Confluence Mission Control: a new space for administrators

Last month Atlassian introduced a new feature: Confluence Mission Control.

Basically, a workspace designed for product administrators, where we now have more information, more control and a single space from which to manage everything that happens in our Confluence instance.

As administrators, we often have to answer all kinds of questions: Who has access to the Confluence space? Who can see this particular content? How much storage do we have free?… the idea of this new feature is precisely to unify all this information in a single place and facilitate the work of administrators.

How do I access Mission control?

The functionality has been introduced last month and will gradually appear in all Confluence Cloud instances with Premium or Enterprise plans.

To enter this new space, you must access your Confluence instance settings from the “Confluence Administration” icon in the top right corner⚙️

If you don’t see it yet, you will have to wait a bit because they are gradually activating it in all instances.

Once you log in, you will see the following information:

General summary of the instance

The first thing you will find is a quick overview of the status and general activity of the instance: spaces, contents, searches, accesses, activated beta features, administrators…

The big picture is already quite useful to place yourself and to know where your instance is and what are the most important data you need to know. But the best thing is that directly from this menu you can access the specific configurations you need without having to move to another screen. For example, to control access you will go directly to the global permissions management. Or to control new features it will take you to the “Beta Features” menu. There are more and more of them, so this feature is especially convenient at the rate we are going.

Activity and contents

Another data accessible from the Mission Control is the information about user activity and content generation in a specific period of time that you can set:

• Daily, weekly or monthly.
• Last 7, 30 or 60 days.

This section gives us a lot of information about the patterns and trends of our team, when do we generate more content? What type of content do we generate? What is the most visited? What searches are the most frequent? But it also includes the number of active spaces, the number of active content elements, the number of spaces with public links enabled?

Undoubtedly a space with a lot of information where we only have to indicate the period we want to consult and we will obtain all the information in real time of our instance.

Alert banners for administrators

When necessary, the control panel will include Alert banners for Administrators, so that they can focus on settings that are not correct or need to be revised.

The user warning banners are also still available, and have their own direct access from the left side menu.

Any more news?

Yes, in addition to Mission Control and all the data provided by this new administrator space, we have some more functionality that we can already see on our site, some of the most useful are:

• Direct access to the audit log.
• Direct access to automation rules.
• Advanced search to locate any menu in the instance administration.

Definitely a feature that helps us administrators to have all the information accessible from a single place. Hopefully soon it will be in all instances and hopefully Atlassian will extend it to Standard subscriptions as well.