Help center
Header
Top left: Status display
Shows different status messages:
- Status: Current status of the Pi-hole - Active (), Offline (), or Starting ()
- Temp: Current CPU temperature
- Load: load averages for the last minute, 5 minutes and 15 minutes, respectively. A load average of 1 reflects the full workload of a single processor on the system. We show a red icon if the current load exceeds the number of available processors on this machine (which is 4)
- Memory usage: Shows the percentage of memory actually blocked by applications. We show a red icon if the memory usage exceeds 75%
Top right: About
- GitHub: Link to the Pi-hole repository
- Details: Link to Jacob Salmela's blog with some more details, describing also the concept of the Pi-hole
- Updates: Link to list of releases
- Update notifications: If updates are available, a link will be shown here.
Dashboard
On the dashboard, you can see various Pi-hole statistics:
- Summary: A summary of statistics showing how many total DNS queries have been blocked today, what percentage of DNS queries have been blocked, and how many domains are in the compiled ad list. This summary is updated every 10 seconds.
- Queries over time: Graph showing DNS queries (total and blocked) over 10 minute time intervals. More information can be acquired by hovering over the lines. This graph is updated every 10 minutes.
- Query Types: Identifies the types of processed queries
- Forward Destinations: Shows to which upstream DNS the permitted requests have been forwarded to.
- Top Domains: Ranking of requested sites by number of DNS lookups.
- Top Advertisers: Ranking of requested advertisements by number of DNS lookups.
- Top Clients: Ranking of how many DNS requests each client has made on the local network.
The Top Domains and Top Advertisers lists may be hidden depending on the privacy Settings on the settings page
Query Log
Shows the recent queries by parsing Pi-hole's log. It is possible to search through the whole list by using the "Search" input field. If the status is reported as "OK", then the DNS request has been permitted. Otherwise ("Pi-holed") it has been blocked. By clicking on the buttons under "Action" the corresponding domains can quickly be added to the white-/blacklist. The status of the action will be reported on this page. By default, only the recent 10 minutes are shown to enhance the loading speed of the query log page. All domains can be requested by clicking on the corresponding link in the header of the page. Note that the result heavily depends on your privacy settings (see Settings page).
White- / Blacklist
Add or remove domains (or subdomains) from the white-/blacklist. If a domain is added to e.g. the whitelist, any possible entry of the same domain will be automatically removed from the blacklist and vice versa.
Wildcard blacklisting is supported (entering something.de will block this domain including all subdomains like a.bb.c.999.something.de). Note that wildcard whitelisting is not supported.
You can white-/blacklist multiple entries at a time if you separate the domains by spaces.
Disable / Enable
Disables/enables Pi-hole blocking completely. You may have to wait a few minutes for the changes to reach all of your devices. The change will be reflected by a changed status (top left)Tools → Update Lists
Will download any updates from the third-party ad-serving domain lists that we source. By default, this command runs once a week via cron (Sunday at 01:59).
Tools → Query adlists
This function is useful to find out what list a domain appears on. Since we don't control what the third-parties put on the block lists, you may find that a domain you normally visit stops working. If this is the case, you could run this command to scan for strings in the list of blocked domains and it will return the list the domain is found on. This proved useful a while back when the Mahakala list was adding apple.com and microsoft.com to their block list.Tools → Tail pihole.log
Live tailing of the raw Pi-hole log.Settings
Change settings for the Pi-holeNetworking
Displays information about the interfaces of the Pi-hole. No changes possible.Pi-hole DHCP Server
Using this setting you can enable/disable the DHCP server of the Pi-hole. Note that you should disable any other DHCP server on your network to avoid IP addresses being used more than once. You have to give the range of IPs that DHCP will serve and the IP of the local router (gateway). If the DHCP server is active, the current leases are shown on the settings page. IPv4 DHCP will always be activated, IPv6 (stateless + statefull) can be enabled.Upstream DNS Servers
Customize used upstream DNS servers + advanced settings for DNS servers. Note that any number of DNS servers may be enabled at a time.Query Logging
Enabled/disable query logging on your Pi-hole + provide option to flush the logAPI
Change settings which apply to the API as well as the web UI- Show permitted domain entries: Toogle permitted queries in Query Log + Top Domains on Main Page
- Show blockes domain entries: Toogle blocked queries in Query Log + Top Ads on Main Page
- Privacy mode: Replace IPs in query log with "hidden"
Web User Interface
Other settings which affect the webUI but not the API of Pi-holeSystem Administration
Apply system-wide actions like restarting of the serverAuthentication system (currently disabled)
Using the command
sudo pihole -a -pand entering a password to be set, one can enable the authentication system of this web interface. Thereafter, a login is required for most pages (the dashboard will show a limited amount of statistics). Note that the authentication system may be disabled again, by setting an empty password using the command shown above. The Help center will show more details concerning the authentication system only if it is enabled