# The Platform console

The installation’s own console: every organization and person on it, its health, and its settings.

Platform admins open it from the menu at the bottom of the sidebar: **Platform**. It opens only for a session signed in with [two-factor](https://docs.gorunner.io/self-host/first-sign-in#turn-on-two-factor). The first admin is made at the first sign-in.

![The Platform sidebar: Overview, then Accounts, Installation, Settings and Embed.](https://docs.gorunner.io/img/self-host/platform-rail-light.jpg)

- **Overview**: What needs you, and how the installation is doing.
- **Organizations**, **People**: [Every account, its health and its limits](https://docs.gorunner.io/self-host/organizations-and-people)
- **Health**: [Services, queues and workers, live](https://docs.gorunner.io/self-host/health)
- **Audit log**: [Who did what, installation-wide](https://docs.gorunner.io/self-host/platform-audit-log)
- **General**: [The license](https://docs.gorunner.io/self-host/license), and limits for every account
- **OAuth apps**: [Google sign-in for connections](https://docs.gorunner.io/self-host/oauth-apps)
- **Monitoring**: [Your monitoring tools](https://docs.gorunner.io/self-host/monitoring-page)
- **Embed** pages: [Embed](https://docs.gorunner.io/embed/set-up), with a license that includes it

## Overview

A new installation shows **Get started**: add a license, invite a second platform admin, turn on two-factor. Once runs arrive, Overview shows:

- **Needs you**: Organizations failing, stuck, at a limit or behind in the queue, and license warnings, each with **Visit** or **Open**.
- **The installation**: **Production runs**, **Worked**, **Active people** and **New accounts**, against the period before, and **Runs a day**.
- **Three panels**: **Biggest changes** week on week, **New organizations** in 14 days, and **Admin activity**.

## Limits for every account

On **General**, under the License card. Each is a whole number, or empty for no limit; an organization’s own record can set its own.

- **Organizations a person may own**: Being invited into organizations is never limited.
- **Workspaces per organization**: Workspaces already there stay.
- **Runs at once per organization**: More than this wait in line and start in order.

## Two-factor codes

Every change in the console, Settings included, asks for your two-factor code and lands in the audit log. **History**, at the top of each settings page, shows that page’s changes.

- **One code, 10 minutes**: One code covers your changes for the next 10 minutes. The dialog sends it once the sixth digit is typed.
- **A code works once**: A code just used is refused: “This code was just used. Wait for the next code, then enter it.”
- **The license is the exception**: Loading a license on a new or paused installation asks for none. Replacing the license in force does.
- **Send test** asks for none: It changes nothing.

**Why can some admins only read?**

A platform admin may be given a pool of organizations rather than the whole installation. They see their pool, but can’t open **Health**, change settings, load a license, or suspend an organization. Those take an instance-wide platform admin.

**Can I use it on a phone?**

To read, yes. Settings change on a wider screen: “Change settings on a wider screen.”

## Related

- [Organizations and people](https://docs.gorunner.io/self-host/organizations-and-people): Find, limit, suspend and restore · 5 min
- [Visit an organization](https://docs.gorunner.io/self-host/visit-an-organization): See its work as its people do · 3 min
- [Your license](https://docs.gorunner.io/self-host/license): The License card on General · 4 min

Source: https://docs.gorunner.io/self-host/platform