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Improving PD onboarding flow

Open gastoner opened this issue 4 months ago • 2 comments

Is your enhancement related to a problem? Please describe

We want to be sure that user sees only important info (not being annoying) and during his startup within ~ 3 or 5 minutes

Describe the solution you'd like

Add telemetry that would track how long it takes for a user to start their first container

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

gastoner avatar Aug 20 '25 05:08 gastoner

@gastoner so we do have telemetry for this flow; it takes them a median time of 43m 9s from the moment they finish Onboarding till startContainer action. Judging by the actions users take, the majority don't go right away to container creation - they first explore the application, starting from the dashboard and going tab by tab. I.e Home/Pods, Home/Images, etc. Around 20% eventually end up starting the container.

I think this time and number can be improved by:

  • introducing new design elements to the onboarding process and right after. Such as, suggestions to start their first container; sample container flows or app walkthroughs.

cc @jiridostal @Firewall

MariaLeonova avatar Dec 10 '25 12:12 MariaLeonova

Thank you for looking into this @MariaLeonova new design/ adding new steps would be great idea I think

gastoner avatar Dec 10 '25 14:12 gastoner