Adding a dashboard for spaces in Confluence

[Rebekka Kristín]

We have Standard Cloud plan for both Jira and Confluence. 

I´m looking to create a dashboard for the usage of our Confluence spaces.  What analytics of Confluence usage are available to Standard subscribers? 

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

The Better Content Archiving app provides several dashboards for Standard and even for Free sites!

At least the following three dashboards are focusing different aspects of "usage" (which is a rather broad term).

1) Content Analytics (in a space or on the whole site!)

With this you can:

• get insights about the performance of your pages and blog posts.
• view the number of the pages and blog posts on the site or in the space.
• view the number of the pages and blog posts actively viewed and updated.
• view the top list of the most viewed and most updated pages and blog posts.

2) User Analytics (power-users in the space or on the site)

With this you can:

• get insights about your users and their activities.
• view the number of users on the site.
• view the number of the users viewing, updating and creating contents on the site or in the space.
• view the top list of the most active "power-users".

3) User Engagement (activities in the space or on the site)

With this you can:

You can use it in many ways:

• get insights about your users and their level of engagement.
• view the number of the content views, updates, creations and status changes on the site or in the space.
• view the trends of the content views, updates, creations and status changes on the site or in the space.

Try this free on your Confluence site!

(Discl. this is a paid and supported app developed by our team. Free for 10 users!)

[Levente Szabo _Midori_]

@Rebekka Kristín On top of what Aron is explaining, I also summarized how organizations can analyze Confluence space usage in this blog. I think it covers your use case. Give it and the documentation a read and reach out to us if you need any help implementing Better Content Archiving and Analytics for your team!

[Rebekka Kristín]

Thanks!

[Hans Polder]

@Rebekka Kristín ,

Welcome to the community!

There isn't really a way to create custom dashboards in Confluence for this.

For Premium/Enterprise users, there is 'Mission Control', but this won't be available to you.

In my test environment (which is a Free environment), I do see the 'Space reports' option which allows you to download a CSV of all your spaces and their last activities. It's a bit 'barbaric', but it should allow you to - after some Excel magic - do some analysis on them.

There will likely also be paid plugins to achieve insight like this, but I haven't used those so won't be able to help you with that :)

[Rebekka Kristín]

Thanks - I found this when searching for some reporting options but agree with you, "barbaric" is indeed descriptive.  

I´m quite surprised that this isn´t built in for standard subscribers as I would imagine it is a useful and commonly requested feature. 

Thanks for taking the time to reply! 

Rebekka

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

Hi @Rebekka Kristín and welcome to Community!

Most analytics are only available for Premium or Enterprise customers, but here are some metrics you can look at on a Standard plan:

• Page analytics - go to each page you want to monitor, click on "x people viewed" > View more insights, and you'll get a graph of number of views:

• Space reports - you can generate reports about each space: when they were last active, how much storage they’re using.

Hope this helps!

- Manon

[Rebekka Kristín]

Thanks Manon ! 

We have a lot of spaces so this is extremely manual labor to check each space individually - but better than nothing I guess! 

Thanks for taking the time to reply to me. 

Rebekka