Cloud Status and Platform Health

The Cloud Status view (xcsh.cloudStatus) provides live platform health monitoring inside Visual Studio Code. The view queries the official F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) status service to track platform components, active incidents, scheduled maintenance, and regional Points of Presence (PoPs).

Status Tree View

The Cloud Status panel displays the real-time operational status of the global F5 Distributed Cloud fleet:

• Overall Platform Status: An aggregate status indicator (Operational, Degraded Performance, Partial Outage, or Major Outage).
• Core Platform Components: Detailed health metrics for critical subsystems including the Control Plane API, Console UI, Global Data Plane, DNS Services, and Identity & Access Management.
• Active Incidents: Unresolved service disruptions, including severity levels, affected regions, and chronological engineering status updates.
• Scheduled Maintenance: Planned maintenance windows detailing target regions, expected service impacts, and execution timelines.
• Points of Presence (PoPs): Regional health across global F5 Distributed Cloud Edge and Regional Edge facilities.

Cloud Status Dashboard Webview

For an aggregated overview, open the interactive Cloud Status Dashboard:

1. In the Cloud Status view title bar, select the Open Dashboard icon, or run xcsh.cloudStatus.openDashboard.
2. The extension opens a dedicated webview panel rendering platform health cards, regional latency indicators, active incident summaries, and upcoming maintenance schedules.

Item Inspection Commands

Right-clicking individual items in the Cloud Status tree opens detailed diagnostics:

• View Component (xcsh.cloudStatus.viewComponent): Inspect component description, historical uptime percentage, and related incident history.
• View Point of Presence (xcsh.cloudStatus.viewPoP): Inspect regional Edge location metadata, transit peering status, and operational health.
• View Incident (xcsh.cloudStatus.viewIncident): Read full incident timelines, root cause descriptions, and mitigation notes.
• View Maintenance (xcsh.cloudStatus.viewMaintenance): Review scheduled maintenance impact windows and affected services.
• Open External Status Page (xcsh.cloudStatus.openExternal): Launch the official F5 Distributed Cloud status site in your external browser.

Background Refresh Configuration

You can configure automatic background polling to keep status indicators current:

• Open your Visual Studio Code settings (Ctrl+, / Cmd+,).
• Search for xcsh.autoRefreshInterval.
• Set the interval in seconds (for example, 300 for 5-minute polling). Setting the value to 0 disables background polling.
• You can manually refresh status at any time by selecting the Refresh icon or pressing Ctrl+Shift+R (macOS: Cmd+Shift+R).