Get started as Confluence Cloud administrator

If you're just starting out as Confluence administrator, this page is for you. You'll find this page useful if your Confluence site is brand new, or if you're learning to administer an existing site.

Learn more about site administration and user management.

How to administer and configure Confluence

To administer Confluence, you have access to the Confluence administration console. To access it, open your Confluence URL and choose (Settings) in the Confluence navigation.

Getting started on a new Confluence site

Is this a new Confluence site? Here are some things to get started with:

• Decide whether you want to allow public (anonymous) access to your site. 

• Add a space and some content.

• Invite some users to your site.

Now you can continue getting to know your site.

Getting to know an existing Confluence site

Has the site been around a while, but you're new to Confluence administration? Take a look at these topics:

• Understand the Confluence permission scheme.

• Get to know the power of add-ons for extending and customizing your Confluence site.

• Investigate more ways of customizing Confluence.