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# Dashboard overview

> Manage your Fern projects, settings, and team from a central dashboard.

The Fern Dashboard provides a central place to manage your projects, team members, and settings.

## Setup

Visit your team's [Dashboard](https://dashboard.buildwithfern.com/) and complete initial setup steps:

* [Set up custom domain](/learn/dashboard/configuration/custom-domains): Configure your custom domain with automatic DNS record provisioning.
* [Member permissions](/learn/dashboard/configuration/permissions): Assign Admin, Editor, or Viewer roles to manage Dashboard and CLI access.
* [API keys](/learn/dashboard/configuration/api-keys): Create and manage API keys for CLI authentication in CI/CD.
* [Set up SSO](/learn/dashboard/configuration/sso): Let your team sign in to Fern through your identity provider.
* [Integrate GitHub](/learn/dashboard/configuration/github-repo): Connect your GitHub repository to your project.
* [Enable Ask Fern](/learn/docs/ai-features/ask-fern/overview): Set up AI-powered chat for your documentation.
* [Multi-source settings](/learn/dashboard/configuration/custom-domains#multi-source-settings): Configure default path and search scope for domains shared across multiple repositories.

## Metrics

Monitor and analyze how developers interact with your documentation:

* [**Web analytics**](/learn/dashboard/metrics/web-analytics): Track how developers and bots interact with your documentation.
* **Search analytics**: Monitor search queries to understand what developers are looking for in your docs.
* **Broken links**: Scan your published docs for broken internal and external links.
* [Feedback](/learn/docs/user-feedback): View and respond to on-page feedback.
* [Ask Fern conversations](/learn/docs/ai-features/ask-fern/overview): Review AI chat conversation history.

## Site management

Manage your documentation site and team collaboration:

* **Site information**: View deployment status, domains, CLI version, and GitHub repo details.
* [Fern Editor](/learn/docs/writing-content/fern-editor): Create and manage Fern Editor sessions.
* [PDF export](/learn/dashboard/configuration/pdf-export): Export your complete documentation site as a PDF.
* [Password protection](/learn/dashboard/configuration/password-protection): Restrict access to your docs site with a shared password.
* [Query log retention](/learn/docs/ai-features/ask-fern/overview#features): Purge Ask Fern end-user query logs on a schedule instead of keeping them indefinitely.
* [Unpublish a site](/learn/docs/preview-publish/publishing-your-docs#unpublishing-your-docs): 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.

* **Site import**: Classifies the pages of an existing documentation site into a proposed Fern navigation structure during onboarding.
* **Brand extraction**: Reads a public URL and proposes colors, typography, and logos for your docs site.
* [Pull request summaries](/learn/docs/writing-content/fern-editor): Generates a title and description for pull requests opened from Fern Editor.
* [Fern Agent](/learn/docs/ai-features/fern-agent): Answers questions about your site, configuration, and analytics, and makes edits as a Fern Editor draft or pull request.

> Manage your Fern projects, settings, and team from a central dashboard.