Dashboard
The health check you see when you open SEO Utils
The Dashboard is the first screen you see when you open SEO Utils. It answers four questions at a glance: which version you're running, how much API credit you have left, whether your local database needs maintenance, and whether any of your paid DataForSEO tasks need attention.
The Onboarding button in the top-right corner reopens the setup walkthrough at any time, which is useful when you're connecting a new service.
Version
Shows the version you're running and its release date.
Click What's new to read what changed in this version without leaving the app.
DataForSEO Balance
Your remaining credit on your own DataForSEO account. This card appears once you've connected your DataForSEO credentials.
Top Up Balance opens your DataForSEO account page in your browser so you can add credit.
Reports stop when your balance runs out. If you schedule daily rank tracking, check this card regularly — an empty balance means tasks are never created, and a missed day cannot be recovered later.
Renting API Balance
Your remaining credit if you use a rented API key instead of your own DataForSEO account. Top Up Balance opens the purchase page.
🔑Rent DataForSEO API KeyDatabase Fragmentation
As you add and delete data over months of reports, your local database accumulates unused space. This card shows how much.
Normal
Under 20% — nothing to do.
High
Over 20% — a Maintain button appears so you can compact the database and reclaim the space.
Compacting is optional housekeeping. A fragmented database makes reports slower but doesn't put your data at risk.
DataForSEO Needs Attention
This card appears only when something needs looking at. A Dashboard without it means your paid tasks are healthy.
It shows two badges when they apply:
N tasks — tasks that failed, were rejected, or have not moved for more than 15 minutes
N collectors offline — background workers that have stopped checking DataForSEO for results
Click the card to open the DataForSEO Task Monitor, where you can see collector health and which tasks are recovering on their own.
📡DataForSEO Task MonitorDon't re-run a report to force a slow task. You pay for the same keywords twice, and the original task is usually still recoverable. Open the Task Monitor first — if the task appears under Automatic recovery, the app still has its DataForSEO task ID and is still collecting the result you already paid for.
Disk Full alert
If your disk runs out of space, a Disk Full alert appears above the cards and task collection pauses until you free some up.
Nothing is lost while collection is paused. Your results stay at DataForSEO and are collected once there is room to save them safely.
Repair actions removed from earlier versions
Older versions showed Organic SERP and Google Maps queue cards on the Dashboard, along with manual repair actions under Settings → Services:
Free Organic SERP Tasks
Free Stuck GMB Rank Trackers
Delete DataForSEO Post Tasks
All of these have been removed. Stuck queues now clear on their own through automatic recovery, and the DataForSEO Task Monitor shows you whether that is happening.
The last action was also unsafe: deleting a task record threw away the DataForSEO task ID and the downloaded result file, which are exactly what the app needs to recover a paid result. Deleting the record never cancelled anything at DataForSEO — it only destroyed your own copy of how to collect it.
If you're following older instructions that mention any of these actions, use the Task Monitor instead.
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