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Traefik Dashboard

Updated Feb 05, 2023 ·

Overview​

The dashboard gives a clear view of your traffic system and running services.

  • Quick health check of traffic and services
  • Helps with troubleshooting and monitoring
  • Shows warnings and errors

To setup the dashboard and a simple test service, please see Deploy Traefik with Docker.

Access the Dashboard​

To access the Traefik dashboard:

  • Open http://0.0.0.0:8080 to access the dashboard.
  • Port 80 handles traffic; port 8080 shows the dashboard.
  • Dashboard shows HTTP, TCP, UDP services and key features.

NOTE: If you get ERR_ADDRESS_INVALID when you try to access http://0.0.0.0:8080 in your dashboard, this means the browser cannot use the specific address as a destination address:

Instead, use the localhost:

http://localhost:8080/

Routers and Services​

Routers allow you easily check traffic flow and service health.

  • Routers handle incoming traffic.
  • Services are backend targets.
  • Shows entry points, status, and container IPs.

For example, the dashboard itself runs under the dashboard@internal service:

If you click the HTTP Services tab, you will see all the active services. In this example, one of them is whoami-01-overview@docker:

If you click the service, you can see more details like health and endpoints:

Open a terminal and scale the whoami service to three containers:

docker compose scale whoami=3
info

The whoami service is deployed with Docker. Please see Deploy Traefik with Docker.

Going back to your browser, you should now see three servers listed for the whoami service.