Usage Dashboard

Description

The Usage Dashboard gives dotCMS customers a visual way to monitor core instance usage metrics right inside their production environment. The new Usage tool displays up to the minute Content, Site, System Configuration, and User metrics for their cloud dotCMS instances.

Easily see the amount of content being managed in dotCMS, how many sites and templates are in use, how content is being managed with containers and workflows and the number of locales content is being translated into. The dashboard also shows how many active and inactive users are in the instance.

This dashboard is available exclusively on Evergreen instances and is designed to empower both operational visibility and strategic decisions about growth, capacity, and billing implications.

Benefits

For Content & Editorial Teams

• See high-level content metrics (e.g., total content items and content types) at a glance.

• Understand how site structures and active content contribute to overall usage.

For DevOps & Platform Teams

• Track instance usage against pricing tier limits to anticipate capacity.

• Monitor site metrics including the number of active sites, templates, and languages from a single interface.

• Gain visibility into workflows and user activity helping with performance and governance insights.

Use Cases

Usage Monitoring
An administrator checks the pricing dashboard to see how many content types and sites are in use, ensuring the organization stays within its current pricing tier.

Capacity Planning
A team tracks content growth trends over time to plan for pricing tier upgrades before usage limits are reached.

System Onboarding & Overview
A new administrator uses the dashboard to quickly understand the scope of a dotCMS instance — from number of users and languages to workflows and templates — without digging into multiple admin screens.

Resources

• dotCMS Pricing Page

• CMS Pricing Models Blog Post