Admin Portal Technical Documentation

Admin Portal allows you to set up, configure, and inspect your apps and features offered by PubNub using a graphical user interface.

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Public Admin Portal demo

Want to browse through the Admin Portal without creating an account? Explore it through the Public Demo that shows examples of most PubNub features for transport and logistics use case.

Before you can log in, you need to create your PubNub account.

How to log in

PubNub offers these login options:

• Login & password provided during the account setup
• Google SSO
• Single Sign-On (SSO)

Homepage

After logging in, you are presented with the Admin Portal homepage. It gives you an overview of:

• Quicklinks to PubNub features
• Your keysets and apps to which they're connected
• Usage data for your apps from the last 24 hours
• Sneak peek into the Insights dashboards with your keyset metrics
• Functions catalog with third-party integrations

You can switch between different sections using the left-hand side navigation.

Tab name	Description
Apps	Create new apps and view existing ones.
Keysets	You are automatically redirected to this section after choosing an app and a keyset associated with this app. This section lets you configure the features offered by PubNub, like Message Persistence, Presence, or Access Manager. Limit of 3 keysets for Free tier accounts Effective February 3, 2025, all Free tier accounts will be limited to a maximum of three keysets. If your account exceeds this limit, you must delete existing keysets to create new ones.
Functions	Create new functions or manage the already existing ones.
Events & Actions	Create new or manage the existing Event Listeners and Actions.
Usage & Monitoring	View metrics for your account in a given time range.
Debug console	Debug your application with clients created directly in the browser.
Insights	Refine your strategy with ready-to-use metrics and analytics from PubNub data.
Usage & Monitoring	Check both billable and monitoring metrics.
BizOps Workspace	Manage users or channels, and moderate chat conversations.
Illuminate	Define custom real-time metrics, set up and deploy decision rules with conditions and actions, and visualize the aggregated data.

Account options

Click your avatar in the top-right corner of the screen to access your account options. For more information on account options, refer to the My Account documentation.