As worthy for praise is the web interface of AdGuard Home, certainly compared to pi hole, once you get used to the slightly different configuration of this tool, you will find it even easier to use, especially for monitoring and whitelisting domains in real time, so for in initial configuration. Incidentally, for initial configuration, even the excellent user interface of the adguard home web interface, is not ideal for everything, especially making it very tedious to add block lists one at a time.
From monitoring, This is great especially if you have multiple instances of AdGuard Home, it's fast, saves a lot of headache simply by not having to enter a domain to a web browser but much more than that. Query log actually provides valuable information that you will not be able to get from your AdGuard Home Web. For example, all processed queries, from cache or upstream server, appear identical on AdGuard home web ui, and you can only guess, that a 1ms querywas served from cache, while a 30ms was servered from upstream DNS server.
One missing future, is the absence on the dashboard of upstream server performance, which the distinction between cache and new resoltion, could greatly benefit, as the web interface of AdGuard Home, provides averages that include cached, for example if domain example.com was resolved by cloud DNS, and then served from cache multiple times, while domain example2.com was resolved by cloud9, But only accessed once, it would skew the data to appear as if cloud9 performs a lot better especially if your stats are set to 24 hours, indefinitely above. The app could use the information of cached resolutions to present real performance of upstream DNS servers, however since it does not present that data at all it's a missed opportunity. It would also be nice to be able to customize the dashboard two less than 24 hours, which is possible in the web ui.
Overall however, for the monitoring, Identifying and fixing Paul false positives, A very clear view of not only dashboard and query log but also custom filtering rules, where Comments are great out, allows our automatically highlighted in green and blocks in red, it makes this much more clear.
Some of the features are not under the same categories or menus as in the web user interface but that is a good thing once you get used to it. For example, to check a domain is blocked, in AdGuard Web interface, This is arbitrarily part of custom filtering rules, On the app it's a separate category and filtering where it really belongs. the developer has invested in aggregating a lot of data over limited screen real estate, And with no more than two clicks, Everything is accessible and very clear.
Definitely recommend spending a few dollars for the pro version, it's worth it, And I'm sure it would make this important to even better. One thing to note- if your AdGuard Home is installed in Home Assistant, this will not be able to access it, something that can easily be fixed but it's not currently supported. On the other hand the fact that I chose to move it out of Home Assistant into a separate raspberry pi, with all the hassle, Just goes to show you that this is really valuable tool.
Support is OK- a couple of responses until it was clear that ladder feature was not supported and then ghosted. The developer can do better on the front
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