This article explains how to view and manage Signals in Novus. Signals help you identify product issues, discover opportunities, and track insights based on how visitors interact with your application.

Introduction to Signals

Signals are automatically generated observations about your product's performance. They highlight changing trends, potential problems, and areas where you can improve the visitor experience.

Each signal is grouped into one of three categories:

• Issue: Indicates that something in your product is broken or performing poorly, such as a drop in conversions, and requires your attention.
• Opportunity: Highlights an area of untapped potential, such as a feature that could benefit from better visibility.
• Insight: Provides informational observations about product usage trends.

Signals are also assigned a priority of High, Medium, or Low to help you decide what to focus on first.

Key metrics

The Key Metrics section provides a snapshot of top-level performance indicators for your product. These metrics include data points like visitor counts, feature adoption rates, and overall engagement.

Each metric displays:

• The current value for the given date range.
• The trend direction, showing whether the metric is moving up, down, or remaining flat compared to the previous period.
• The percentage change.

To learn more about a specific metric, click the metric card to expand an inline analysis drawer showing a trend chart and an option to view all records in a full-screen view, or select Ask Novus to start a conversation and ask detailed questions about the data.

Supporting Signal data

When you view a signal, Novus provides context to help you understand why the signal was generated. This includes the description of the trend or issue, its category, its priority, and any cited code review comments (Found in code review) if the signal was mapped to a UX-review finding.

If you need more context about what the signal means, you can select the signal description to automatically ask Novus for a detailed explanation.

You can also track the progress of a signal through its status badge:

• Open: A new signal that hasn't been investigated.