> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.fapost.in/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The admin panel

> What the platform-level panel covers, and what it does not.

FaPost has two panels, and knowing which one you are in saves a lot of hunting.

|                       | Covers                                                                            |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Admin panel**       | The installation as a whole — settings, people, media, and the list of assistants |
| **Assistant console** | One assistant — its channels, flows, contacts, and conversations                  |

The admin panel is where you set things up. The console is where you work day to
day. Most of the user guide is about the console; this group is about everything
that sits above it.

## The dashboard

Opening the panel lands you on a set of counters, each linking to what it counts:

* **Assistants** — how many exist, how many are active
* **Contacts** — everyone the installation has ever talked to
* **Channels** — how many are configured and how many are connected
* **Published flows** — flows currently deployed and answering
* **Waiting sessions** — conversations paused mid-flow, awaiting a reply
* **Staff users** — people with access to this tenant

Below them, **Flow Activity** charts the last 14 days.

The counters are the fastest health check available. *Waiting sessions* climbing
without *published flows* changing usually means a flow asks a question nobody is
answering; *channels configured but not connected* means messages are arriving
nowhere.

## What lives here

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Assistants" href="/using/assistants" icon="rocket">
    The list of assistants, and the way into each one's console.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Settings" href="/using/tenant-settings" icon="sliders">
    Languages, runtime limits, and broadcast behaviour — shared by every
    assistant.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Users" href="/using/users" icon="users">
    Who can sign in.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Roles and permissions" href="/using/roles-and-permissions" icon="shield-check">
    What each of them may do.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Media" href="/using/media" icon="image">
    Files assistants can send.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Translations" href="/using/translations" icon="language">
    Content in more than one language.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What does not live here

Channels, flows, contacts, conversations, sessions and logs all belong to a
particular assistant, so they are not in this panel at all. Open the assistant
first — see [The assistant console](/using/console-overview).

The one exception is counting: the dashboard totals contacts and channels across
every assistant, because that is a question about the installation rather than
about one of them.