Tour the dashboard

When you sign in for the first time, Beacon takes you to the Overview page. Until your application starts sending events, every page will show an empty state — that’s normal. This tour explains what each section does so you know where to come back later.

A thin header runs across the top of every page in Beacon:

Left side — the theme toggle (Light / Dark / Auto). It picks the default based on your operating system but you can override it any time.
Right side — your avatar, your display name, and a small chevron. Clicking it opens the account menu, which has links to your profile and a sign-out option. See Account menu & sign out for details.

Sidebar — the seven sections

The sidebar on the left has two top-level links and five collapsible groups, in this order:

Overview

A top-level link, not a group. Once your application starts sending events, Overview shows your top-level KPIs — daily active users, events ingested, top features used, recent exceptions, and session health. Treat it as your daily check-in page.

Explore

Drill into your event data:

Event Explorer — every event your application has sent, sliced by category, name, time range, and product.
Property Explorer — properties attached to your events. Useful for finding which property values appear most often.
Sessions — user sessions, with start/end times, event counts, and source application.
Actor Identities — how anonymous users are linked to identified users over time.
Environments — install base by operating system, app version, and device type.
Exceptions — exception reports captured by your SDKs, grouped by fingerprint.

Analyze

Higher-level analyses built on top of your event data:

Usage Insights — table of every tracked event with status badges (Active, Growing, Declining, Inactive) and sparkline trends. The first stop when you want to know which features are healthy.
Retention — cohort-based retention heatmaps and churn trends.
Funnels — multi-step conversion funnels (e.g., onboarding → first action → upgrade).
Segments — saved user groupings you can apply as filters across the rest of the product.

Intelligence

Anomalies — automatic detection of unusual usage patterns. Acknowledge or mute the ones you don’t care about.
Alerts — alert rules you’ve defined and recent alert deliveries.

Data

Invalid Events — events your application sent that Beacon couldn’t ingest (bad payload, unrecognized product, etc.). The first stop when expected events aren’t appearing in Event Explorer.
Export — generate CSV exports of your data. (Not available on Starter.)

Settings

Products — your registered applications. You’ll create your first one here.
Allowlists — rules controlling which event categories and names are accepted. See Allowlists Basics when you’re ready.
Users — invite team members and manage who has access.
Roles — what each role can do.
Organization — your organization name, contact email, and other tenant-level settings.
Properties — configure how custom properties are aggregated. (Not available on Starter.)
API Keys — create, view, and rotate the API keys your applications use to send events. You’ll need this when installing an SDK.

Billing

A top-level link, not a group. Click to view your current plan and usage, change plans, manage payment methods, and cancel.

Empty states

Until your application sends its first event, every page shows an empty state with a brief message explaining what would appear there once data flows in. Most pages also link back to First Setup — the guide for creating your first product, generating an API key, and installing an SDK.

→ Account menu & sign out