# Discourse admin dashboard statistics time generation

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-admin-dashboard-statistics-time-generation/148290
**Category:** Data & reporting
**Created:** [April 16, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-admin-dashboard-statistics-time-generation/148290 "2020-04-16T20:14:38Z")
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### Author: ![VoskCoin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/voskcoin/32/178564_2.png) [@VoskCoin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/VoskCoin)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-admin-dashboard-statistics-time-generation/148290/1 "2020-04-16T20:14:39Z")

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What time does the dashboard pull its stats? I would like to sync it up with 12:00 AM 0000 EST

It is also odd it shows today stats, but they’re never fully accurate? It even says the dashboard has updated within the last 3 minutes?

Heres a screenshot reference of my forums dashboard [https://voskcointalk.com/](https://voskcointalk.com/)

 ![Screen Shot 2020-04-16 at 4.11.11 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/b/3bfd89b4ec5cad4f3a0823c314d898b1ec33f58a.png)  
 ![Screen Shot 2020-04-16 at 4.13.26 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/0/a0b665c7b36ac00ec2a9c25928969ceefe928ad7.png)

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### Author: ![VoskCoin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/voskcoin/32/178564_2.png) [@VoskCoin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/VoskCoin)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-admin-dashboard-statistics-time-generation/148290/2 "2020-04-20T13:26:22Z")

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Hi just wanted to bump this thread in case anyone has some insight on this

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### Author: ![albertocottica](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/albertocottica/32/119622_2.png) [@albertocottica](https://meta.discourse.org/u/albertocottica)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-admin-dashboard-statistics-time-generation/148290/3 "2020-11-13T13:33:50Z")

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Also bump up. I have been wondering about the same thing.

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### Author: ![tanius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tanius/32/135041_2.png) [@tanius](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tanius)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-admin-dashboard-statistics-time-generation/148290/4 "2020-11-13T18:36:06Z")

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I just found in the Sidekiq interface that there is a job `Jobs::DashboardStats` that runs every 30 minutes. That sounds like the job that would generate these stats, but so far triggering it manually had no effect.

To see this information:

1. Go to the Sidekiq interface of your Discourse installation. This is probably not available in a hosted environment, and only on the main site of a Discourse multisite installation. However, for normal standalone Discourse installations, an admin user can access it at:

2. Click on “Scheduler” in the main menu, find the table title “Recurring Jobs” and click on “history” behind it.

3. Filter by job name `Jobs::DashboardStats`. The direct URL to the filtered view would be

Now strangely, when triggering this job manually under “Scheduler” in the Sidekiq interface, I did not see any increase in the field “Activity Metrics → Pageviews → Today” on the admin dashboard, or in any other counter there. I understand that the graphs on the admin dashboard all end at the day before the current one in order to yield comparable values. So the graphs will only change when a new day has completed. But I expected the “Activity Metrics → Today” column to update with every run of the Sidekiq job. So far no success, though.

Input from the team would be welcome. Or we could consult the source code, of course 🤓