Live Monitoring: Focused View

In the Focused View, the Live Monitoring page shows all agents and contacts The communication with the customer, handled by agent or chat bot over a single channel. A contact may consist of multiple segments. A single channel can be any voice or digital DFO channel such as chat, SMS, and so on. in specific teams. On this page, you can perform various monitoring actions. The Focused View is intended for conventional supervisors who need detailed and real-time information about a specific group of agents and contacts. This view has advanced filtering options.

The Live Monitoring page contains a Skills tab, an Agents tab, and a Contacts tab. You can search, filter, and sort the data on each tab. The widgets under each tab provide a bird's eye view of agents, skills Used to automate delivery of interactions based on agent skills, abilities, and knowledge, and contact states.

To learn more about the difference between the Focused view and Overall view, see here.

Filters

The Teams, Contact Skill, and Contact Campaign filters are the primary filters. You must apply at least one primary filter to view data on the Live Monitoring page.

The data displayed on this page is automatically filtered as per the data restrictions applied.

The Skills tab displays data as per the Campaign restrictions defined in the ACD data restrictions. See Manage Access to ACD Data.
The Agents and Contacts tabs display data as per the user-based restrictions defined in the user view assigned to you.

You can further refine the data with additional filters to focus on relevant information. When you apply filters, your preferences are saved.

Learn more about filters

FILTER	Description	Notes
Team	Shows all agents that are assigned to the selected teams.	Applicable to all tabs.
Skill Name	Shows all skills matching the selected skill names.	Only applicable to the Skills tab.
Contact Skill	Shows all agents that are currently handling contacts in the selected skills.	Only applicable to the Agents and Contacts tab.
Campaign Name	Shows all campaigns A grouping of skills used to run reports. matching the selected campaigns.	Only applicable to the Skills tab.
Contact Campaign	Shows all agents that are currently handling contacts in the selected campaigns.	Only applicable to the Agents and Contacts tab.
Channel	Shows all ongoing contacts matching the selected channel type.	Only applicable to the Agents and Contacts tab.
Agent State	Shows all agents matching the selected states. The Unavailable category will select all breakdown codes as well.	Only applicable to the Agents and Contacts tab.
Contact State	Shows all contacts matching the selected states.	Only applicable to the Agents and Contacts tab.
Active/Inactive Contact	Shows all ongoing contacts currently focused (if Active is selected) or the contacts assigned to agents and not focused (if Inactive is selected).	Only applicable to the Agents and Contacts tab.
Direction	Shows all ongoing contacts matching the selected direction - Inbound or Outbound.	Only applicable to the Agents and Contacts tab.
SLA	Shows all skills matching the selected SLA value - In SLA or Out of SLA.	Only applicable to the Skills tab.
Customer Sentiment	Shows all contacts matching the selected Customer Sentiment value: Positive, Neutral, and Negative.	Only available to the licensed Real-Time Interaction Guidance users. Only applicable to the Agents and Contacts tab.
Contact Duration	Shows all contacts that match the defined duration, where duration is counted from the minute the agent was assigned to the current time.	Only applicable to the Agents and Contacts tab.
Contact State Duration	Shows all contacts that match the selected duration of the current contact state.	Only applicable to the Contacts tab. For example, if a contact was active for 10 minutes and then put on hold for one minute, the contact state duration is 1 minute, whereas the contact duration is 11 minutes.
Agent State Duration	Shows all agents that match the selected duration for the current agent state.	Only applicable to the Agents tab.

Skills Tab

Using the Skills tab, you can identify the SLA Commitment between a service provider and a customer with a defined service level threshold, including quality, availability, and responsibilities percentage and the number of logged-in agents for each skill Used to automate delivery of interactions based on agent skills, abilities, and knowledge.

The Skills tab contains the following widgets:

Skills Out of SLA: Displays the percentage of skills outside the service level agreement (SLA Commitment between a service provider and a customer with a defined service level threshold, including quality, availability, and responsibilities) threshold. You can hover over the value to view the number of skills that are in SLA and out of SLA. Click this widget to sort by the SLA percentage. The skill with highest out of SLA percentage appears at the top.
Contacts in Queue: Displays the number of contacts The communication with the customer, handled by agent or chat bot over a single channel. A contact may consist of multiple segments. A single channel can be any voice or digital DFO channel such as chat, SMS, and so on. (voice or digital Any channel, contact, or skill associated with Digital Experience.) currently waiting in queue. Click this widget to sort by the Contacts column. The skill with highest number of contacts in queue appears at the top.
Longest Wait Time: Displays the current longest wait time of a contact in the queue. Click this widget to sort by the Wait Time column. The skill with a contact that has the longest wait time appears at the top.

There is also a grid that displays skill details such as:

Wait time of the longest contact in the skill.
The SLA percentage.
Number of contacts in queue.
Number of logged-in agents for each skill.

When you click a row in the grid, a panel appears to the right. In this panel, you can:

View all agents assigned to the selected skills, their proficiency score, their current state, and the duration they are in the current state.
Filter agents list by categories: Assigned to selected teams, Assigned active, Assigned inactive, Assigned to other teams, and Unassigned.

