Using the Daily Dashboard

The Daily dashboard 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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 for guidance on reading these logs and charts.

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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.

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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)

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Recordings

The Recordings page lists cloud recordings stored on your domain. From here you can download or delete recordings. See the recording guide for how to enable and configure recording.

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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.

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Settings

The Settings page is where you manage team access to the dashboard.

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User roles

There are two roles on a Daily team:

• Admin: full access, including the API key, billing, and team management. The person who created the account starts as an Admin.
• Member: day-to-day access to rooms, sessions, and API logs.

A team can have more than one Admin. An Admin can change anyone’s role or remove them from the team, but not their own: you cannot change your own role, and you cannot remove yourself from the members table. A Member who wants to leave a team can use Leave team on their own row.

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Dashboard permissions

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Adding team members

1. Click the Settings tab.
2. Click Add member.
3. Copy and share the invite link from the modal that appears.

Two things to know about the invite link:

• It is one shared link, not a per-person invite. Anyone who opens it can join your team, so only send it to people you want on the team.
• It expires 24 hours after you create it. If it has been longer than that, open the modal again to get a fresh link.

Everyone who joins through the invite link joins as a Member, no matter what role you plan to give them. To make someone an Admin, invite them first, then change their role once they show up in the members table.

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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.

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Account

The Account page holds your own name, email address, and password, plus a list of the teams you belong to and your role on each one. This table can show “Owner” where the rest of the dashboard shows “Admin” for the same account. Both mean the same level of access.

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Changing your email address

Type a new address in the Email field and save. Daily sends a confirmation link to the new address, and the change takes effect once you click it.

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Why the email field is greyed out

If you sign in to Daily with Google or with your company’s single sign-on (SSO), you cannot change your email address in Daily. The Email field on the Account page is disabled, and the change is rejected if you try to send it another way. This is by design: your identity provider owns that address, not Daily. You have two options:

• Change the address with your identity provider (Google Workspace, or your SSO admin). This is the right fix if the address itself is wrong or out of date.
• Create a separate Daily account with an email and password, and have an Admin invite it to the team. Use this if you need a Daily login that is not tied to the provider.

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If your company renames its email domain

When your company moves everyone from one email domain to another (for example @oldname.com to @newname.com), your Daily login keeps working. Daily matches you to your identity provider account, not to the text of your email address, so signing in is not affected. What does not happen automatically is the address shown on your Account page and in the members table. It still shows the old address, and you cannot edit it yourself for the reason above. Emails from Daily go to that stored address, so if the old mailbox no longer receives mail, contact support and ask us to update it for you.