Understand the dashboard and health status

Read the assurance status, activity totals, monitoring cards, admin-bar indicator, and WordPress dashboard widget.

Written By Kelsey

Last updated About 1 month ago

The Always Alert dashboard brings configuration, observed notification activity, and monitoring schedules into one operational view.

You can see the same overall health signal in three places:

  • Always Alert → Dashboard;

  • the Always Alert item in the WordPress admin bar;

  • the Always Alert widget on the main WordPress Dashboard.

Assurance Status

The Assurance Status card summarises whether the main protection path is ready.

Typical states include:

  • Setup required: one or more essential settings, such as a valid fallback recipient, still need attention.

  • All clear: the licence and core configuration are active and no current health rule requires attention.

  • Needs attention: a configuration, monitoring, licence, or recent operational signal requires review.

“All clear” describes Always Alert’s own configuration and observed activity. It does not prove downstream inbox delivery.

Activity totals

The dashboard shows aggregate counts for:

  • Eligible notifications observed: messages that matched the active coverage rules.

  • Fallback copies added: eligible messages to which Always Alert added the fallback recipient.

  • Excluded/system emails: messages deliberately skipped by exclusion rules.

  • Top source: the most frequently attributed source so far.

The eligible and injected totals can differ. For example, Always Alert does not add a duplicate fallback address if that address is already present in To, CC, or BCC.

Monitoring cards

The dashboard provides cards for operational features such as:

  • No-Activity Monitoring

  • Weekly Digest

  • Post-Launch Monitoring

  • Emergency Oversight

  • WordPress scheduled events

Each card shows its current state, effective recipient, relevant dates or counts, and a link to configure or investigate it. Expand the details area when you need schedule or history information.

Last seen versus delivered

“Last eligible seen” means Always Alert observed a matching message inside WordPress. “Last fallback copy” means it added the fallback address to a message. Neither timestamp confirms that a downstream provider delivered the message to an inbox.

Use provider logs and mailbox checks when final delivery matters.

A practical review routine

For care-plan sites, review the dashboard when you receive the weekly digest and whenever a no-activity or licence warning appears.

Check:

  1. The licence and Always Alert are active.

  2. The fallback recipient is still correct.

  3. Last-seen activity is plausible for the site.

  4. Scheduled monitoring events have future run times.

  5. Temporary post-launch or emergency modes have not been left on unexpectedly.

  6. Recent logs show expected sources and reasons.

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