Create dashboards and charts

Visualize your app's data through Dashboards and charts to gain an overview of the metrics you are evaluating.

Prerequisites

To create a chart, you need a Business Object and a metric.

Creating Dashboards for customers

If you are a PubNub partner who has embedded Illuminate into your own website as part of your offering, you can create Dashboards for your own use or for your customers (end customers) in the Illuminate section in the Admin Portal. Read Illuminate for PubNub Partners for additional information.

Use case

For our use case, we will create a Dashboard with two charts based on the previously created (and activated) Game engagement experiment Business Object and its metrics.

Here’s the summary of all the items we will define:

Item	Values	Description
Dashboard	Name: Game engagement experiment	Container for both charts
Chart 1	Automatically named after the Message sum metric	Lets us visualize the number of sent messages and triggered actions (sent discount codes) whenever a guild reaches or exceeds the 100-message sum threshold.
Chart 2	Automatically named after the Total purchased value metric	Lets us verify if the discounts we sent to guild members impacted the total value of purchased items and, thus, increased monetization.

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Steps

Start by creating a Dashboard, as you need a "bucket" for your chart. Then, create charts to visualize your metrics.

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Step-by-step guide

1. On the Dashboards home page, click the Create Dashboard button and choose the name for your Dashboard (Game engagement experiment).

2. Either Save the Dashboard at this point and Edit the newly created dashboard to add a chart, or first add a chart and Save it at the end.

3. From the Dashboard view, click Add Chart, and the chart configuration modal pops up.

4. Click Select Business Object and choose the Game engagement experiment Business Object we created earlier.

5. Choose the Message sum metric and the whole metric configuration will be populated in the chart.

   

6. If desired, add a Decision to visualize with the chart by clicking Manage.

7. Select Add at the bottom of the modal to save the configured chart.

   The name of the chart will be automatically generated after the metric name.

8. Create another chart for the Total purchased value metric and Add it to the Dashboard.

   

9. Save the Dashboard if you haven’t saved it before adding the charts. If you’d like to add more charts, click Edit and add charts.

You can now observe the data as it comes in and see whenever actions are triggered when the number of messages reaches the previously defined threshold of 100 and how that impacts the total value of purchased items.

Illuminate for PubNub partners

If you’re set up as a PubNub partner, you’ll see a drop-down menu that allows you to select who you’re creating or working on Illuminate for.

• Select your own company name at the top of the drop-down if you’re creating Dashboards for yourself.
• All customers to see which customers have been set up with Illuminate.
• A customer name to see only their Dashboards and start creating or editing only for this one customer.
• All internal and customers for your own Dashboards and those of the customers.

Depending on what you’ve selected from the partner drop-down menu, you’ll see a Customer column that provides information on who a Dashboard belongs to – a customer or your own organization.

• If you don’t see a customer in the drop-down menu, go to the Partner Portal section of the PubNub Admin Portal and make sure you’ve created the customer in PubNub and assigned a keyset to them.
• If, after selecting the customer, you don’t see apps or subscribe keys for selection, assign (a) keyset(s) for this customer in the Partner Portal.