Desktop settings reporting
- Prerequisites
- Access the reporting dashboard
- User compliance statuses
- Compliance status
- Domain status
- Settings status
- Monitor compliance
- Resolve compliance issues
- Non-compliant or outdated users
- Uncontrolled domain users
- No policy assigned users
- Policy update timing
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Desktop settings reporting tracks user compliance with Docker Desktop settings policies. Use this feature to monitor policy application across your organization and identify users who need assistance with compliance.
Prerequisites
Before you can use Docker Desktop settings reporting, make sure you have:
- Docker Desktop installed across your organization
- A verified domain
- Enforced sign-in for your organization
- A Docker Business subscription
- At least one settings policy configured
Access the reporting dashboard
To view compliance reporting:
- Sign in to Docker Home and select your organization.
- Select Docker Desktop, then Settings Reporting.
The reporting dashboard provides these tools:
- A search field to find users by username or email address
- Filter options to show users assigned to specific policies
- Toggles to hide or un-hide compliant users
- Compliance status indicators
- CSV export option to download compliance data
User compliance statuses
Docker Desktop evaluates three types of status to determine overall compliance:
Compliance status
This is the primary status shown in the dashboard:
| Compliance status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Compliant | The user fetched and applied the latest assigned policy. |
| Non-compliant | The user fetched the correct policy, but hasn't applied it. |
| Outdated | The user fetched a previous version of the policy. |
| No policy assigned | The user does not have any policy assigned to them. |
| Uncontrolled domain | The user's email domain is not verified. |
Domain status
Shows how the user's email domain relates to your organization:
| Domain status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Verified | The user’s email domain is verified. |
| Guest user | The user's email domain is not verified. |
| Domainless | Your organization has no verified domains, and the user's domain is unknown. |
Settings status
Indicates the user's policy assignment:
| Settings status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Global policy | The user is assigned your organization's default policy. |
| User policy | The user is assigned a specific custom policy. |
| No policy assigned | The user is not assigned to any policy. |
Monitor compliance
From the Desktop settings reporting dashboard, you can:
- Review organization-wide compliance at a glance
- Turn on Hide compliant users to focus on issues
- Filter by specific policies to check targeted compliance
- Export compliance data
- Select any user's name for detailed status and resolution steps
When you select a user's name, you'll see their detailed compliance information including current status, domain verification, assigned policy, last policy fetch time, and Docker Desktop version.
Resolve compliance issues
You can select a non-compliant user's name in the dashboard for recommended status resolution steps. The following sections are general resolution steps for non-compliant statuses:
Non-compliant or outdated users
- Ask the user to fully quit and relaunch Docker Desktop
- Verify the user is signed in to Docker Desktop
- Confirm the user has Docker Desktop 4.40 or later
Uncontrolled domain users
- Verify the user's email domain in your organization settings
- If the domain should be controlled, add and verify it, then wait for verification
- If the user is a guest and shouldn't be controlled, no action is needed
No policy assigned users
- Assign the user to an existing policy
- Create a new user-specific policy for them
- Verify they're included in your organization's default policy scope
After users take corrective action, refresh the reporting dashboard to verify status changes.
Policy update timing
Docker Desktop checks for policy updates:
- At startup
- Every 60 minutes while Docker Desktop is running
- When users restart Docker Desktop
Changes to policies in Docker Home are available immediately, but users must restart Docker Desktop to apply them.