How can I see who's watching my page if I'm not a space admin
Asked by Gary Mason:


Answers:
author: Peter Geshev
body: Hi Gary,

This feature is only available to Space Admins and Sys Admins

Regards,

Peter

comments: author: TomC
body: @Gary Mason Can you request being a space admin based on justifications you may have for your purpose(s)? We have about 200 spaces and quite a few of them have multiple space admins, not all of them are doing 'core space admin activity'.


author: Gary Mason
body: Thanks both. I thought I'd missed something but it seems not. I don't think I'll get space admin access anytime soon. I can't think of a reason why the owner of a page shouldn't be able to see who's watching it but it looks like a "feature" I'll have to live with.


author: TomC
body: It would be a good idea - I agree - to allow others to view who is watching a page. Currently the screen that comes up that allows one to view who is watching a page (and that space) also comes with the ability to add watchers to the page (and add watchers to a space too, in one of Confluence Server's recent updates). For now, those are privileges provided to the space admin, but an unbundling of 'view' and 'add' to allow any user to view watchers certainly seems apropos.

Some teams like the ability to be able to 'force-watch' users to ensure they are engaged in the content, so I think that is a good feature.


author: George Mogilevsky
body: as a workaround consider @mentions and tasks. but viewing watchers is a bit of a privacy breach. some people might not want regular users to see that they are watching. so i think it makes sense that only sys admins have that access. although for sys admins, I'd put that feature somewhere in the menu..


author: Khalid Darwish
body: Atlassian Jira Service desk allows users to add and see ticket watchers. Privacy?


author: Nuno Godinho
body: [@Khalid Darwish](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2024912) "Privacy": Indeed! Even if that was the case Atlassian should leave that decision in the admins hands. AT least give them the option to allow "regular" users to see who is watching their pages. Otherwise, they will feel they are talking to a wall.


author: Glyn John
body: Wow, this is awful ! There can be hidden / ghost people monitoring - spying - surveilling - receiving emails of my every update on a page, and I am not permitted to even know who they are ? (not even a count of how many watchers there are on the page)


author: Deanna Hardy
body: What I do is put the list of watchers into the actual content of the pages I author which I think works for explicit watchers of the page. I don't think it will show watchers of the space itself but at least people watching the page can be seen. I find it useful to know who is interested in the doc enough to watch it in the first place.

You can use the macro for contributors and select 'watches' from the list.


author: catherine button
body: This doesn't seem to be completely accurate. I am the space admin for my PERSONAL space in confluence and I still see nothing in space tools that looks like "Manage Watchers".

Shouldn't I be able to do that in my personal space?


author: Deanna Hardy
body: What I do is put the list of watchers into the actual content of the pages I author. I think works for explicit watchers of the page but not watchers of the space but it's better than nothing. I'm not worried too much about who might be snooping, I just find it useful to know who is interested in the doc enough to watch it in the first place and who is going to get update notifications.

You can use the macro for contributors and select 'watches' from the list.

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