Dashboard & inbox3 min readUpdated May 18, 2026

Dashboard charts explained — call volume, urgency, peak hours

The three charts at the top of your dashboard tell you everything you need to know about how Salva is performing. Here's how to read them.

Dashboard & inbox

Dashboard charts explained — call volume, urgency, peak hours

The three charts at the top of your dashboard tell you everything you need to know about how Salva is performing. Here's how to read them.

Salva AI · Learn
  1. 1Live status — your AI agent is answering calls and chats right now.
  2. 2Overview tiles roll up interactions, appointments, calls and chats.
  3. 3Emergencies are counted on their own so they never hide inside the totals.
Your dashboard at a glance. Hover or tap a marker.

Why three charts and not ten

Each chart answers a specific question. Combined, they tell you everything you need to operate the AI well.

ChartQuestion it answers
Call volume"Is my call traffic growing? Did the marketing campaign work?"
Urgency breakdown"What share of my calls actually need a human?"
Peak hours"When should my staff be available, and when is Salva covering for them?"

Reading the call volume chart

A line chart of daily inbound calls (voice + chat) for the last 30 days. Each point includes both successfully handled calls and any calls Salva couldn't answer (e.g., at the voice-minute limit).

What to look for:

  • Steady weekly rhythm — Monday is usually the busiest day, Friday usually the lightest.
  • Unexpected spikes — paid traffic, a referral surge, or a local news mention.
  • Drops — possible carrier issue or call forwarding misconfiguration. Investigate same-day.
Call volume
Handled by Salva vs. total calls, last 7 days · sample data

Reading the urgency breakdown

A horizontal bar (or pie) showing the share of routine / urgent / emergency calls. Most dental practices land in this range:

  • Routine — 75–90%
  • Urgent — 8–20%
  • Emergency — 1–5%
Urgency breakdown
Share of routine, urgent & emergency calls · sample data

Big deviations are signals:

  • Emergency > 10% — your classifier may be over-triggering. Review the keyword list and see if everyday phrasing is matching.
  • Urgent > 30% — likely a high-pain-volume patient base. Common for endodontic practices.
  • Routine > 95% — probably an under-served emergency line. Confirm patients with real emergencies are reaching you.

Reading peak hours

A heatmap or bar chart of inbound volume per hour of the day. This is where you find the real schedule pressure on your front desk — not where you think it is.

The most common surprise: practices regularly see 15–25% of their volume after hours. If you're staffing exclusively for 9–5, that's a lot of new-patient potential you'd be losing without Salva.

Peak contact hours
Inbound volume by hour of day · sample data

What charts don't show

Charts are aggregates. For individual call audits — the actual transcript, the reasoning behind a classification — open the conversation from your inbox or the full Conversations view.


Published May 18, 2026

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