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\u201cData beats opinion.\u201d \u2013 That one friend who always wins arguments because they brought the sources.<\/p>\n

As your team and digital asset collection grow, staying organized becomes challenging. Who\u2019s using which assets? How often are they accessing them? Are your storage and bandwidth resources going to the right places? Cloudinary\u2019s Digital Asset Management (DAM) Admin Usage provides clear metrics, so you don\u2019t have to guess.<\/p>\n

As a DAM admin, you need real visibility into user behavior. With Cloudinary\u2019s DAM usage data tools, tracking how your team interacts with your Media Library just got easier. Now, you can manage users, check permissions, and streamline your workflows based on actual data and not just assumptions.<\/p>\n

In this blog post, we\u2019ll explore the Assets Admin Dashboard<\/a>. Only accessible to Master admins, this single screen is updated daily with the essentials. You only need a minute to understand what\u2019s going on in your workflow. It delivers up-to-date metrics so you can quickly identify issues, spot trends, and take early actions to optimize asset management and team productivity.<\/p>\n

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Please note that this dashboard is a premium offering for the Assets product, and its availability depends on your account setup. It\u2019s not included with the Assets Free<\/strong> plan but is available with the Assets Enterprise<\/strong> plan. Please visit our pricing page<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If some features aren\u2019t yet enabled for your account and you\u2019d like to activate them, please contact your Customer Success Manager. For upgrade options or more information, contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this dashboard, we can find the following sections that display the metrics we care about:<\/p>\n

Overview<\/h2>\n

The Overview section provides us with the essentials, allowing us to see important information about our Assets at a glance. At a quick glance, we can see the following:\nThe total number of assets by their type (images, videos, or other files).\nThe number of users we have and their respective roles.\nThe number of internal collections we\u2019ve created, and how many of these collections are published, with how many assets are inside them.\nThe number of live portals we currently have.<\/p>\n

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You could leverage these metrics in different ways. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n