Sites Device Visibility

From the Samsara dashboard, you can view and manage your Site Gateways and Site Cameras.

• Site Gateway Visibility

• Site Gateway Video Storage and Retention Visibility (In Beta)

• Site Camera Visibility

Site Gateway Visibility

From the Devices > Site Gateways page, you can view all the Site Gateways in your organization.

To find specific gateways, you can use the Search to filter the results by a full or partial name, IP address, or model; or you can filter by Tag.

For each gateway, you can view the following information:

Field	Description
Status	Connection status of the Site Gateway: Online , Online • LTE, or Offline.
Name	Serial number of the Site Gateway or descriptive name, if provided.
IP	Dynamically issued or static IP address associated with the Site Gateway.
Model	Model of the Site Gateway.
Camera Status	Recording status of all cameras connected to the Site Gateway (number of cameras actively recording / total). Red dot: Indicates all the cameras associated with the gateway are offline Yellow dot: Indicates one or more cameras associated with the gateway are offline Green dot: Indicates all cameras associated with the gateway are online
more actions ( ... )	Edit Site Gateway settings including the device name, associated tags, IP address type, and descriptive notes.

Site Gateway Video Storage and Retention Visibility (In Beta)

Visibility into Site Gateway storage and retention key metrics help you to fulfill regulatory and company retention requirements while making informed decisions around camera configurations that may impact actual storage.

From Devices > Site Gateways, click on any gateway and view the Cameras tab.

For each gateway, you can view the video storage and retention metrics:

Field	Description
Projected Retention	(In Beta) Days of video projected to be saved.
Total Camera Bitrate	(In Beta) Average total data saved per second from all connected cameras.
Storage per Day	(In Beta) Average amount of data saved per day.
Storage Used	(In Beta) Total storage currently used on the gateway.

Note

Days of storage retention and storage per day are calculated based on a 7 day average of each camera’s bitrate, which is a measure of how much data is saved per second. Bitrate is directly related to video quality settings, such as resolution, frame rate, and compression settings like quality and max bitrate. You can adjust these settings for higher quality video and fewer days of retention, or lower quality video and more days of retention.

• For Samsara cameras, navigate to video settings for each camera to modify these settings.

• For third party cameras, consult the manufacturer’s manual for instructions on how to modify these settings directly on the camera’s configuration web interface.

After updating video quality settings, it can take up to 7 days for storage, retention projections, and metrics to calibrate as bitrate will vary from day to night and from weekday to weekend based on the amount of activity present in the video stream.

Site Camera Visibility

From the Devices > Site Cameras page, you can view all the Site IP Cameras in your organization.

To find specific cameras, you can use the Search to filter the results by a full or partial name, IP address, or associated gateway, or camera model.

For each camera, you can view the following information:

Field	Description
Status	Connection status of the camera, Online , Online • LTE, or Offline.
Name	IP address of the camera or descriptive name, if provided.
IP	Dynamically issued or static IP address associated with the camera.
Gateway	Site Gateway to which the camera is connected. This field is hidden if you view cameras for a specific Site Gateway.
Model	Model of the camera.
Avg Bitrate	(In Beta) Average rate of data saved per second per camera. This number contributes to the Total Camera Bitrate on the Site Gateway.
Oldest Footage	(In Beta) Date of how far back in the timeline you can go when investigating incidents per stream based on video stored locally on the Site Gateway. When the storage is full on the Site Gateway, the oldest footage is automatically overwritten.
recording status	Recording status of the camera. : Camera still with a green dot indicates the camera is online and recording. : Camera is offline. : The Site Gateway to which the camera connects is offline. Click the camera still to review camera footage.
more actions ( ... )	Delete a camera or Edit the camera settings including the device name, credentials, IP address, RTSP Stream URL, associated tags, and site assignment. You can also jump to camera feature settings.