The Workbench notification area

Every Workbench view has a global notification area on the top next to the repository selection menu. The area displays various statuses and notifications related to cluster status, backup and restore operations, running queries and updates, and Workbench imports.

Icons in the notification area are color-coded:

Blue (informational)

Represents operations that do not affect the performance of your repository or cluster, such as running queries.

Dark orange (warning)

Represents a transient drop in performance, such as when a backup is being created or a cluster node is being replicated. In this state, the system is fully writable and no action is required.

Red (critical)

Represent a state where writes are not possible, such as when a backup is being restored or there are not enough cluster nodes to form a quorum. This state may or may not require some user action for faster recovery.

In addition to that, the background color of the area itself will blink in a paler orange or red color whenever any of the operations is in the warning or critical state.

Clicking on the notification area opens a drop-down menu with additional details. Clicking on individual items in that menu will open the respective monitoring view in Workbench.

The operations that can be displayed in the notification area are:

Queries and updates

Notifies the user about any kind of update or query operations and displays their number next to the icon.

Icon	State	State color
	Running one or more queries	Blue (informational)
	Running one or more updates	Blue (informational)

Workbench imports

Notifies the user about current Workbench import operations and displays their number next to the icon.

Icon	State	State color
	Running one or more imports	Blue (informational)

Backup and restore

Notifies the user about any kind of backup or restore operation that may block other operations.

Icon	State	State color
	Creating backup	Dark orange (warning)
	Creating cloud backup	Dark orange (warning)
	Restoring backup	Red (critical)
	Restoring cloud backup	Red (critical)

Cluster state

When a cluster is running, this icon’s color indicates the state of the cluster.

Icon	State	State color
	In sync The cluster is fully operational.	Blue (informational)
	Recovering The majority of nodes are in sync, but there is a recovery procedure currently underway. The cluster is writable.	Dark orange (warning)
	Unavailable nodes The majority of nodes are available, but some nodes are unavailable. The cluster is writable.	Dark orange (warning)
	Out of sync The majority of the nodes are unavailable and the cluster is NOT writable.	Red (critical)