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This How-to guide will explain the different dashboards PubNub offers, what metrics they contain, when you would use them, and where you can find them.

Virtual events need chat to keep users engaged, but it's often a challenge to build a chat solution that works at scale and can handle the network load surges that occur during popular events. As a developer, you need to select a robust backend API provider capable of transmitting and receiving the high volume of messages that your viewers and participants generate.

Follow this how-to to enable Persistence in the Admin Portal to persist all messages as they're published.

Follow this how-to on creating keys in the Admin Portal to connect your application to the PubNub network.

Follow this how-to on enabling Files in the Admin Portal to upload and share files.

Follow this how-to on enabling Objects in the Admin Portal to to store metadata for users, channels, and memberships without the need of setting up your own database.

Read our complete guide on how to filter Events using the Advanced JSONPath Filter in Events & Actions. In this guide, you’ll learn the different filter options available to you in E&A, what is JSONPath, and how to format complex JSONPath Filter Expressions to filter for the Events you need.

PubNub’s Events & Actions provides real-time event routing and processing for filtering events. Learn how to create event listeners and actions with Basic Filters, including WebHook calls, SQS, and Kinesis integrations.