Streamline Your Confluence Admin Experience with Mission Control for Enhanced Organization and Efficiency
Managing a growing Confluence site can be challenging, especially as teams expand and content accumulates. Have you ever asked yourself, “Who has admin access to our Confluence site (and should they even have it)?” or “Is our content in Confluence effectively addressing our teams’ top questions?” If so, you’re not alone. Without organized, sophisticated admin tools, even the most intuitive collaboration platforms can become cluttered and inefficient over time.
To address these challenges and empower admins to maintain a healthy, well-organized Confluence site, we’re excited to introduce Confluence mission control—a game-changing feature available for Confluence Premium and Enterprise plans. This enhanced admin experience provides a centralized hub for managing site health, streamlining content organization, and ensuring proactive oversight of your Confluence environment.
What is Confluence Mission Control?
Mission control is a dedicated workspace designed specifically for Confluence product admins. It consolidates site-level alerts, insights, and actionable tools into one intuitive interface, making it easier than ever to manage your Confluence site effectively.
This centralized dashboard offers a comprehensive view of your site’s activity and health, enabling admins to make data-driven decisions. For example:
- Track Space Usage: Identify how many spaces exist across your site and which ones have the most active or inactive content.
- Monitor Content Health: Pinpoint stale or underutilized pages that may need refreshing or removal.
- Manage Permissions: Quickly assess public link activity and guest access to ensure your content remains secure.
With mission control, admins now have a single, streamlined location to access top admin tools and gain valuable insights into their site’s performance.
Proactive Site Health Management
One of the standout features of mission control is its ability to help admins stay ahead of potential issues before they escalate. As teams evolve and data grows, maintaining an organized and secure Confluence site becomes increasingly complex. Mission control simplifies this process by providing:
- Engagement Metrics:
- View the total number of active pages, blogs, and whiteboards across your site.
- Identify spaces with the most content and those with significant amounts of inactive content.
- Use these insights to prioritize cleanup efforts and optimize resource allocation.
- External Access Oversight:
- Manage user permissions and content privacy settings by reviewing public link activity and guest access.
- Detect unauthorized users and revoke unnecessary permissions to safeguard sensitive information.
- Beta Features Management:
- Stay informed about enabled beta features on your site and opt into new ones that align with your team’s needs.
- Admin Accountability:
- Ensure you’re aware of all space and page admins, facilitating efficient communication when updates or issues arise.
- Alert Banners:
- Never miss critical tasks, such as granting access to internal or external collaborators, thanks to built-in alert banners within mission control.
Streamlined Content Management
Mission control equips admins with powerful insights to improve how content is managed across their entire site. These include:
- Search Activity Analysis: Understand what your team is searching for and whether their queries yield relevant results.
- Click-Through Rates: Identify popular content and uncover gaps where additional resources may be needed.
- Owner Assignments: Detect spaces with deactivated page owners (e.g., former employees) and reassign ownership to maintain seamless workflows.
Using these insights, admins can take meaningful actions, such as:
- Refreshing outdated content based on leaderboards showing spaces with the highest number of inactive pages.
- Developing new content tailored to frequently searched terms with no results.
- Collaborating with department leads to focus on trending topics or high-usage areas.
Seamless Admin Experience
We understand that being a Confluence admin isn’t easy—it requires balancing day-to-day support with long-term strategic planning. That’s why mission control was designed to save admins time and boost efficiency by consolidating essential tools into one accessible interface.
Key features of the updated navigation menu include:
- Site-Wide Announcements: Easily create banners for company-wide alerts, such as security updates or planned maintenance.
- Audit Logs: Access a full history of changes made to your Confluence site, including permissions, global settings, and add-ons.
- Quick Search Functionality: Find specific settings or configurations faster, from “security configurations” to “global permissions.”
Introducing Space Mission Control
While mission control provides invaluable insights at the site level, we recognize that space admins also need similar capabilities. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce space mission control, now available for space admins. Similar to mission control, this feature focuses on space-level data and actions, allowing admins to:
- Track content usage and engagement metrics within individual spaces.
- Identify and address stale or underperforming pages specific to that space.
- Ensure proper permissions and ownership are maintained at the space level.
Whether you’re a product admin overseeing the entire site or a space admin managing a specific area, mission control empowers you to maintain a healthy, organized, and secure Confluence environment.
Experience Mission Control Today
Ready to take control of your Confluence site and streamline your admin tasks? With Confluence mission control, you’ll gain unparalleled visibility and actionable insights to keep your spaces organized and your content up-to-date.
Don’t yet have access to mission control? Learn more about Confluence Premium and start a free trial today to unlock these powerful features and elevate your admin experience.
By leveraging mission control, you’ll not only simplify your workflow but also ensure that your Confluence site remains a valuable tool for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and productivity. Empower your team with the tools they need to succeed—all while maintaining a clean, secure, and efficient platform.
