Introducing the Oracle Cloud Console’s new home page

December 18, 2024 | 4 minute read
Debra Maranta
Senior Principal Product Manager
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As you log in to the Oracle Cloud Console, what’s the first thing you want to see? Do you wish you had a personalized launch pad that lets you quickly access your most-used services and resources? Wouldn’t it be great if your home page was tailored to your specific needs, with customizable widgets and layouts that put the most important, actionable information at your fingertips?

We’ve listened to your feedback, and we’re excited to announce a major refresh of the Oracle Cloud Console home page, designed to make your cloud management experience more intuitive, efficient, and tailored to your unique needs. And this change is just the beginning. We have more Console enhancements on the horizon, including Console-wide updates to improve navigation and uniformity across services.

Let’s now dive into the details of what you can expect from the new Oracle Cloud Console home page. 

Discover the personalized window to your tenancy

The Oracle Cloud Console’s new home page offers a modular design that’s easy to customize. Key Console features are available in widgets that you can position on the home page based on your preference: Drag and drop or hide entirely. The gallery of home page widgets provides a personalized window into your tenancy, enabling you to quickly find important insights and take appropriate action. 
 

Customized widgets on the Console home page.

Whether you’re looking to customize your home page or streamline your workflow the widget gallery gives you full control over how it looks and what content you see. What’s more, some widgets are even tailored to display content based on user personas, offering a more relevant and personalized experience depending on your role or preferences. 

Widgets can vary based on realm and include the following options:

  • Resources: Quickly navigate to resources that you’ve viewed or created most recently in your tenancy or access your saved searches with resource collections. Use the resource explorer to easily manage tens of thousands of resources with ease through powerful search, dynamic lists, bulk actions, and multiregion support.
     

Resources widget on the home page.

  • Recommendations: See suggestions based on your configuration and utilization for how to lower costs, improve performance, optimize availability, and fine-tune security 

  • Cost analysis: Review billing and usage information for your subscriptions 

  • Services: Easily access your recently visited services or pin the ones you use most 

  • What’s new: Explore recent OCI releases, read about major launches in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) blog, and stay up to date with important information from OCI

  • Service spotlight: Explore OCI services that might be new and relevant to you

  • Getting started: Jumpstart your OCI learning and onboarding based on your role with suggestions for courses, tutorials, workshops, and more

  • Learn: Continue to increase your knowledge of OCI with personalized learning recommendations

  • Alarms: Easily monitor cloud resources for which you have set up alarms using the Monitoring service

  • Announcements: Get alerts for operational events, scheduled maintenance, and other important tenancy information 

  • Build: Navigate directly to create tasks, to spin up an instance, virtual machine (VM), database, or any other OCI resource

  • User management: Quickly navigate to create users and groups and configure multifactor authentication

Try it yourself

The new home page is now available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure commercial regions with expanded availability to other realms soon to follow. We welcome you to sign up for the Oracle Cloud Free Trial or sign in to your account to check out the new home page! When you arrive on the new home page for the first time, you can take a tour to learn about the changes. 

Note that dashboards are now available from the menu.

Access to Dashboards from the menu

More is coming soon, so do tell us about the widgets you want us to build. After you've had a chance to use the new Oracle Cloud Console home page, we’d love to hear from you! Your input and feedback are invaluable in helping us shape the future of the console to ensure that it continues to meet your needs and expectations. The easiest way to share your thoughts with us is to select the Share feedback button on the "What's new" widget.

Share feedback using the What's new widget

 

 

Debra Maranta

Senior Principal Product Manager


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