--- title: "Read the dashboard" description: "Understand what each dashboard figure counts, how the percentage beside it is worked out, and why the moderation numbers never overlap." canonical: https://docs.afp.monster/guides/dashboard updated: 2026-08-19 pageType: guide --- The dashboard answers one question per figure: how much work your automations did in a period, and how much of it was moderation. Two controls at the top drive everything below — which account you are looking at, and which period. Each figure carries a percentage comparing that period with the one immediately before it, so a number is always shown against its own recent history rather than in isolation. ![The AFP dashboard with the account and period filters, the Triggers and Replies cards, and the Cleaner card with its chart](../../../assets/screenshots/guides/dashboard/stat-cards.webp) ## What you need first - At least one connected page. With none, every figure is zero. See [Connect a page](/start/connect-a-page). - At least one campaign that has run, for the triggers and replies figures to move. See [Build a campaign on the canvas](/guides/build-a-campaign). ## What do the two filters do? The account selector narrows everything to one Facebook profile, or leaves it at **All Accounts**. The period selector sets the window every figure is counted over: | Period | Window | |---|---| | Last 24 hours | The past day | | Last 3 days | The past three days | | Last 7 days | The past week | | Last 30 days | The past month | | This year | 1 January to today | | All time | Everything on record | | Custom | Dates you choose | Changing either filter recalculates every figure and the chart together. ## What does each figure count? | Card | Figure | Counts | |---|---|---| | Triggers | From comments | Comments your automations processed in the period | | Triggers | From DMs | Automations started by a direct message | | Replies | To comments | Comments AFP published a reply on | | Replies | To DMs | Direct messages AFP sent | | Cleaner | Hidden comments | Comments AFP hid | | Cleaner | Deleted comments | Comments AFP deleted | | Cleaner | Blocked users | Comments that resulted in the commenter being blocked | A comment that triggered an automation and got a reply is counted once under **Triggers** and once under **Replies**. Those two cards measure different stages of the same event, so they are not meant to add up to each other. Comments that failed because a sign-in expired or a subscription lapsed are not counted as triggers. That keeps the triggers figure a measure of work done rather than work attempted. Those failures surface as notifications instead — see [Notification catalogue](/reference/notifications). ## Why do the comment and DM figures never overlap? Because they come from separate places and cover separate events. **From comments** counts comments; **From DMs** counts automations a message started. Nothing is in both, so the two halves of a card add together to the total for that card. ## Why do hidden, deleted, and blocked never add up to more than the total? Because a comment has exactly one moderation state. It is hidden, or deleted, or the commenter was blocked — never two at once. When more than one thing happened to a comment, the strongest one wins: 1. Blocked 2. Deleted 3. Hidden So a comment that was deleted and whose author was then blocked appears once, under **Blocked users**, and not under **Deleted comments**. That is why the three figures can be added without double-counting, and why the deleted figure agrees with the chart beside it. ## What does the percentage mean? It compares the period you selected with the period of the same length immediately before it. **Last 7 days** is compared against the seven days before those. A figure with nothing to compare against shows no percentage rather than showing zero. The comparison is anchored to when the comment arrived, not to when AFP acted on it. A comment that arrived at the end of one window and was moderated at the start of the next is counted in the first. ## Why is it not working? | Symptom | Cause | Fix | |---|---|---| | Every figure is zero | No connected page, or no campaign has run | Connect a page and activate a campaign | | Triggers move but replies do not | The automations are moderating rather than replying | Expected if your campaigns hide or delete without a reply node | | A figure dropped sharply with no change in activity | A page lost access part-way through the period | Check the notification panel and [Page permissions and tokens](/reference/page-permissions) | | Deleted looks lower than you expect | Comments whose author was also blocked count as blocked, not deleted | Add the deleted and blocked figures together | | No percentage appears | There is no comparable earlier period | Nothing to fix — pick a shorter period to get a comparison | | The figures disagree with the activity list | The activity list shows individual comments; the dashboard counts them by state over a window | Use the activity list to check individual comments | ## Related - [Moderate comments automatically](/guides/comment-moderation) — the campaigns behind the moderation figures. - [Bulk-remove comments with the cleaner](/guides/cleaner) — the other way comments get hidden and deleted. - [Test and debug campaigns](/guides/test-and-debug-campaigns) — what to check when triggers are lower than expected. - [Notification catalogue](/reference/notifications) — the alerts raised by the failures the dashboard excludes.