The Atlas dashboard: a visual tour

This is a picture-by-picture walkthrough of the Atlas dashboard, written for people who are not developers. If you can manage a Gmail account, you can run Atlas. Every screen below is the real dashboard — no mock-ups — so what you see here is exactly what you'll see when you sign in.

The tour is in six parts. This first part gets you in the door and oriented; the others walk every feature area one screen at a time:

1. A visual tour (this page) — signing in, your workspace, and reading the home screen.

2. Users & organizations — the people who use your app, and the companies they belong to.

3. Designing sign-in — which sign-in methods you offer and how the login screen looks.

4. Authorization — deciding who is allowed to do what.

5. Developer tools — the settings your engineers wire up once.

6. Running it day to day — security, logs, usage, teammates and billing.

You never need to touch code to use anything on these screens.

Signing in

Your team signs in to Atlas at its hosted sign-in page. It's the same kind of page your own users will see — a clean card with your sign-in options and nothing else.

You can sign in with Google or with an email address. Enter your email, click Continue, and Atlas either asks for your password or emails you a one-time code — whichever your account uses. There's nothing to install.

Your first workspace

The very first time you sign in, Atlas asks you to create a workspace. A workspace is simply a container for your applications and the people who use them. You give it a name (your company), name your first application, and Atlas sets up two ready-to-use environments for you: a Development one for testing and a Production one for real users.

You can rename any of this later, so don't overthink it. Click Create workspace and you're in.

The home screen (Overview)

This is the first thing you land on. Think of it as the dashboard's front page — a glance at everything happening in the selected environment.

A few things worth pointing out, because they appear on every screen:

• The left sidebar is your menu. It's grouped into sections — Users & orgs, Sign-in, Authorization, Developers, Manage and Account — and this tour follows those groups in order.

• The Development / Production switch at the top lets you flip between your test environment and your live one. Changes you make in Development never touch real users. Always confirm which one is selected (it's highlighted) before you change a setting.

• The publishable key (pk_live_…) sits at the top with a Copy button. This is a public key your app uses to talk to Atlas — it's safe to share and safe to put in a website. (The secret key, which is not safe to share, lives elsewhere — we'll get to it.)

• The command palette (the Search ⌘K button) jumps you to any screen or record instantly. Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) from anywhere.

The cards on the home screen — Monthly active users, Sign-ins, Sign-ups, Total users, Organizations — fill in automatically as people use your app. On a brand-new instance they read zero. The Getting started checklist at the bottom nudges you through first-time setup.

That's the lay of the land. Next: the people who use your app →