Preferences
Customize your Devpilot experience — theme, timezone, layout, privacy, and tutorial preferences.
Preferences
Preferences let you tailor Devpilot to your own workflow. These settings are stored on your account and follow you to every device and browser you sign in from. This page covers every preference you can change.
Accessing Preferences
- Click your avatar in the top-right corner of the dashboard.
- Select Account Settings.
- Click Preferences in the settings sidebar.
Changes save immediately — there's no global "Save" button to press.
Theme
Devpilot supports three theme options that affect the whole dashboard.
Bright background with dark text. Best for well-lit environments and users who prefer a traditional light UI.
Dark background with light text. Easier on the eyes in dim lighting and kinder to OLED battery life.
Matches whatever theme your operating system is using. If your OS flips between light and dark on a schedule, Devpilot follows.
To change your theme, click Light, Dark, or System in the Theme section. The dashboard re-renders immediately.
Your theme choice is stored on your account, so you'll see the same theme on every device you sign in from — except with System, which picks up each device's OS setting individually.
Timezone
Every timestamp in Devpilot — deployment history, login history, activity logs, scheduled jobs, invoice dates — is shown in your configured timezone. New accounts default to UTC.
Open the Timezone Setting
In the Timezone section, click the current timezone to open the selector.
Search for Your Timezone
Start typing a city or region (for example, Lagos, New York, or UTC+1). The list filters as you type.
Select and Save
Click the timezone that matches your location. All timestamps update immediately to reflect your new timezone.
When coordinating scheduled deployments or incident timelines with teammates in different regions, remember each person sees times in their own timezone. Spell out the timezone explicitly when it matters.
Layout Options
The layout section controls how lists and dashboards are presented inside Devpilot.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Default view | Choose whether resource lists (servers, applications, projects) open in Grid or List view by default. |
| Compact mode | Reduces padding and row heights to fit more information on screen. |
| Animations | Turn page transitions and micro-animations on or off. Useful on slower devices. |
| Auto-refresh | When enabled, live dashboards (such as deployment status or server metrics) poll for updates automatically. Turn off to reduce network activity. |
Each option is a toggle or dropdown — changes apply immediately.
Privacy Options
Privacy preferences control how your activity is tracked inside your account profile. Available toggles:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Activity visibility | When on, your actions can appear in activity feeds visible to other workspace members. When off, your activity is kept out of those feeds where possible. |
| Analytics sharing | When on, anonymised usage data is included in Devpilot's product analytics to help improve the platform. When off, your usage is excluded. |
These controls shape how Devpilot records your actions. Workspace administrators may still see audit entries that are required for security and compliance.
Notification Preferences
Under Notifications, Devpilot stores a couple of personal toggles used by integrations:
- Weekly digest — opt in or out of a weekly summary email of your account activity (if your workspace has digest emails enabled).
- Slack integration — enable or disable personal Slack-based notifications (if your workspace has a Slack app connected).
Toggle each option on or off and the change is saved immediately.
Per-event email toggles (for deployments, scripts, servers, etc.) are not configured on your personal account — those alerts flow through workspace notification channels set up by a workspace admin. See the Workspace documentation for how channel scopes, recipients, and delivery methods are configured.
Tutorial Preferences
Devpilot shows in-app tutorials and a welcome walkthrough the first time you visit certain pages. You can control these from the preferences page or directly inside any tutorial popover.
- Tutorials enabled — turn all in-app tutorials on or off. When off, no walkthroughs appear.
- Welcome seen — automatically flipped to on once you've completed the welcome modal. Resetting this (if shown) replays the welcome flow.
- Per-tutorial completion — individual tutorials remember whether you've finished them so they don't appear again.
Default Settings
When your Devpilot account is created, these defaults apply until you change them:
| Setting | Default Value |
|---|---|
| Theme | System |
| Timezone | UTC |
| Default view | Grid |
| Compact mode | Off |
| Animations | On |
| Auto-refresh | On |
| Tutorials enabled | On |
Adjust any of these at any time from the preferences page.
Preferences Across Multiple Devices
Your preferences are stored on your Devpilot account, not in your browser's local storage. When you sign in from a different computer, phone, or browser, your theme, timezone, and layout settings come with you. The one exception is the System theme option — because it inherits from the operating system, the actual theme may differ between devices if they're set up differently.
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