Anatomy of Platform Health
Four tiles. The flagship Sheepit dashboard, explained.
The first dashboard you'll see when you sign up is Platform Health. It's four tiles. The point isn't to give you every metric β the point is to give you the ones you'd be most embarrassed to miss.
The four tiles
- Daily active users β 24h unique count. This is the default: its 30-day trend is what's already in the big chart when the page loads.
- Sessions β 24h count. Click the tile to swap the big chart to its own 30-day trend.
- Signups β 24h count of your signup event. Click to see its 30-day trend.
- Errors β 24h count of captured errors. No separate trend here β clicking it just re-shows the same 24h window.
Why these four?
Because they cover the signals that matter together: usage (DAU + sessions), growth (signups), and reliability (errors). DAU's trend greets you by default; click Sessions or Signups to make the big chart theirs instead β one dashboard, driven by whatever you're focused on right now.
When to build your own
Platform Health is the shared dashboard for the whole team. Build your own when you have a specific question ("how is the new checkout doing this hour?") or a specific audience ("the marketing team wants signups by channel"). One dashboard, one question, one audience. That's the rule.