> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.daily.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Using the Daily Dashboard
> A tour of the Daily dashboard — manage rooms, inspect sessions, access API keys, and monitor usage.
The [Daily dashboard](https://dashboard.daily.co) is your control center for managing your Daily domain. From here you can create and configure rooms, inspect past and live sessions, manage API keys, and monitor usage.
Create and manage rooms, configure your domain, and explore call settings.
Opening a Daily room URL directly in your browser is a quick way to test [Daily Prebuilt](/docs/prebuilt). For production, you'll want to [embed calls on your own domain](https://www.daily.co/blog/how-to-embed-video-calls-on-your-own-domain/).
## Overview
The Overview page is your domain's home screen. It shows real-time and monthly usage at a glance:
* **Real time**: live session count and active participant count, updated every 15 seconds
* **Monthly overview**: total sessions, participant-minutes, cloud recording minutes and storage, and live streaming usage for the current billing period
* **Rooms**: how many rooms you've created against your account limit
## Sessions
The Sessions page lists all past and live sessions on your domain, with session ID, room name, participant count, duration, and last-active time. Switch between the **Past sessions** and **Live sessions** tabs to filter the view.
### Session details
Clicking a session opens its detail view, showing session status, total participant-minutes, and a per-participant table with packet loss and join time.
### Participant details
Clicking a participant opens a deep-dive view with their browser and OS, network type, and time-series charts for packet loss and bitrate over the duration of their session. Below the charts, a full event log shows every significant event from that participant's perspective — useful for diagnosing reported call quality issues.
See the [logging and metrics guide](/docs/guides/architecture-and-monitoring/logging-and-metrics) for guidance on reading these logs and charts.
## Rooms
The Rooms page lists all rooms on your domain with their creation date. From here you can create new rooms, delete existing ones, update settings on an existing room, and configure default room settings that apply to all newly created rooms.
### Creating a room
Click **Create room** to open the room creation form. Some of the options include:
* **Room name** — leave blank to auto-generate a random name
* **Privacy** — public (anyone with the link) or private (requires a meeting token)
* **Prejoin UI** — whether participants see a name/device configuration screen before joining
* **Knocking** — allow participants to request access to private rooms
* **Cameras and microphones on start** — default device state when joining
* **Various UI Settings** — enable or disable per room (only applies to calls using Daily Prebuilt)
The dashboard room creator is great for testing and for creating internal meeting spaces. In production, use the [REST API](/reference/rest-api/rooms/create-room) to create rooms programmatically — for example, generating a unique room per user or meeting on demand. See the [full room configuration reference](/reference/rest-api/rooms/create-room#body-properties) for the complete list of available properties.
## Recordings
The Recordings page lists cloud recordings stored on your domain. From here you can download or delete recordings. See the [recording guide](/docs/guides/features/recording/index) for how to enable and configure recording.
## Developers
The Developers page has two sections:
* **API keys**: view, create, and rotate your Daily API keys. Your API key authenticates all REST API requests — treat it like a password and never expose it client-side.
* **API logs**: a real-time log of all REST API requests made against your domain, with HTTP status, method, endpoint, and timestamp. Logs are retained for 3 days and are useful for debugging integration issues.
## Settings
The Settings page is where admins manage team access to the dashboard.
### User roles
There are two roles on a Daily team:
* **Admin** — full access, including billing, API keys, and team management
* **Member** — access to rooms, sessions, and API logs, but not billing or API keys
### Dashboard permissions
| Permission | Admin | Member |
| -------------------- | ----- | ------ |
| View API key | ✓ | |
| Regenerate API key | ✓ | |
| Delete rooms | ✓ | |
| Make billing updates | ✓ | |
| Access recordings | ✓ | |
| View domain usage | ✓ | ✓ |
| View session details | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create rooms | ✓ | ✓ |
| View rooms | ✓ | ✓ |
| Change room settings | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access API logs | ✓ | ✓ |
| See members table | ✓ | ✓ |
### Adding team members
1. Click the **Settings** tab.
2. Click **Add member**.
3. Copy and share the invite link from the modal that appears.
### Updating or removing a team member
Click the **⋮** menu to the right of a member's name to change their role or remove them from the team.