# Digital Signs

Full-screen status displays for NOC rooms and wall monitors.

Source: https://statusdashboard.com/docs/status-dashboards/digital-signs

> This is a plan-gated feature. If it isn't available in your account, visit the [Billing](/docs/org-mgmt/billing) page or contact support to review your options.

Digital Signs are full-screen status views published at `{dashboard-host}/sign/{path}` on your platform subdomain or custom domain. Each sign shows live component status for a subset of components wired on that dashboard.

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## Configuration
Configure signs on the dashboard **Digital Sign** tab.

### Signs
Create one or more signs per dashboard (within your plan limit). Each sign has its own public path, title, optional message, and enable toggle. Changes apply after you save on the **Digital Sign** tab.

### Display options
The **Display** section on each sign controls compact layout, dark mode, and an optional per-sign logo. These options require the **Custom branding** plan feature.

When Custom branding is enabled, compact layout uses denser component rows and dark mode switches the sign from a light background (default) to a dark background suited for dim NOC rooms. The optional sign logo appears beside the title in the title band — separate from status-page header, main, and email logos. PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, or SVG files up to **2 MB**; PNG or SVG with a transparent background recommended. Ideal dimensions: **192 × 40 px**.

When Custom branding is not on your plan, the Display section shows what is included with an upgrade. Any display options you configured earlier (for example during a trial) remain saved on the sign. The public sign uses the standard light layout without compact mode, dark mode, or logo until Custom branding is enabled again.

### Components on a sign
A sign shows live status for a **subset** of the components on this dashboard. You choose that subset on the **Digital Sign** tab; the public status page still uses whatever you configured on the [Components](/docs/status-dashboards/components) tab.

**Prerequisite:** a component must be wired to this dashboard on the **Components** tab before it appears in the sign's **Available** list.

**Add or remove on the sign:** use **+** in **Available** to include a component, or remove it from **Selected**. This only affects the sign. It does not remove the component from the dashboard or the status page.

**Display order:** reorder selected components with the up and down controls. Order is per sign and independent of the status page order on the **Components** tab.

### Component groups
Each sign has its own grouping settings. They do not copy from the **Components** tab and do not change how the status page is organized.

1. Turn on **Group components** for the sign.
2. Add named groups (optional descriptions), reorder groups, and assign each selected component to a group with the group dropdown, or leave it ungrouped.

Named groups always render expanded on the sign display — digital signs are static wall monitors, not interactive status pages.

Deleting a group on the sign does not remove its components from the sign. Those components move to the ungrouped list. Group names are required before save.

### When components are removed elsewhere
| Action                                                                    | Effect on digital signs                                                            |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Remove a component from **Selected** on the **Digital Sign** tab and save | Removed from that sign only. Still on the dashboard and status page.               |
| Unwire a component on the **Components** tab                              | Removed automatically from **every sign** on this dashboard.                       |
| Delete a component in [Components](/app/components)                       | Removed automatically from **every sign** on **every dashboard** that included it. |

These cleanups only drop the component from each sign's component list. They do not delete sign records or other sign settings. If a sign has no components left, it can still be enabled; the display will show an empty component area until you add components again.

## Public URL
Example: `https://acme.statusdashboard.io/sign/noc-lobby`

## Access control
Digital signs inherit the parent dashboard's access rules:

* **IP allowlist** — enforced when configured on the dashboard.
* **SSO** — when SSO is enabled on the dashboard, each browser must complete (or reuse) an authenticated session before the sign loads. There is no SSO bypass for wall displays.

Disabled dashboards and disabled signs return **404** (same as the public status page).

## Wall displays and kiosk mode
Digital signs are built for dedicated browsers on NOC walls, lobby monitors, and other always-on displays. Open the sign URL in full-screen kiosk mode and leave it running — no clicks or navigation required.

**Browser support:** Digital signs currently support **Google Chrome** only. Use Chrome (or a Chromium-based kiosk browser) on the display. Other browsers may not layout or scale correctly.

| Update                    | Timing                 | What to expect                                                                                                                                                   |
| ------------------------- | ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Status updates**        | About every 30 seconds | New incidents, recoveries, and overall status update automatically. No manual browser refresh needed.                                                            |
| **Configuration changes** | About every 30 seconds | Edits saved on the **Digital Sign** tab (title, message, components, layout, logo, and so on) appear on the sign shortly after save.                             |
| **Daily reload**          | Every 24 hours         | The sign reloads itself to stay reliable on displays that run for days or weeks. You may see a brief flash; the browser returns to the same sign URL on its own. |

The sign scales for large fixed monitors (1080p through 4K). No site header, footer, or navigation appears on the sign surface.