The Sustainability Dashboard is designed to help users monitor and improve the environmental impact of their websites on Umbraco Cloud. The dashboard provides insights and metrics related to carbon footprint and sustainable practices, enabling organizations to align their digital presence with their sustainability goals.
Daily CO2 emission calculation: The dashboard is updated daily with new CO2 emission estimates.
Historical data: The dashboard tracks monthly and yearly CO2 emission estimates, allowing for trend analysis over time
Comparative analysis: Users can compare CO2 emissions across their projects to identify high-impact areas and improvement opportunities.
To estimate CO2 emissions from the infrastructure deployed to host Umbraco Cloud websites, we use Cloud Carbon Footprint (CCF). followed by dividing CO2 emissions among websites according to their shared resource usage.
In order to improve the estimate for websites that are running in shared pools we divide emissions based on metrics/usage coefficients.
In its current iteration the sustainability dashboard shows CO2 emissions emitted by backend compute infrastructure - Azure App Service. The dashboard does not show emissions generated by networking, frontend website impressions or emissions generated by the Umbraco Cloud Service.
The summarized algorithm currently in use is:
Cloud Carbon Footprint(CCF) provides a comprehensive methodology for estimating CO2 emissions in their documentation. We use CCF to calculate the Sum of environmental CO2 emissions.
For websites on shared infrastructure in Umbraco Cloud, we calculate a usage coefficient to improve the accuracy of CO2 emission estimates. This coefficient divides the CO2 emissions of the shared pool among the websites using it.
The usage coefficient for a website is based on metrics such as:
CPU
Memory usage
The usage coefficient for a database is based on DTUs used etc.
Website Resource Usage: For compute resources we evaluate metrics such as CPU, memory or disk, for storage resources DTUs and disk are considered. Total Pool Usage: The total resource usage of the shared pool of resources.
Log in to Umbraco Cloud: Use your credentials to log in to your Umbraco Cloud account.
Navigate to the Organization view
Navigate to the Dashboard: From the left menu, select Sustainability.
Monitor Regularly: Regularly check the Sustainability Dashboard to stay informed about your website's carbon footprint.
Implement Recommendations: Follow up to date sustainability best practices.
Optimize Resource Usage: Analyze websites resource usage and identify high-consumption areas to optimize resource usage
The Umbraco Cloud Portal helps you manage your Umbraco Cloud project. From here, you can view and manage all your Cloud projects in one place.
When you log in to the Umbraco Cloud Portal, the projects dashboard gives an overview of all your Umbraco Cloud projects. Here, you can view all the projects you've created or have been added to as a team member.
You can see the project's environments, usage for each project, and which plans it is on. You can also see whether it is a baseline or baseline-child project.
In the top-right corner of the Umbraco Cloud Portal, you will find:
Create New Project - Allows you to create more projects using the plan you wish and a project will be ready for you within a few minutes.
Notifications - You can also see notifications for your different projects. For example: if your project has been automatically updated or if an upgrade has failed.
Profile - Manage projects, subscriptions, pending invites, organization information, profile details, view release notes, and log out of the portal.
In the right-side corner of the Umbraco Cloud Portal, you can enable Show environments and Show usage of the project from the Settings option.
Collapse Groups allows you to collapse the groups on the project Dashboard. You can also expand the groups depending on the view you prefer.
To get a better overview of your projects, it is possible to sort your projects into Groups. This can be done by clicking the Edit Groups button on the top right side of the Umbraco Cloud Portal.
After clicking on Edit Groups, you can create new Groups to sort your project in and create a better overview for yourself.
Click Add Group to give the group a name and then drag and drop your projects into the group of your choice.
In the bottom-right corner of the Umbraco Cloud Portal, you'll find a chat bubble. This is where you can reach out to the Umbraco HQ Support Warriors, should you have any questions regarding your Umbraco Cloud projects.
With the Starter and Standard plan, you are only entitled to support regarding specific issues regarding the Cloud platform. If you are on a Professional plan, you are entitled to support through the chat regarding implementation and issues with the CMS. For more information on plans and pricing, see Umbraco Cloud plans.
When you click on the User Profile link, you will find the following options:
Projects
Manage Subscriptions
Pending Invites
Organizations
Profile
Release Notes
Logout
Managing your projects has been made even simpler with Umbraco Cloud. If you go to a particular project, you can get a quick overview of the environments in your project.
Project Name along with the options to Create environments, Invite User, or Settings section.
Environment name along with the option to Restart the environment, view Error Logs and Logs, Clone project, and access Power Tools (Kudu).
Links to View errors, View page (frontend), Go to backoffice, and the Environment history.
Option to view change details.
While managing the environments on your project, click on Create Environments to add and/or remove environments as needed. Read more about how the number of environments varies depending on the plan you are on, in the Project Overview article.
Aside from these features, it's also from the project view that changes are deployed from one Cloud environment to another. Find out more in the Cloud-to-Cloud article.
