Create dashboards and charts

Visualize your app's data through Dashboards and charts to see key metrics at a glance.

Prerequisites

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

Creating Dashboards for customers

If you are a PubNub partner with Illuminate embedded in your website, you can create Dashboards for yourself or your end customers in the Illuminate section of the Admin Portal. Read Illuminate for PubNub Partners for details.

Use case

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

Summary of items we 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.

Check configuration details

Steps

First, create a Dashboard and then create charts to visualize your metrics.

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Step-by-step guide

1. On the Dashboards home page, click Create Dashboard and enter the Dashboard name (Game engagement experiment).

2. Either Save the Dashboard now and Edit it to add a chart, or add a chart first and Save at the end.

3. From the Dashboard view, click Add Chart to open the configuration modal.

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

5. Choose the Message sum metric. The chart auto‑populates with the metric configuration.

   

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

7. Click Add to save the configured chart.

   The chart name is generated from 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 didn’t save it earlier. To add more charts, click Edit and add charts.

You can now watch data as it arrives. See when actions trigger at the 100 messages threshold and how that impacts total purchased value.

Illuminate for PubNub partners

If you’re a PubNub partner, you’ll see a drop‑down menu to choose who you’re 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 keysets for selection, assign keysets for this customer in the Partner Portal.