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Understanding Redaction Dashboard in VIDIZMO

The Redaction Dashboard shows you how much sensitive information VIDIZMO has detected and redacted across your content, all in one place. Instead of opening files one at a time, you see portal totals, trends over time, and the detail for any single asset.

What Is the Redaction Dashboard?​

The Redaction Dashboard is a reporting area in the portal that summarizes every detection and redaction produced by the VIDIZMO Indexer and Studio Space. It reads the actual processing results, so the numbers reflect what was really detected and redacted, not estimates.

It works at two levels. The dashboard gives you the portal picture: totals, trends, and breakdowns. From there you can open the asset report for any single file to see every individual detection on it.

Note: The word for a piece of content is configurable. Depending on your product, the dashboard may call it Media, Evidence, or another term set in your portal's thesaurus.

Why Use the Redaction Dashboard?​

Here are some things you can do with it:

  • See how much PII was detected across all the content you processed this month.
  • Show an auditor what share of detected faces and license plates was actually redacted.
  • Spot the content types that produce the most detections, so you know where redaction effort goes.
  • Find the assets with many low confidence detections that may need a manual review.
  • Track redaction activity week over week to confirm processing is keeping up.

What Can I Do With the Redaction Dashboard?​

The dashboard lets you:

  • Read portal totals for assets processed, detections, redactions, average confidence, and redaction rate.
  • Filter activity by date range, content type, detection method, and detection category.
  • Switch between counting redactions that were added, removed, or all of them.
  • Open any asset to review its individual detections, confidence scores, and timeline.
  • Export any chart or table to CSV for your own reporting.

What the Dashboard Shows You​

The dashboard presents detection and redaction activity for the time period and filters you choose.

Summary Metrics​

Five cards at the top summarize the period:

MetricWhat It Measures
Total ProcessedAssets analyzed for sensitive information
DetectionsItems the Indexer detected
RedactionsDetections that were redacted
Average ConfidenceAverage detection confidence, as a percentage
Redaction RateShare of detections that were redacted

Charts and Breakdowns​

Below the cards, panels group the activity:

  • Detection & Redaction Trends: detections and redactions over time, with Daily, Weekly, and Monthly views.
  • Detection Categories: detections by category, such as PII type or object type.
  • Confidence Distribution: how detections spread across confidence ranges.
  • Content Type Breakdown: detections by content type (video, audio, document, image).
  • Detection Methods: detections by how they were found, such as AI Model, AI NER, Manual, or Regex.
  • Processing Performance: average processing time, assets processed per day, success rate, and average detections per asset.
  • Top 10 Detected PII Entities: the most frequent PII entity types, with counts, average confidence, and the percentage redacted.

Processing Jobs​

The Processing Jobs table lists recent detection and redaction jobs with the asset name, content type, status, who started the job, the date, and how long it took. Select an asset name to open its report.

How Do I Filter the Dashboard?​

A filter bar at the top narrows what every panel shows. You can filter by date range, content type, detection method, and detection category. The date range defaults to the current month and offers presets such as This Week, Last Month, and This Year, plus a Custom option for exact dates.

Filter options reflect the current results, so an option appears only when the active filters return data for it.

Count Modes​

A toggle with three options controls how detections are totaled in the summary cards and trend chart:

  • Added: counts detections and redactions that were applied.
  • Removed: counts redactions that were removed or reverted.
  • All: counts both, for a complete picture.

The count mode changes the totals, not which assets appear.

How Do I Review a Single Asset?​

Select an asset from the Processing Jobs table to open its report. The asset report shows:

  • A header with the thumbnail, title, content type, file size, who uploaded it, and the upload date.
  • A Detection Timeline for video and audio, where a colored strip shows where detections cluster across the duration. For documents, detections are listed by page instead.
  • Summary cards for total detections, items redacted, average confidence, total processing time, and the confidence threshold used on the last job.
  • A Detection Breakdown chart and a Confidence Distribution chart for that asset.
  • A Detections table listing every detection, with its time or page, type, detection method, confidence score, status, and object ID.

The dashboard answers "how is the portal doing overall." The asset report answers "what exactly was found and redacted in this one file."

What's Not Included​

To set expectations, the Redaction Dashboard does not currently:

  • Export to PDF. Charts and tables export to CSV only.
  • Send scheduled or emailed reports.
  • Cover content that was never processed for detection. Assets only appear after the Indexer or Studio Space analyzes them.

Terminology​

TermMeaning
DetectionAn item the Indexer flagged as sensitive, such as a face, license plate, or PII entity
RedactionA detection that was obscured in the output, by blur, mask, mute, or bleep
Confidence scoreHow sure the Indexer is about a detection, shown as a percentage
Detection methodHow a detection was found: AI Model, AI NER, Manual, or Regex
Count modeWhether totals reflect redactions that were added, removed, or all
Processing jobA single detection or redaction run on one asset
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