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📊 Squirrel Dashboard Overview
The Squirrel Dashboard provides administrators with a real-time, high-level overview of the platform’s performance, system activity, and archiving impact. It’s designed to give actionable insights at a glance — helping you monitor data movement, track storage savings, and ensure Squirrel is running efficiently.
| Once you have logged in with your Admin account, you’ll be presented with the main dashboard screen. |  |
🔍 What the Dashboard Shows You
Each widget is designed to display up-to-date metrics for archiving and restoring data across your SharePoint environment.
Key Metrics Displayed on the Dashboard:
- 📦 Total Archived Data: Displays the total volume of archived data (in terabytes). Useful for tracking the cumulative impact of your archiving policies.
- 📅 Archived Data – Today / This Month / This Year: Shows how much data has been archived over different time frames, helping you measure short- and long-term activity.
- 📁 Total Archive Transactions: The number of files or items that have been successfully archived across all sites.
- 📈 Archive Transactions – Today / This Month / This Year: Breakdowns of archiving activity by day, month, and year.
- 🔄 Total Restore Transactions: Displays the number of items restored from archive back into SharePoint.
- 📥 Restore Transactions – Today / This Month / This Year: Tracks how often users or admins restore files across your environment.
- 💰 Total Savings: A real-time estimate of the storage cost savings achieved by archiving files to Azure Blob Storage instead of retaining them in SharePoint.
- 📊 Percent Archived: Indicates what percentage of your SharePoint storage has been archived so far. This is a key metric to help you measure storage optimization.
- 📰 Latest News: Displays the most recent Squirrel announcements, updates, and new feature releases — keeping admins informed about what's new in the platform.
🧱 Dashboard Widgets Explained
Each metric appears in a widget-style tile designed for clarity and speed. These widgets are updated daily or in real-time (depending on the data type) and provide a live snapshot of the health and performance of your Squirrel environment.
You can use the dashboard to:
- Confirm if scheduled archiving is occurring as expected - Quickly identify spikes in restore activity - Measure storage reclaimed over time - Track cost savings for reporting to stakeholders - Stay updated on the latest platform improvements
If you're unsure about a specific widget or need help interpreting your dashboard data, reach out to [support@smikar.com](mailto:support@smikar.com) for assistance.