The Embedded Dashboard

The SFDT: Open Dashboard command (also the Open Dashboard button in the Org Health view, and clicking the status-bar item) launches the full sfdt ui web dashboard inside an editor tab — no separate browser window.

How it works

The extension spawns a sfdt ui child process.
It polls the server’s /api/health endpoint (up to ~15 seconds) until the server is ready.
It opens a VS Code WebviewPanel and loads the dashboard in an iframe pointed at the local server.

The panel retains its state when hidden, so the dashboard keeps running until you close the tab.

Port

The dashboard server port is controlled by sfdt.dashboardPort (default 7654). Change it if 7654 is already in use on your machine.

This is the same dashboard the CLI serves with sfdt ui and that the Chrome extension’s bridge talks to. See CLI → Web Dashboard for a full tour of its pages.

Because the dashboard runs a local server, the embedded webview is bound to 127.0.0.1. If the panel never reveals, the server probably failed to start — check the SFDT output channel and confirm the port is free.