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This guide explains how to navigate the Sites section of the dashboard to add, manage, and review Sites across networks.

A Site represents a physical location or network—identified by an IP address, IP subnet, or DDNS URL. Sites are a core part the DNSFilter configuration—they're used to organize, monitor, and apply filtering policies across different network locations and attributes.

The Site dashboard is found under Deployments in both standard and MSP accounts.

Add Site

Select the Add Site button to create a single Network Site, or perform a bulk upload with the Import Sites button.

Site Filters

Top-level drill-down

MSP accounts can view all Organizations Sites in the default page view. Drill down into individual Organizations from three places: the page header, Organization column, or from the Actions menu.

To remove the filter, select the back < icon in the header menu.

Quick Filters

From the Organization dashboard, filter Sites by Status—All, Protected, Unprotected, or Offline—by clicking through the header options.

From the MSP dashboard, quick filters indicate whether a Policy is assigned to a Site. This differs from the Organization view, where the status and icon reflect whether a Site is actively receiving traffic. MSP admins should navigate to individual Organizations to view Site statuses. 

Search bar

Use the search bar to search for a Site by name, or search IP/Hostnames in the dedicated search field.

Use Additional Filters as another way to filter by Site status. 

Customize the dashboard view

The Sites dashboard also has several ways to edit how to view Network Sites according to your preferences.

Column layout menu

Use this quick menu to view the columns that matter most depending on the task at hand:

Default. The preset view set by DNSFilter until another view is saved (more below). After saving changes, the default view updates to the customized settings.

All. Every available data column.

Editable. Highlights editable columns.

Preferences

Refine the dashboard view:

Toggle on/off specific columns. Toggle different columns to show or hide. 

✍️ All columns are included in the Sites export: the show/hide options do not alter the export. 

The default view includes two pinned columns: Name and Actions. Pin any additional column by right-clicking on the column menu. Filter or hide columns from this option as well.

Row density. Select how to view the rows: compact (most dense), standard, or comfortable (least dense).

Save view. All customizations save to local browser storage (if you switch to mobile device or different browser the settings will default). Reset the dashboard view with Use Default.

Export Data. Export a full list of Sites to your inbox in just one click. 

Refresh. Site data won't update unless you select the browser or in-app refresh option. 

Actions menu

The Actions menu is useful to quickly view individual Site information, edit settings, and delete a Site.

Pencil icon. Select the pencil icon to view and update all editable fields. Click the disk icon to save changes or the X icon to cancel the edits.

More actions. Use this menu to delete Sites, drill down into the Site’s Organization, view the Site's Filtering Policy, and jump to Insights reporting, the Query Log, or Audit Log on the Site.

Drop down caret. An at-a-glance view of all the Site’s information represented across the dashboard columns:

• Configuration. The information related to the Site's setup: Organization, Filtering Policy, Block Page, IP address, etc.
• Location. The location data (if entered)
• Advanced. Settings for optional features that support complex or customized deployments, e.g. External ID, DoH setup and VPN Compatibility. Also find the Site Secret Key used for Roaming Client installation.