# App.netdata.cloud - always focuse on **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** cloud\ **Created:** [October 16, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/app-netdata-cloud-always-focuse-on/54 "2020-10-16T08:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ezols](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ezols/32/628_2.png) [@Ezols](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Ezols)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/app-netdata-cloud-always-focuse-on/54/1 "2020-10-16T08:46:28Z")
Hi, Is “On Focus” mode available somewhere in app.netdata.cloud? ! ![1602836842080-8e7c264a-28a6-45f2-85f5-08d4a75e9881-image.png](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/1X/1a1331d08581179536251e30ef7fb4f9caf2e2f2.png) Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![OdysLam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/odyslam/32/98_2.png) [@OdysLam](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/OdysLam)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/app-netdata-cloud-always-focuse-on/54/2 "2020-10-27T19:07:12Z")
Thanks Jacek for jumping in the thread! @ezois, keep us posted if it works and do stick around. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ezols](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ezols/32/628_2.png) [@Ezols](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Ezols)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/app-netdata-cloud-always-focuse-on/54/3 "2020-10-27T17:39:49Z")
Thanks, this workaround will do fine. ---
**Author:** ![Jacek\_Kolasa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/jacek_kolasa/32/190_2.png) [@Jacek\_Kolasa](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Jacek_Kolasa)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/app-netdata-cloud-always-focuse-on/54/4 "2020-10-27T16:14:13Z")
@Ezols thanks for asking, i forgot to put an update here. So, it turned out that right now users will have more benefit if we still don’t update charts when focus is lost (actually this is what “on focus” mode is, contrary to “always”), so we cannot make “always” mode the default yet… We will try to bring the options modal to the cloud, but there are other more-requested features, unfortunately. As a workaround, of course not ideal, you can change this setting in browser console, by doing `localStorage["options.stop_updates_when_focus_is_lost"] = false`, this way charts will still be updating when you switch to other tab/window. ---
**Author:** ![Ezols](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ezols/32/628_2.png) [@Ezols](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Ezols)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/app-netdata-cloud-always-focuse-on/54/5 "2020-10-27T08:14:25Z")
Hi Jacek, “On Focus” was working for some time, but now the charts again are not refreshing if i haven’t focused on netdata tab. Any hope for “on focus” to be on by default? ---
**Author:** ![Ezols](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ezols/32/628_2.png) [@Ezols](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Ezols)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/app-netdata-cloud-always-focuse-on/54/6 "2020-10-16T12:04:20Z")
Hi Jacek, “On Focus” by default would be great for me. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Jacek\_Kolasa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/jacek_kolasa/32/190_2.png) [@Jacek\_Kolasa](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Jacek_Kolasa)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/app-netdata-cloud-always-focuse-on/54/7 "2020-10-16T11:28:21Z")
Hi Ezols, no, unfortunately it isn’t, we didn’t had time to design the modal with options. But we actually thought we should set it “On Focus” as default. Would it be ok for you? ---
**Author:** ![BigPines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9a140/32.png) [@BigPines](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/BigPines)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/app-netdata-cloud-always-focuse-on/54/8 "2022-12-07T00:28:56Z")
Sorry to resurrect an old topic but… First, thanks for the hack above. Unfortunately I couldn’t get it to work. I sure would like this setting in Netdata cloud too. I was forced to move to cloud to get a feature I needed. I have a lot of windows open and I like to leave the browser behind other things I am working on and watch the graph change. Setting localStorage[“options.stop\_updates\_when\_focus\_is\_lost”] = false didn’t seem to have any effect at all on the refresh. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/2X/2/2438123470533689fa4d104abc59d67ddeed592b.png) ---
**Author:** ![Jacek\_Kolasa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/jacek_kolasa/32/190_2.png) [@Jacek\_Kolasa](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Jacek_Kolasa)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/app-netdata-cloud-always-focuse-on/54/9 "2022-12-07T13:16:20Z")
Hi @BigPines , since that time we did big refactor and that hack isn’t working. But there’s good news, we implemented the feature which does exactly that - forces charts to update when browser is not in focus. Please check the dropdown next to “Play / Pause” button, so you can choose “Force Play”. Will this work for you? ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/2X/6/677f49d07c1e7d7576cd027c9498a9c6e264d0b1.png) ---
**Author:** ![BigPines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9a140/32.png) [@BigPines](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/BigPines)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/app-netdata-cloud-always-focuse-on/54/10 "2022-12-07T16:17:46Z")
That works! Brilliant! Thank you so much! Mike