What are analytics projects?
In Userorbit, an analytics project is a container for all the data and configuration related to a specific product or environment. Each project has its own events, user profiles, dashboards, and settings. This separation keeps your data organized and ensures that staging data never mixes with production data.
Most teams start with a single project for their main product. As your needs grow, you can add projects for different platforms, environments, or product lines.
What does a dashboard contain?
A dashboard is a collection of charts, counters, and tables arranged on a single page. Each dashboard belongs to a project and draws data from that project's events and users.
A typical dashboard includes:
- Charts — Line charts, bar charts, pie charts, and funnels that visualize trends and distributions over time.
- Counters — Single-number displays that show a key metric at a glance, such as daily active users or total signups this week.
- Tables — Tabular breakdowns of events, properties, or user attributes for detailed analysis.
Every project comes with a default dashboard that shows core metrics like active users, event volume, and top events. You can customize this default dashboard or create additional ones.
The relationship between projects and dashboards
Projects and dashboards have a one-to-many relationship: each project can have multiple dashboards, but each dashboard belongs to exactly one project.
This means you can create focused dashboards for different audiences within the same project:
- An executive dashboard with high-level KPIs and growth trends.
- A feature dashboard tracking adoption and usage of a specific feature.
- An engineering dashboard monitoring error events and performance metrics.
- A marketing dashboard showing acquisition channels and conversion funnels.
How dashboards stay current
Dashboards in Userorbit update in near real-time. As new events arrive, charts and counters reflect the latest data without requiring a manual refresh. You can also set specific date ranges to analyze historical trends.
Sharing and collaboration
Dashboards are visible to all team members by default. You can share a direct link to any dashboard, making it easy to align your team around the same metrics. When someone creates a new dashboard, it appears in the project's dashboard list for everyone on the team.
If you need to present data to stakeholders outside your team, you can export individual charts or take snapshots of the full dashboard.
Organizing your dashboards
As your analytics practice matures, you may accumulate many dashboards. Keep them useful by following a few guidelines:
- Give each dashboard a clear, descriptive name that indicates its purpose.
- Archive dashboards that are no longer actively used rather than deleting them.
- Pin your most important dashboards for quick access.
- Review dashboards periodically to ensure the metrics shown are still relevant.