Use mission control to improve your Confluence spaces
5 min
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to:
- Apply insights from mission control to improve your space content and engagement
Is there a centralized dashboard for space oversight?
Confluence mission control is a dedicated workspace for admins. It provides a centralized hub for efficiently monitoring and managing your spaces by offering key metrics, activity trends, and content management tools all in one place. It is available with Confluence Premium and Enterprise.
To open your space’s Mission control:
- Navigate to the desired space.
- Select the ... next to the space name and and then select Space settings from the space pop-out.
- Select Mission control.
The mission control dashboard is your command center for monitoring the health and activity of your Confluence space. It features key sections like Activity, Content Management, and Security, which provide insights into page views, user engagement, stale content, and inactive pages.
Mission control provides actionable links to Confluence analytics, allowing for a deeper dive and troubleshooting directly from its interface.
👇Mission control is a central hub for admins to monitor their space.
At the top, the dashboard is divided into three charts.
👇Click the boxes below to find out more about each chart.
As you scroll down there are three additional sections:
- Activity
- Content Management
- Security
Use mission control to get an overview of your space’s activity.
The Activity section in mission control provides admins with an overview of recent activities within their spaces, including views, creations, and updates. This section helps admins monitor and manage space-level content in order to maintain it efficiently.
After setting the time window at the top of this section, it offers metrics such as:
- Content views: the number of views for pages, blogs, and whiteboards in the chosen date range.
- Most viewed pages: displays a list of the pages with the highest number of views in the chosen date range.
- Content created: the number of pages, blogs, and whiteboards newly created in the chosen date range.
- Content updated: the number of pages, blogs, and whiteboards updated in the chosen date range.
- Total content: the number of total pages, blogs, and whiteboards in a space in the chosen date range.
Manage your content with mission control.
The Content management section in mission control provides admins with tools to oversee and maintain the health and relevance of their content, including identifying stale pages and managing content ownership.
👇Click the boxes below to see the metrics measured in this section.
Secure your space with mission control.
The Security section in mission control provides admins with reports to help them manage public-facing content. The reports help quickly identify and address potential security risks, maintaining a secure and compliant Confluence environment.
The reports found here are:
- Active public links: the number of currently active public links.
- Public link views: shows the number of views for public links in the space.
All metrics and charts in mission control are actionable and allow admins to click into Confluence Analytics for a closer look.
Best practices
Here are some best practices for using Confluence mission control.
- Regularly Review Activity Metrics: Use the Activity reports to monitor recent views, creations, and updates within your spaces. This helps you stay informed about how content is being used and identify any areas that may need attention.
- Manage Stale Content: Leverage the Content Management reports to identify and address inactive pages, ensuring that your space remains relevant and up-to-date. Review pages that haven't had activity in the last six months regularly and take action as needed.
- Ensure Content Ownership: Check for pages without active owners and reassign ownership to maintain accountability and ensure that all content has a responsible party for updates and maintenance.
- Monitor Security Settings: Use the Security reports to track public links and their views. Review these links quickly to identify and mitigate potential security risks, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected.
- Set a Regular Review Schedule: Establish a routine for checking mission control, such as weekly or monthly reviews, to ensure continuous oversight and timely updates to your Confluence spaces.
- Engage with Space Admins: Collaborate with other space admins to share insights and coordinate efforts in managing and improving your Confluence spaces.
By following these best practices, you can effectively utilize Confluence mission control to maintain a well-organized, secure, and engaging Confluence environment.