Check the control plane
Open Manage → System health and read each check’s status and observed time. Towbar checks Temporal at startup and every five minutes; a result older than 15 minutes is stale. Choose Run checks for a fresh reading. A provider’s remote availability is checked by an actual provider operation, not by this page. If the dashboard is unavailable, use the host CLI:doctor is read-only and separates installation, database, service, and public-origin problems. See Troubleshooting before changing installation state.
Check a server
Open its Checks page and choose Check server when the latest result is old. Inspect SSH trust, setup status, available capacity, and the check’s final result. Server setup and a check are separate operations: a prepared host can later lose SSH access or fill its disk. If setup is pending or failed, follow Prepare a server.Check a workload
Read the app or resource’s current state, health, and last checked time. Then inspect its latest deployment and runtime logs. A build can succeed while health fails because the process listens on the wrong interface or port, starts too slowly, lacks a runtime secret, or returns an unhealthy response. Comparecontainer.port and health in the app manifest or resource manifest with the actual process.
Missing or stale observations should be investigated as missing data. They do not establish recovery or zero utilization. Scout Agent adds continuous metrics and report-age alerts, while alert rules decide when observations become incidents.