Using the Dashboard

Site settings

Manage who can access a site, their permissions, and how the site is connected.

The Settings area of the sidebar groups everything that is about configuring a site rather than reading its traffic: alerts, the Bots Management and Annotations pages, and the Settings menu with Site Options and Installation. It is only shown to members who can administer the site.

#Site Options

The Site Options page is where you manage access and basic site configuration.

#Timezone

The site timezone controls how dates and times are displayed throughout the dashboard.

#Member permissions

This section lists the people who have direct access to the site. For each member you see their name or email, their role (such as Owner, Manager, Admin, or Viewer), and any custom views assigned to them.

  1. Use Add permissions to give another member access.
  2. Edit a member to change their role or assigned views.
  3. Remove a member to revoke their access.

Owners and Managers cannot be edited from here, and you cannot edit your own entry.

#Inherited permissions

Below the direct members, a read-only section shows people who gained access through a network. These entries are managed on the network page, not here — see Networks & teams.

#Installation

The Installation page generates the exact setup steps for the current site.

  1. Choose how your website is served — for example Cloudflare Worker, Lambda@Edge, Apache, or Nginx. The available options depend on your account.
  2. Generate the site token. This is the secret Honeylog uses to accept data for the site. If a token already exists, the button instead lets you rotate it; rotating invalidates the previous token.
  3. Fill in the site details, such as your website address (the domain, without https:// and without www).
  4. Optionally open the advanced fields to tune the event name, files to ignore, batching, and similar settings.

Honeylog then shows the configuration and code to deploy. For step-by-step platform guides, see the installation documentation.

#Bots Management

This page is where you keep track of what you decided to do with each AI and SEO bot. It lists every bot that visited the site in the last 7 days, plus the known bots that did not show up, and for each one you can choose Allowed, Blocked or leave it as Not Managed. Next to the name you see the number of visits in the last 7 days and a small chart of how they were spread over the week, so you can tell a bot that crawls you every day from one that came by once.

One thing to be clear about: this page does not block anything by itself. Blocking still happens in your CDN, your firewall or your robots.txt. What you record here is your intention, and Honeylog uses it to compare with what actually happens in your logs. If a bot you marked as blocked keeps hitting the site, that is something worth knowing.

You can filter the list by state and sort it by visits or by name. Bots Management is only available for single sites.

#Annotations

Annotations are dated notes that show up on your dashboard charts. They are handy for marking a deploy, the start of a campaign, a robots.txt change you made on purpose, or anything else that explains a bump or a dip in traffic. Press Annotate, give the note a name, pick a date and an hour, and it will appear on the charts. Notes you no longer need can be deleted from the same page.

On a single site, below your own notes, there is a read-only list of the automatic annotations Honeylog creates for you, for example when it detects that your robots.txt changed.

Annotations work for networks as well. In that case the page shows only the notes you created for the network, and it is available to the owners and managers of the team.