Getting Started
This guide walks you through your first session with Pulse.
Prerequisites
Section titled “Prerequisites”- Pulse is installed on your site.
- You have at least one Confluence space with a handful of pages.
1. Open the Global Dashboard
Section titled “1. Open the Global Dashboard”In Confluence, click Apps → Pulse Dashboard in the top menu.
The first time you open it, Pulse runs an initial scan. Depending on instance size this takes a few seconds to a few minutes. When the scan finishes, the dashboard renders.
2. Skim the summary cards
Section titled “2. Skim the summary cards”At the top of the Dashboard you’ll see summary cards covering your whole instance:
- Health Score (average across all scanned pages)
- AI-Ready Score (average across all scanned pages)
- Total Pages scanned
- Broken Links detected across all spaces
- Spaces Scanned
Each score has a coloured lozenge — Healthy, Needs Attention, or At Risk — based on standard 0–100 score thresholds.
3. Check the Attention Alert
Section titled “3. Check the Attention Alert”If any page in your instance is high-traffic but low-health, Pulse surfaces it in a yellow attention alert at the top of the dashboard. These are the highest-leverage pages to fix first — they’re being read often but score poorly.
4. Walk through the four tabs
Section titled “4. Walk through the four tabs”Use the tabs across the dashboard:
- Space Overview — every space ranked by average Health and AI-Ready, with broken-link counts.
- All Pages — every scanned page sorted by Health Score, with views and last-modified date. Click any row to open the page in Confluence.
- Trends — line charts showing how Health, AI-Ready, and broken-link counts have moved across scans.
- Settings (admin only) — define your house rules. See Custom Policies.
5. Drill into a space
Section titled “5. Drill into a space”To look at a single space in detail, open that space in Confluence and click Pulse Health in the space sidebar.
The space view has the same shape as the global dashboard but scoped to one space, with three tabs:
- All Pages — every page in this space with Words, Headings, Views, and Last Modified.
- Broken Links — every broken internal link in this space, showing the source and the target page.
- Trends — same charts as the global view but for just this space.
6. Read the inline badges
Section titled “6. Read the inline badges”Open any Confluence page. Just below the title, under the byline, you’ll see a small lozenge with the page’s Health Score and AI-Ready values. This is the same data as the dashboards, available right where authors are writing.
7. Optional: tighten your house rules
Section titled “7. Optional: tighten your house rules”If your team has specific content standards — e.g., “every page needs a non-placeholder title and at least two headings” — open Pulse Dashboard → Settings as an admin and configure Custom Policies. Saved rules apply to the next scan.
What scans Pulse runs
Section titled “What scans Pulse runs”| Trigger | What it does |
|---|---|
| On install | Initial scan of accessible spaces, kicked off the first time you open the Dashboard. |
| Weekly | Full automatic re-scan of all spaces. |
| On every page event | When a page is created, edited, or deleted, its score is updated in real time (via Confluence event triggers). |
You generally don’t need to trigger scans manually — the combination above keeps the dashboard current.
- Content Health Score — how the 0–100 score is structured.
- AI-Ready Score — what it measures and why.
- Broken Link Detection — what counts as broken.
- Custom Policies — define your own rules.
Stuck? See Troubleshooting & FAQ or email support@bytera.tech.