Dashboard overview
The Fern Dashboard provides a central place to manage your projects, team members, and settings.
Setup
Visit your team’s Dashboard and complete initial setup steps:
Configure your custom domain with automatic DNS record provisioning.
Assign Admin, Editor, or Viewer roles to manage Dashboard and CLI access.
Connect your GitHub repository to your project.
Set up AI-powered chat for your documentation.
Create and manage API keys for CLI authentication in CI/CD.
Let your team sign in to Fern through your identity provider.
Configure default path and search scope for domains shared across multiple repositories.
Metrics
Monitor and analyze how developers interact with your documentation:
Track how developers and bots interact with your documentation.
Monitor search queries to understand what developers are looking for in your docs.
Scan your published docs for broken internal and external links.
View and respond to on-page feedback.
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Review AI chat conversation history and resolution.
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Site management
Manage your documentation site and team collaboration:
View deployment status, domains, CLI version, and GitHub repo details.
Create and manage Fern Editor sessions.
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Export your complete documentation site as a PDF.
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Restrict access to your docs site with a shared password.
Purge Ask Fern end-user query logs on a schedule instead of keeping them indefinitely.
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Temporarily take a site offline without deleting it.
AI features
The dashboard uses AI in these places. Each runs only when you invoke it, and the page content, URL, or diff you provide is sent to a model along with your organization and site context. Fern doesn’t use this data to train AI models.
Classifies the pages of an existing documentation site into a proposed Fern navigation structure during onboarding.
Reads a public URL and proposes colors, typography, and logos for your docs site.
Generates a title and description for pull requests opened from Fern Editor.
Answers questions about your site, configuration, and analytics, and makes edits as a Fern Editor draft or pull request.