nodes-menu)  ### Sections Netdata is broken up into multiple **sections**, such as **System Overview**, **CPU**, **Disk**, and more. Inside each section you'll find a number of charts, broken down into [contexts](../#contexts) and [families](../#families). An example of the **Memory** section on a Linux desktop system.  All sections and their associated charts appear on a single "page," so all you need to do to view different sections is scroll up and down the page. But it's usually quicker to use the [menus](#menus). ### Menus **Menus** appears on the right-hand side of the standard dashboard. Netdata generates a menu for each section, and menus link to the section they're associated with.  Most menu items will contain several **submenu** entries, which represent any [families](../#families) from that section. Netdata automatically generates these submenu entries. Here's a **Disks** menu with several submenu entries for each disk drive and partition Netdata recognizes.  ### Nodes menu The nodes menu appears in the top-left corner of the standard dashboard and is labeled with the hostname of the system Netdata is monitoring. Clicking on it will display a drop-down menu of any nodes you might have connected via the [Netdata registry](../../registry/). By default, you'll find nothing under the **My nodes** heading, but you can try out any of the demo Netdata nodes to see how the nodes menu works.  Once you add nodes via [Netdata Cloud](../../docs/netdata-cloud/) or a [private registry](../../registry/#run-your-own-registry), you will see them appear under the **My nodes** heading.  The nodes menu will also show the master netdata node and all slave nodes streaming to that master, if you have [configured streaming](../../streaming).  ## Customizing the standard dashboard Netdata stores information about individual charts in the `dashboard_info.js` file. This file includes section and subsection headings, descriptions, colors, titles, tooltips, and other information for Netdata to render on the dashboard. For example, here is how `dashboard_info.js` defines the **System Overview** section. ```javascript netdataDashboard.menu = { 'system': { title: 'System Overview', icon: '<i class="fas fa-bookmark"></i>', info: 'Overview of the key system metrics.' }, ``` If you want to customize this information, you should avoid editing `dashboard_info.js` directly. These changes are not persistent; Netdata will overwrite the file when it's updated. Instead, you should create a new file with your customizations. We created an example file at [`dashboard_info_custom_example.js`](dashboard_info_custom_example.js). You can copy this to a new file with a name of your choice in the `web/` directory. This directory changes based on your operating system and installation method. If you're on a Linux system, it should be at `/usr/share/netdata/web/`. ```shell cd /usr/share/netdata/web/ sudo cp dashboard_info_custom_example.js your_dashboard_info_file.js ``` Edit the file with your customizations. For example: ```javascript customDashboard.menu = { system: { title: "Testing, testing, 1 2 3", icon: '<i class="fas fa-thumbs-up"></i>', info: "This is overwritten info for the system overview section!" } }; ``` Finally, tell Netdata where you placed your customization file by replacing `your_dashboard_info_file.js` below. ```conf [web] custom dashboard_info.js = your_dashboard_info_file.js ``` Once you restart Netdata, refresh the dashboard to find your custom configuration:  ## Custom dashboards For information on creating custom dashboards from scratch, see the [custom dashboards](custom/) or [Atlassian Confluence dashboards](confluence/) guides. []()