BI Reporting: Call Volumes by Day Report

Mark

Updated September 11, 2026 23:00

Dialpad's 'Call Volumes by Day' report provides a detailed view into your contact center's call volume patterns. With an easy-to-understand heatmap format, you can easily identify anomalous days where call volumes spiked, spot unusual trends, and clearly see seasonality patterns.

Let's get into the details of this report.

Who can use this

You must be a Company Admin or have Analytics-specific permissions to use the Dialpad Business Intelligence (BI) add-on. Refer to our Pricing Page to see if you have access to this feature. If you have any questions about your plan, reach out to your Customer Success Manager or Dialpad Customer Care.

Default Filters

This report contains 2 default filters:

Calls is Entry Point Call
Calls Start Time

Visualization Type

The 'Call Volumes by Day' Report is a templated report displayed in a heatmap format.

Hover over any given day to view the total number of calls, and the exact date.

Displayed details when hovering over the heatmap report

Click the day to view a pop-up of the call records — call duration, start time, disposition, and call summary — without having to leave the page.

Report details with an option to download the report

Select 'Download' to instantly save your data to your computer, with multiple formatting and selection options.

While the 'Call Volumes by Day' heatmap is powerful on its own, when leveraged together with the 'Call Volume by Hour and Day of Week' you can see exactly when the influx of calls occurred.

Data Dictionary and Refresh Rates

This report contains unique Analytics definitions — read through the following table to learn more about the data in your report, and how soon it comes available after a call.

Columns	Description	Availability after Call
Call ID	A unique call ID for every call. A new call ID is generated when a call is transferred. Entry point calls and user calls also have unique call IDs	5 Minutes
Target ID	Unique ID automatically assigned to the Office, Department, user, or group.	5 Minutes
Target Kind	Indicates whether the target was an Office (Main Line), Department, Call Center, Router, room, or user. Unconnected outbound group calls may not be all accounted for when filtering by this field. Use Call Target: Target Kind to ensure all are counted.	5 Minutes
Category List	A list of tags used to classify a call's outcome - answered, placed, missed, abandoned, etc.	5 Minutes
Internal Endpoint	The phone number of the Dialpad user or group who owns this call. Note: Users without an assigned number will be given a fake number starting with 803 for routing purposes. If a group line has no number, then this field will default to showing the office's mainline number.	5 Minutes
External Endpoint	The phone number of the external party contacted for this call.	5 Minutes
Start Time	The date and time that a call is received by the Dialpad system.	5 Minutes
Connected Duration	Length of time the call was connected. This is based on the connected and end dates of the call.	5 Minutes
Duration	Time from when the call was created to the time it ended.	5 Minutes
Disposition List	Comma separated list of descriptive labels applied to the call by an operator. For aggregating on individual dispositions, use the Disposition dimensions.	5 Minutes
View Call Summary	Link to this call's summary page on Dialpad. Recording availability and permissions will apply when opening.	5 Minutes

Note

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BI Reporting: Call Volumes by Day Report

Default Filters

Visualization Type

Data Dictionary and Refresh Rates

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