In the Settings section, you will find a lot more options to configure your project.
On Umbraco Cloud, you can receive an invitation from different projects. These project details are available in the Pending Invites tab. On the Pending Invites page, as a user, you will see the following details:
Project Name
Invited by
The expiration date of the invite
Invitation status
Options to approve, reject, or delete the invitations that have expired.
On Umbraco Cloud, it is possible to get an organization to manage your company's projects. The Organization Projects page displays an overview of all the projects created by you and members of your company. Find out more in the Organization article.
The organization page contains sections displaying information about:
Members
Projects
Access Rights
Payment Methods
Payment History
Subscriptions
The Profile consists of the following information:
Name: The name that is displayed on Umbraco Cloud.
Email: This email address is used for logging in to Umbraco Cloud and will receive email notifications from the Umbraco Cloud Portal.
It is not possible to change this email address at a later point.
* Telephone: The contact number of the user. * Edit profile: Allows you to update and ensure that your information is valid and up to date for your Umbraco Cloud profile. * Change Password: Change the password for your Umbraco Cloud account from here.
On the Umbraco Cloud portal, you can now find the link to the Release Notes in the Profile dropdown. Release notes are published every month and list the most relevant fixes and features added to the portal.
Each environment has an error log that appears only if you have any unread errors in that specific environment. You can view the errors by clicking on View errors in the environment menu.
Once you're there, you can manually mark each error as read which will move it from the "New" section to the "Read" section. Errors marked as read will be permanently deleted after 30 days.
During development, you can happen to gather a large number of errors which might cause the error page to load slowly. A fix for that would be to locally connect to the database for that specific environment and delete the errors. You can read more about connecting to the environment database locally in the section about Database on Umbraco Cloud.
Environment errors are stored in the UCErrorLog table.
The query below will delete 90% of the errors. The query will always delete the oldest errors first. You can tweak the query to delete any percentage of errors by changing the number in the first row.
On Umbraco Cloud it is possible to setup an Organization. An organization is handy if you are managing many projects for different customers. It is also handy if you need to manage permissions for multiple users (such as developers, content editors etc.).
With an organization, you get an overview of all projects and members that are part of it. You can also manage payment methods for projects, as well as many other functions outlined on this page.
In the following sections, we will go through the different options that are available to an Organization:
Are you interested in getting an organization, or need a project added to a different organization? Please reach out to the Support Team in the small chat box in your project overview.
In the Information section of the Organization, you can find all the details about your Organization. If there are any changes to your details, you can change them here.
In the Members section, you can view current members, pending invites, and see the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) status for the Members of your Organization. You can also set up different permissions for your Members, such as Read, Write, and Administrators for your organization by adjusting their Roles.
Members added to your organization can see different details about their organization based on the user group they are added to. Currently there are three different groups, Read, Write and Admin. Below you can see what each user group has access to under the organization they are a part of.
Organization Members with Admin Access can do the following in the organization:
Update the organization's information
Invite others to the organization
Invite Users to project under the organization
Edit organization team
See pending invitations
See organization information
See organization projects
See payment history
See subscriptions
See organization Members
See payment history
Handle Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for users
Handle payment methods
Change permissions for Members
Remove role from users
Organization members with Write Access can do the following in the organization:
See Organization information
See Organization Members
Invite to the organization
See pending invitations
Organization Members with Read Access can do the following in the organization:
See Organization information
See Organization Members
Being a Member of an organization does not give access to any projects under it. To get access to a project under an organization, you need to be invited to the project. This can be done by either someone who is already part of the project or an administrator in your organization.
When working in organizations on Umbraco Cloud, as a company, you can enforce a certain type of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) method for members.
Administrators of Organizations on Umbraco Cloud can enforce MFA for specific members of their organization.
To enforce a certain MFA for a member, follow these steps:
Go to the Organizations tab under your user on Umbraco Cloud.
Go to the Members tab under Organization.
Go to Multi-Factor Authentication.
Find the member that needs to have MFA enabled.
Click on the cogwheel and select the Enforced MFA Method from the drop-down list for the member.
Once it has been enabled, the next time the member logs in, they will be forced to setup the chosen Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) method. It is possible for an administrator to reset the authenticator app settings for members of the organization.
In the Projects section, you can get an overview of all the Projects that have been created in your Organization.
It is possible to see the plan, project status, payment status, creation date, region, and number of environments for each of your projects.
As an administrator, you can invite members of your organization to the different projects under the organization.
In the Access Rights section, you can get a list of all the Access Rights your Members have to each Project in your Organization.
In the Payment Methods section, you can view the payment methods for your organization. From here, you can add or delete credit card details for your Organization. These payment options will be used, when you create new projects under your organization.
In the Payment History section, you can see the payment history for your organization.
In the Subscriptions section, you can see the current active subscriptions that are running under the Umbraco Cloud organization.
