docs/docs/administration/monitoring.md

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 If you run akkoma, you may be inclined to collect metrics to ensure your instance is running smoothly,
 and that there's nothing quietly failing in the background.
 
-To facilitate this, akkoma exposes prometheus metrics to be scraped.
+To facilitate this, akkoma exposes a dashboard and prometheus metrics to be scraped.
 
 ## Prometheus
 
@@ -31,3 +31,15 @@ Once you have your token of the form `Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN`, you can use that in
   - targets:
     - example.com
 ```
+
+## Dashboard
+
+Administrators can access a live dashboard under `/phoenix/live_dashboard`
+giving an overview of uptime, software versions, database stats and more.
+
+The dashboard also includes a variation of the prometheus metrics, however
+they do not exactly match due to respective limitations of the dashboard
+and the prometheus exporter.
+Even more important, the dashboard collects metrics locally in the browser
+only while the page is open and cannot give a view on their past history.
+For proper monitoring it is recommended to set up prometheus.