Anatomy of Platform Health

The first dashboard you'll see when you sign up is Platform Health. It's six tiles, refreshed every 30 seconds. The point isn't to give you every metric — the point is to give you the six you'd be most embarrassed to miss.

The six tiles

1. Active flags — flags currently flipped on in production. Leading indicator of in-flight risk.
2. Events per hour — your ingest pulse. If it drops, something stopped talking to us.
3. Crashes (24h) — count + new-signature flag. One new signature beats ten old ones.
4. Last release — what shipped, when, and whether it left a regression.
5. Conversion (24h) — your top-of-funnel metric vs. yesterday. (You configure which event counts.)
6. Free-tier credit left — for when you're still on the free tier and curious.

Why these six?

Because they cover the four signals that matter together: code (releases), product (flags + conversion), reliability (crashes), and volume (events). If all four are healthy, the platform is healthy. If one's red, you have a real problem and a place to start.

When to build your own

Platform Health is the shared dashboard for the whole team. Build your own when you have a specific question ("how is the new checkout doing this hour?") or a specific audience ("the marketing team wants signups by channel"). One dashboard, one question, one audience. That's the rule.