| **{overview}**[Overview](#overview-section) | View your GitLab [Dashboard](#admin-dashboard), and administer [projects](#administering-projects), [users](#administering-users), [groups](#administering-groups), [jobs](#administering-jobs), [runners](#administering-runners), and [Gitaly servers](#administering-gitaly-servers). |
| **{overview}**[Overview](#overview-section) | View your GitLab [Dashboard](#admin-area-dashboard), and administer [projects](#administering-projects), [users](#administering-users), [groups](#administering-groups), [jobs](#administering-jobs), [runners](#administering-runners), and [Gitaly servers](#administering-gitaly-servers). |
| **{monitor}** Monitoring | View GitLab [system information](#system-information), and information on [background jobs](#background-jobs), [logs](#logs), [health checks](monitoring/health_check.md), [requests profiles](#requests-profiles), and [audit events](#audit-events). |
| **{monitor}** Monitoring | View GitLab [system information](#system-information), and information on [background jobs](#background-jobs), [logs](#logs), [health checks](monitoring/health_check.md), [requests profiles](#requests-profiles), and [audit events](#audit-events). |
| **{messages}** Messages | Send and manage [broadcast messages](broadcast_messages.md) for your users. |
| **{messages}** Messages | Send and manage [broadcast messages](broadcast_messages.md) for your users. |
| **{hook}** System Hooks | Configure [system hooks](../../system_hooks/system_hooks.md) for many events. |
| **{hook}** System Hooks | Configure [system hooks](../../system_hooks/system_hooks.md) for many events. |
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| **{settings}** Settings | Modify the [settings](settings/index.md) for your GitLab instance. |
| **{settings}** Settings | Modify the [settings](settings/index.md) for your GitLab instance. |
## Admin Dashboard
## Admin Area dashboard
The Dashboard provides statistics and system information about the GitLab instance.
The Dashboard provides statistics and system information about the GitLab instance.
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#### User impersonation
#### User impersonation
An administrator can "impersonate" any other user, including other administrator users.
An administrator can "impersonate" any other user, including other administrators.
This allows the administrator to "see what the user sees," and take actions on behalf of the user.
This allows the administrator to "see what the user sees," and take actions on behalf of the user.
You can impersonate a user in the following ways:
You can impersonate a user in the following ways:
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### Logs
### Logs
Since GitLab 13.0, **Log** view has been removed from the admin dashboard since the logging does not work in multi-node setups and could cause confusion for administrators by displaying partial information.
Since GitLab 13.0, **Log** view has been removed from the Admin Area dashboard since the logging does not work in multi-node setups and could cause confusion for administrators by displaying partial information.
For multi-node systems we recommend ingesting the logs into services like Elasticsearch and Splunk.
For multi-node systems we recommend ingesting the logs into services like Elasticsearch and Splunk.