Using cockpit to monitor remote hosts

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I’ve been using cockpit to monitor two raspberry pis on my home network. Recently I’ve noticed that the ‘hosts’ dropdown in the top left hand cornet of the cockpit website no longer works - I can only monitor the local server via cockpit.
I can still log in to cockpit on the raspberry pis by going to http://raspberrypi.ip:9090
I have the details of the raspberry pis correctly configured in the /etc/cockpit/machines.d/99-webui.json file

I’m a bit stumped as to why the ability to connect to a remote host seems to have been removed from my cockpit installation.

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Same here. On a fresh install of Fedora 41 Cockpit vers 331 doesn’t show arrow in upper left corner and no drop-down list with remote machines.

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sudo tee -a /etc/cockpit/cockpit.conf << EOF > /dev/null
[WebService]
AllowMultiHost=yes
EOF
sudo systemctl restart cockpit.socket

See also: Cockpit 322 — Cockpit Project

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Thanks. Shame that the official documentation doesnt mention that Multiple Machines

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