# Show monitoring on a team screen

> Teams that watch their sites together often put a dashboard on a TV. Display on a screen turns monitoring into a page made for that: big text you can read…

Source: https://infranest.io/docs/display-on-a-screen
Last updated: 2026-11-02

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Put your monitoring on a TV so your whole team can see what's up and what's not, at a glance — no sign-in or menus needed.

## Overview

- **Display on a screen** turns your monitoring into a big, simple view made for a TV or shared screen: large text readable across a room, live updates, and a dark background.
- You can open it yourself on your own device, or create a **screen link** so an office TV can show it without anyone being signed in.

## Open it on this device

1. Go to **Monitoring**.
2. Click **⋯** at the top right and choose **Display on a screen**.
3. Click **Open the wall**.
4. It uses your own sign-in and shows everything you can see in the workspace.
5. Press **Esc** to go back to Monitoring.

## Make a screen link for a TV

A TV in the office shouldn't be signed in as a person. A screen link opens the wall with nobody signed in.

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1. In **Display on a screen**, under **Screen links**, give the link a name, such as "Office TV".
2. Choose **What it shows**: **Every monitor**, or **Only the monitors I pick**.
3. Switch on **Also show servers** if the screen may show your servers: every monitored server appears as a tile with its CPU, the server a problem comes from, and servers that are in trouble. You only see this switch if your role can see servers.
4. Click **Create link**, then copy the link and open it on the screen.

> [!WARNING]
> The link is shown only once. InfraNest keeps only a fingerprint of it, so nobody — not even you — can look it up again. If you lose it, revoke it and make a new one.

## What a screen shows

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- One line at the top: how many problems there are, and how many monitors are up.
- What is wrong right now, shown as the same problem cards you see on the Overview: what failed, what it took down, and for how long.
- Every monitor as a tile, trouble first.
- With servers shown, every monitored server in the workspace appears as a tile too — not only the servers behind the monitors the link shows. A tile shows the server's CPU, or its memory when that is the one running high. A server running hot (CPU above 75% or memory above 85%, below the usual alert lines) turns amber before it becomes a problem, and a server whose agent has stopped reporting says **Agent silent** and for how long.

A screen link never shows incident notes, who changed what, or links into InfraNest. Nothing on it can be clicked to change anything.

## When the network drops

The screen keeps showing its last update and says "Not updating — showing 14:06". It tries again every 30 seconds and as soon as the network comes back.

## Revoke a link

1. Click **Revoke** next to the link.
2. Click **Revoke for good**.

The screen stops showing anything at its next update, and says the link no longer works.

## Tips

> [!NOTE]
> Anyone in the workspace can open the wall on their own device, but making and revoking screen links needs permission to change monitoring. Making, revoking and opening a link are all recorded in the audit log — opening is recorded once a day per link.