To ensure agents appear in the Assigned to selected teams filter, they must log in to MAX or CXone Agent at least once. After completing this step, they will automatically be listed in the correct filter.
Search for any agents within the assigned categories.
Assign or unassign agents from the skill individually or in bulk.
Activate or deactivate agents from the skill individually or in bulk.
Update the proficiency score for each agent. You cannot update proficiency scores in bulk.
Filter the assigned agents by their state.
Change the agent state for agents in the Available and Unavailable states.

Make sure you have the right permissions to view and edit skills.

Agents Tab

The Agents tab displays agent details. The agents you see in this tab depend on the user view assigned to you.

The Agents tab contains the following widgets:

Agent States: Displays the current state of your agents. Agent states can be Available, Working, Unavailable, and Logged out. Click any of these states to sort by the selected agent state. It doesn't include the current states of the chat bots.
Longest Duration: Displays the current longest duration of active contacts The communication with the customer, handled by agent or chat bot over a single channel. A contact may consist of multiple segments. A single channel can be any voice or digital DFO channel such as chat, SMS, and so on.. Click the widget to sort by the Duration column. The agent that has a contact with the longest contact duration appears at the top.

There is also a grid that displays agent details such as:

Agent name.
Agent's team name.
Agent's current state.
Agent's next state.
Agent's currently assigned Contact ID.
Contact duration.
Assigned contact's skills Used to automate delivery of interactions based on agent skills, abilities, and knowledge and associated campaign.
Real-time overall customer sentiment (if you have a Real-Time Interaction Guidance license).

When you click a row in the grid, a panel appears to the right. The agent's details are displayed in the different tabs. Click icons in the panel to switch tabs.

Activity: Shows agent's state activities and contact information in the State tab and Contact tab respectively. You can also copy the contact details.

By default, the State tab shows agent activities for the last 24 hours.

How to view historic agent activities?

Click View Activity Log to see historic agent state activities by selecting the required time period. You can also select another agent from the list. You can view activity details for up to 31 days at a time.

You can print or export the data as a CSV file. Remember that you cannot print the data when the number of activities exceeds 200. In this case, use the Export as CSV option to export the data and then print the data from the CSV file.

You can play back the recording (for voice activity) or view the transcript (for Digital Experience digital chats) to review the agent activity.

The Contacts tab shows the contacts handled by the agent and details such as start time and contact duration.

If the Hide Agent Activities permission is turned on, the Agent Activity tab will be hidden.

Contacts: Shows agent's currently assigned contacts and monitors the contacts.

Skills: Shows agent's skills and proficiency score. You can:
- Filter the skills list by categories: Assigned all, Assigned active, Assigned inactive, and Unassigned.
- Search any skills within the assigned categories.
- Assign or unassign skills for the agent individually or in bulk.
- Activate or deactivate skills for the agent individually or in bulk.
- Update the proficiency score. The changes are auto-saved. You cannot update proficiency scores in bulk.
Contact Handling: Shows contact handing settings such as agent's delivery mode, current capacity to manage workload, and the number of contacts an agent can handle in different channels A way for contacts to interact with agents or bots. A channel can be voice, email, chat, social media, and so on..
View Schedule: This tab is available only if you have CXone WFM license. Shows agents' daily schedules to know their current and upcoming activities for the day.

To see the agent schedule, you will have to enable the View permission under WFM > Scheduling > Schedule Manager.

Contacts Tab

The Contacts tab contains the following widgets:

Channels: Displays how the volume is distributed by channel A way for contacts to interact with agents or bots. A channel can be voice, email, chat, social media, and so on. for all your active contacts The communication with the customer, handled by agent or chat bot over a single channel. A contact may consist of multiple segments. A single channel can be any voice or digital DFO channel such as chat, SMS, and so on.. Click any of the channel names to sort by the selected channel. It doesn't include the volume of contacts handled by the chat bots in different channels.
Contact Handled: Displays the number of contacts actively being handled.
Longest Duration: Displays the current longest duration of all active contacts. Click the widget to sort the contacts by their duration. The contact with the longest contact duration appears at the top.

There is also a grid that displays contact details such as:

Contact channel, number, and contact ID.
Contact duration.
Contact skills, campaign A grouping of skills used to run reports., team, and agent name.
Contact state.
Real-time overall customer sentiment Overall mood or result of the interaction as determined by analysis of words, phrases, and context of the transcript. (if you have a Real-Time Interaction Guidance license).

When you click a row in the grid, a panel appears to the right. The contact's details are displayed in different tabs. Click icons in the panel to switch tabs.

Contact History: Shows all states of the active contact leading up to the current state that is assigned to an agent.
Real-Time Interaction Guidance: Shows the agent's behavioral scores for CSAT or sales effectiveness if your organization uses Real-Time Interaction Guidance and has a license for Behavior Guidance.

Monitor Agents and Contacts

From the Agents or Contacts tabs, you can monitor agents or contacts.

Mary is a supervisor at a contact center. She wants to monitor all activities of her agents to keep a check on their performance.

Using the Live Monitoring page in CXone Supervisor, Mary can monitor and interact with agents and view their performance in real time. She can discretely listen to their interaction and monitor their screen. She can also coach them while they are interacting with customers.

For any active contact, you can:

Monitor voice (only available for voice contacts)
Monitor chat (only available for Digital Experiencedigital Any channel, contact, or skill associated with Digital Experience. contacts)
Coach (whisper)
Join
Take over
Record (only available for voice contacts)

For any active agent, you can:

You can only see buttons for actions you have permission to use.