The Conversations Dashboard provides insights into how conversations are handled by your virtual assistant (VA). It shows how many conversations were successfully answered by the VA, how many were transferred to agents, and how many were incomplete. You can also view other metrics, such as the trend of conversation sessions, the conversation path analysis, the session distribution by channel, and the VA’s engagement grouped by self-service, drop-off, and agent transfer sessions.
To view the Conversations Dashboard, click the Analyze tab on the top menu and then click Conversations Dashboard in the left navigation. Select appropriate filters on the dashboard and click Apply.
The Conversations Dashboard is organized into four categories based on the conversation behavior, explained below.
Conversation Sessions
Conversation Sessions displays the total number of conversations between the virtual assistant and a user in a specific period of time. The session starts when a user sends a message and ends when the user indicates that the problem is solved, abandons the chat, or reaches the agent transfer node. For details on the metrics used in each widget/category, see the Metrics Table section in this document.
Self-service Rate
Self-service sessions refer to the conversations that the virtual assistant contains. The Self-service Rate widget displays the percentage and total number of self-service conversations. It also shows the percentage increase or decrease in the self-service conversations from the last selected period. For example, if you select the past 24 hours’ data, the widget displays the percentage and total conversation sessions contained in the past 24 hours. Based on your selection, the widget can also display the rise or drop in the percentage of conversation sessions from the previous 24 hours. Any ongoing conversation is classified under Self-service conversation.
If a dialog task reaches the End Of Dialog node, the task is considered as completed and categorized as a self-service. There could be a scenario where a virtual assistant is configured with either a Welcome event or an On-Connect event, and there are multiple messages sent by the virtual assistant without any user interaction. In this case, the platform considers this task as contained and increases the self-service count. For details on the metrics used in each widget/category, see the Metrics Table section in this document.
Drop-off Rate
A drop-off is a conversation session where the user abandons the conversation without completing the task. Below are a few scenarios where the conversations can lead to a drop-off:
- A user left the conversation midway without completing any task.
- The task ended as a failure.
- The last interaction/message resulted in an ‘intent not identified’ scenario.
- No response from the assistant.
- The user abandons the assistant during a live conversation.
The Drop-off Rate widget displays the percentage and the total number of drop-offs within a selected period. It also shows the percentage increase or decrease in the drop-off sessions from the last selected period. For details on the metrics used in each widget/category, see the Metrics Table section in this document.
Agent Transfer Rate
Some conversations may require human assistance as the users can’t finish the tasks using the virtual assistant. In such cases, the session is handed over to a human agent for help. When the conversation reaches the point where it’s transferred to an agent – the dialog reaches the agent transfer node, the platform considers this as an Agent Transfer session.
The Agent Transfer Rate widget displays the percentage and total number of agent transfers within the selected period. It also shows the percentage increase or decrease in the agent transfer sessions from the last selected period. For details on the metrics used in each widget/category, see the Metrics Table section in this document.
Metrics Table
Refer to the table below for the list of widgets present across each category on the Conversations Dashboard.
| Metric | Description |
| Conversation Session Trend | A line chart that displays the conversation session over a period of time.
Conversation Sessions: Displays the total conversations, self-service, drop-off, and agent transfer sessions over a period of time. Self-Service: Displays self-service versus total conversation line chart over a period of time. Drop-Off: Displays drop off versus total conversation line chart over a period of time. Agent Transfer: Displays agent transfer versus total conversation line chart over a period of time. Scenarios considered as ‘agent hand-off’ sessions:
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| Message Trend | A line chart that displays the total number of messages sent by the virtual assistant versus total number of messages received in the VA over a time period.Â
This metric is available only for the Conversation Session. |
| Session Distributed by Channel | Displays the number of sessions distributed across all the channels in a timeframe.
This metric is available only for the Conversation Session. |
| Most Active Hours | A bar chart that displays the most active hours in a day based on the number of conversation and number of messages.
Conversation Sessions: Displays total number of hours for self-service, drop-off and agent transfer sessions over a period of time. Self-Service: Displays total number of hours for self-service sessions distributed hourly. Drop-off: Displays total number of hours for drop-off sessions distributed hourly. Agent Transfer: Displays total number of hours for agent transfer sessions distributed hourly. |
| Conversation Path Analysis | A table showing every unique conversation path between the VA and the users that has been executed over a period of time.
Conversation Session: Displays the most popular conversation path. Self-Service: Displays the conversation path that leads to self-service. Drop-off: Displays the conversation path that leads to self-service. Agent Transfer: Displays the conversation path that leads to agent transfer. |
| Engagement Analysis | An interactive bar chart that allows you to analyze the VA’s engagement based on the number of messages exchanged, conversation duration and task completion. |
| Avg. Conversation per Day | A scorecard that displays the average number of conversation sessions per day and comparison analysis for the selected period.
Formula Avg Conversation Per Day = Total Number of conversation / Number of days. Comparison Analysis in % (Increase/Decrease) This metric is available only for the Conversation Session. |
| Average Conversation Per User | A score card that displays the average number of conversations by user.
Formula Average Conversation Per User = Total number of conversation / Total number of users. This metric is available only for the Conversation Session. |
| Average Conversation Length | A scorecard that displays the average duration of a conversation (in Minutes).Â
Formula Average Conversation Length = Total conversation length / Total number of conversations. User may apply filter on Session Status and in such cases the calculation is mentioned as below: Conversation Length (for completed conversations) = Conversation End timestamp – Conversation Start timestamp. Conversation Length (for ongoing conversations) = Dashboard Load timestamp – Conversation Start timestamp. This metric is available only for the Conversation Session. |
| Total Messages | A score card that displays the total number of messages received from the user and sent by the VA.Â
This metric is available only for the Conversation Session. |
| Average Messages Per Session | A score card that displays the average number of messages per session.
Formula Average Message Per Session = Total number of messages / Total number of sessions during the timeframe. This metric is available only for the Conversation Session. |
Filter Criteria
The Conversations data can be viewed based on specific filter criteria that can be selected. Learn more.
| Widget Type | Session Tags | User Tags | Message Tags |
| Successful Tasks | Applicable | Applicable | Not Applicable |
| Sessions | Applicable | Applicable | Not Applicable |
| Messages & Conversation Sessions | Applicable | Applicable | Applicable for Chats |
| Intent Recognized vs. Failed | Applicable | Applicable | Not Applicable |
| Top Tasks | Applicable | Applicable | Not Applicable |
| Top Channels | Applicable | Applicable | Not Applicable |
| Agent Transfer | Applicable | Applicable | Not Applicable |