View the Communities performance dashboard
The Communities dashboard displays up-to-date status on community usage, membership, content type and activity, and trends by forum and by topic.
Before you begin
Role required: pa_admin
Important:
Starting with the Brazil release, Communities is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer installed on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the Deprecation Process [KB0867184] article in the Now Support Knowledge Base.
Procedure
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Navigate to All > Performance Analytics > Dashboards.
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In the list, select Community > Communities Dashboard.
On dashboard tabs:
- Content types are question, answer, comment, blog, video, or document.
- "Social activity" is any response (answer, comment, blog, video, or document) to a topic that is added by a user other than the originator.
- Content score data is for content created during the last 30 days.
- Click a scorecard to view detailed data or a trend chart.
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Overview tab |
Scorecards In each scorecard, the percentage change in the current period appears under the total over the lifetime of the community.
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Content Analytics tab |
For any chart, you can focus on the most popular content types, forums, or topics by selecting a Breakdown.
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Forum Analytics tab |
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Topic Analytics tab |
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Admin Analytics tab |
Heat maps display data for Number of Posts Moved and Featured Content. |
Related topics
---
title: View the Communities performance dashboard
description: The Communities dashboard displays up-to-date status on community usage, membership, content type and activity, and trends by forum and by topic.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/customer-service-management/communities/view-communities-dashboard.html
release: brazil
product: Communities
classification: communities
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Platform Analytics Solutions for Communities, Configuring communities, Communities, Customer Service Management]
---
# View the Communities performance dashboard
The Communities dashboard displays up-to-date status on community usage, membership, content type and activity, and trends by forum and by topic.
## Before you begin
Role required: pa\_admin
**Important:**
Starting with the Brazil release, Communities is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer installed on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the [Deprecation Process \[KB0867184\]](https://support.servicenow.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0867184) article in the Now Support Knowledge Base.
## Procedure
1. Navigate to **All** > **Performance Analytics** > **Dashboards**.
2. In the list, select **Community** > **Communities Dashboard**.
On dashboard tabs:
- Content types are question, answer, comment, blog, video, or document.
- "Social activity" is any response \(answer, comment, blog, video, or document\) to a topic that is added by a user other than the originator.
- Content score data is for content created during the last 30 days.
- Click a scorecard to view detailed data or a trend chart.
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Overview tab
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Scorecards
In each scorecard, the percentage change in the current period appears under the total over the lifetime of the community.
- Number of current members and total number of questions.
- Percentage of questions that have been marked as **Solved** by the user who asked the question.
- Percentage of questions that have not been answered.
- Total number of attachments \(blogs, videos, and documents\).
Charts
- **Community Activity**: new community members and total sessions for the month.
- **New content** of any type.
- **Top 3 Forums and Topics by Social Activity**: Topics and forums that have received responses from other members. Hold the cursor over an area to view the count of activity.
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Content Analytics tab
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For any chart, you can focus on the most popular content types, forums, or topics by selecting a **Breakdown**.
- **New content** and count of active members who contributed content for the most recent months for the selected breakdown.
- The top 10 items with the highest number of views for the selected breakdown.
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Forum Analytics tab
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- Heat maps display data for **Content** \(total current content volume\), **Views** \(total unique user views\), and **Social Activity**. Forums are listed on the vertical axis and content types appear on the horizontal axis.
- **Additional KPIs**: key performance indicator data for forums.
</td></tr><tr><td>
Topic Analytics tab
</td><td>
- Heat maps display data for **Content** \(total current content volume\), **Views** \(total unique user views\), and **Social Activity**. Topics are listed on the vertical axis and content types appear on the horizontal axis.
- **Additional KPIs**: key performance indicator data for topics.
</td></tr><tr><td>
Admin Analytics tab
</td><td>
Heat maps display data for **Number of Posts Moved** and **Featured Content**.
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</table>
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| title | View the Communities performance dashboard |
| description | The Communities dashboard displays up-to-date status on community usage, membership, content type and activity, and trends by forum and by topic. |
| locale | en-US |
| canonical_url | https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/customer-service-management/communities/view-communities-dashboard.html |
| release | brazil |
| product | Communities |
| classification | communities |
| topic_type | task |
| last_updated | 2026-09-10 |
| reading_time_minutes | 2 |
| breadcrumb | Platform Analytics Solutions for CommunitiesConfiguring communitiesCommunitiesCustomer Service Management |