# Your first dashboard view

Once your IdP and first connector are collecting, the Mesh dashboard becomes
your window into correlated identities and their risk.

## Two ways to see your data

Mesh has two dashboard modes, switched with the **Classic | Agentic** toggle
in the app header:

- **Classic** — the fixed dashboards this walkthrough uses. Start here: the
  views are predictable, and everything below applies.
- **Agentic** — describe the view you want and the Mesh agent composes a
  workspace of live widgets for you. Availability is per tenant during
  rollout. When you're comfortable with the basics, see
  [Generative UI](../user-guide/generative-ui.md).

## What you're looking at

- **Identities** — people and non-human identities correlated across your
  connected systems. Each identity aggregates the accounts and entitlements Mesh
  found for it.
- **Risk signals** — Mesh's risk engines flag conditions such as excessive
  access, stale accounts, weak authentication, and known breach exposure.
- **Severity** — signals are ranked (low, moderate, high, critical) so you can
  triage the most important items first.

## Orient yourself

1. Start on the overview to see the population of identities and the current
   risk distribution.
2. Filter by source system, department, or severity to narrow the view.
3. Open an identity to see its correlated accounts, entitlements, and the risk
   signals attached to it.

## Verify

- You can see identities from your IdP and connector.
- Risk signals are populated (this may take a collection cycle or two as engines
  run).

## Next step

Put it together by investigating a risky identity end to end:

➡️ [Investigate a risky identity](./investigate-risky-identity.md)