Widgets, shortcuts and Siri
The widgets, shortcuts and Siri show the state of your resources and your month-to-date cost without opening the app. They use the data the app last loaded and make no network requests of their own.
The web app has no widgets, shortcuts or voice commands.
Add the widget
Section titled “Add the widget”- Touch and hold an empty area of the home screen and add a widget.
- Search for Cloud Viewer and choose Infrastructure health.
- Pick the small or medium size.
- Touch and hold an empty area of the home screen and open the widgets.
- Find Cloud Viewer and drag Infrastructure health to the home screen. It takes two cells across and one down.
- To see more, drag it wider: it switches to the wide layout.
Before the app has loaded data for the first time, the widget shows “Open Cloud Viewer to load your projects”.
What the widget shows
Section titled “What the widget shows”The widget is a short version of the dashboard’s fleet block: three ranked rows and a summary line. The rows are ranked as on the dashboard: what is wrong now first, then what is fine now but had problems within the window, then the row whose cost rose most against last month. There is no “alerts only” mode. If nothing qualifies for a row, the widget shows no rows.
Each row shows the status dot, the name (shortened if needed) and the history strip. On iPhone the strip sits under the name, as in the app; on Android it ends the same line.
| Size | What a row shows |
|---|---|
| Small (iPhone), 2×1 (Android) | dot, name, a 7-cell strip |
| Medium (iPhone), wide (Android) | the same, with a 14-cell strip and the month-to-date amount |
The strip shows the most recent days, one cell per day, in the dashboard’s colours: green reachable, amber degraded, red down, grey no data. A row with no history has no strip.
The summary line
Section titled “The summary line”The last line is always the summary, in the same format as on the dashboard:
the number of resources, the count per colour and, on the medium and wide
sizes, the month-to-date total: 15 ●2 ●1 ●12 · €34.90. It is never
replaced by a fourth row, because it is the one line that speaks for
everything the widget does not show.
When no row qualifies, the widget shows “All healthy” with the summary line below it. “All healthy” is not shown while any resource is grey, because Cloud Viewer has no data to confirm that resource is healthy.
Updates and taps
Section titled “Updates and taps”The widget shows what the app last saved, so it uses no extra battery or data. It updates whenever the app refreshes.
When a warning or critical alert arrives as a push notification, the notification updates the widget before you open the app: the counts change, and a row already on the widget turns amber or red.
Tapping the widget opens the alert list when something is wrong, and the dashboard otherwise.
When the data is an hour old or older, the widget shows its age, for example “Updated 3 hours ago”.
Tapping the widget opens the dashboard. Tapping the summary line opens the Resources tab.
Lock screen (iPhone)
Section titled “Lock screen (iPhone)”iPhone has two lock-screen widgets. Neither shows rows. The circular one shows how many resources are healthy out of the total. The rectangular one shows the number of alerts and the top alert, or “All healthy” and the number of resources when there are no alerts.
Siri and Shortcuts (iPhone)
Section titled “Siri and Shortcuts (iPhone)”On iPhone, you can ask Siri:
- “Is anything on fire in Cloud Viewer?” or “Check my servers in Cloud Viewer”: how many resources are healthy, and the firing alerts if any.
- “Show my Cloud Viewer alerts”: opens the app on the alert list.
- “What’s my cloud costing in Cloud Viewer?”: the month-to-date cost. It comes from your team’s billed costs, so it needs Pro or Team.
The phrases exist in English only for now. The answers use the latest data on the device. If that data is more than five minutes old, the answer says how old it is (“as of 10 minutes ago”). The same three actions are in the Shortcuts app as Check Infrastructure Health, Show Alerts and Month-to-Date Cloud Cost, for your own automations.
Launcher shortcuts (Android)
Section titled “Launcher shortcuts (Android)”Touch and hold the Cloud Viewer icon on Android for two shortcuts: Alerts opens the firing alerts, and Costs opens this month’s costs. While an alert is firing, a third shortcut appears, named after the affected resource, and opens that alert directly. It disappears when nothing is firing.
Android has no voice commands for Cloud Viewer.