--- name: databases-for-redis-learn-dashboard-overview title: The Dashboard overview description: The _Overview_ page shows you information about your IBM Cloud® Databases for Redis deployment. The overview includes essential identifying information. last-updated: 2025-05-14 --- > ## Documentation Index > The table of contents for this documentation set is at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?format=markdown > The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt > Use these files to discover more information as needed. # The Dashboard overview {: #dashboard-overview} ## Overview {: #dashboard-overview-overview} The _Overview_ page shows you information about your IBM Cloud® Databases for Redis deployment. The overview includes essential identifying information. ### Deployment details {: #dashboard-overview-deployment-details} - **Type:** The type of database that is offered by the service, and the database version that your service uses. - **CRN (deployment ID):** The ID is a [CRN (Cloud Resource Name)](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-crn&format=markdown) that uniquely identifies the database deployment. The CRN is used to refer to the database in the API and can be used with the CLI. The _Overview_ pane shows details of your service. ### Resources {: #dashboard-overview-resources} The resources tile contains information and configuration options on the size and resource usage of your deployment. You can [scale disk, memory, and CPU](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-resources-scaling&format=markdown) and [configure Autoscaling](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-autoscaling&format=markdown). ### Recent tasks {: #dashboard-overview-recent-tasks} Every time that you make administrative changes to your service (such as scaling, or taking a manual backup), a task starts up. The _Recent Tasks_ panel shows the task name and progress bar for any running tasks, and a list of the most recent completed tasks. Depending on how busy your deployment is, successful tasks can be shown for 24-48 hours. Unsuccessful tasks can show for 7-8 days. Tasks can also be retrieved from the [Cloud Databases API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/cloud-databases-api/cloud-databases-api-v5#listdeploymenttasks) and [CLI plug-in](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-cli-plugin?topic=databases-cli-plugin-cdb-reference&format=markdown#deployment-tasks-list). A historical record of tasks from any time period is available through the [IBM Cloud® Activity Tracker Event Routing integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-at_events&format=markdown). ### Observability {: #dashboard-overview-observability} The _Observability_ tab provides access to the IBM Cloud monitoring, logging, and event tracking integrations available for your deployment. - [IBM Cloud® Activity Tracker Event Routing](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-at_events&format=markdown) - [IBM® Cloud Logs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-logging&format=markdown) - [IBM Cloud® Monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-monitoring&format=markdown) ### Endpoints {: #dashboard-overview-endpoints} The _Endpoints_ pane within the _Overview_ page contains connection strings for your deployment. Each tab contains connection information that is tailored to the type of connection or the protocol that uses it. Basic information includes _hostname_, _port_, the TLS service proprietary certificate, TLS/SSL parameters, and the default database of your deployment. Reference tables for the different connection types are available on the [Getting connection strings](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-connection-strings&format=markdown) page. Connection strings reflect whether your deployment uses public endpoints, private endpoints or both. You can configure which endpoints are available on your deployment. For more information, see [Service endpoints integration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-service-endpoints&format=markdown). You can manage your Databases for Redis service through the Cloud Databases API. For more information, see [API reference](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/cloud-databases-api/cloud-databases-api-v5#introduction). ## Backup and restore {: #dashboard-overview-backups} The _Backups_ tab is the UI for managing your deployments backups. All of the available backups are listed with their timestamps. Click a backup to grab its ID or to restore it into a new deployment. For more information, see [Managing backups](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-dashboard-backups&format=markdown). ## Settings {: #dashboard-overview-settings} The _Settings_ tab contains the UI for many of the tunable settings for your deployment, such as the following: - View encryption details. Encryption at rest is enabled for all Databases for Redis deployments. If you brought your own encryption key from [Key Protect](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-key-protect&format=markdown), the panel provides a link to your Key Protect instance and the _Encryption Key_ field has the name of the key. - [Change the admin password](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-user-management&interface=ui&format=markdown#user-management-set-admin-password-ui) - [Implement or modify an IP allowlist](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-allowlisting&format=markdown) - [Context-based restrictions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-cbr&format=markdown) ## Service credentials {: #dashboard-overview-service-cred} You can generate a new set of credentials for cases where you want to manually [connect an app](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-ibmcloud-app&format=markdown) or [external consumer](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/databases-for-redis?topic=databases-for-redis-external-app&format=markdown) to an IBM Cloud service. For more information, see [Adding and viewing credentials](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-service_credentials&format=markdown). ## View docs {: #dashboard-overview-view-docs} The _View docs_ link from the `Actions` drop list opens the main documentation page for Databases for Redis in a new tab.