Getting started

Everything you need to add StatusTrail to a board and read your first report.

1. Install

1. Click , choose the account to install it on, and authorize. StatusTrail requests a single permission: read your boards' data. It never changes anything on your boards.

2. Add the view to a board

1. Open any board with a Status (color) column.
2. Next to the board's view tabs, click + Add view.
3. Choose Time in Status.

3. Read your first report

1. Pick the status column(s) you want to measure, and a range — 7d, 30d, 90d or All.
2. StatusTrail shows, for each item, how long it spent in each status, its current status, time in current status, cycle time and total — with an average and median row per status column.
3. Click any column header to sort (ascending, descending, or off). Click any duration cell to see the exact transition trail behind it.

1 Pick a status column to build your report

2 The report table: durations per status, per item

3 Click any column header to sort

4 Click any duration to audit it

Cycle time is measured from the first time an item enters Working on it to the first time it reaches Done. Boards using different status names for those stages will show – until custom cycle-time statuses ship.

Insight strip & filtering

Above each table, the insight strip shows the item count, median cycle time, and a live count chip for every status. Click a chip to filter the table to items currently in that status — in Grouped subitem mode, chips filter parent items only. A banner shows the active filter with a Clear control, and hovering a chip highlights its matching rows.

5 Click a status chip to filter the table

Columns & layout

Use the Columns menu to show or hide any status column or metric column. Turn on Compact for a denser table on big boards.

6 Show or hide any column

Subitems

Set the subitem mode to Off (parents only), Flat (subitems listed as their own rows), or Grouped (each parent shown with its subitems' status durations rolled up beneath it, including a Σ sum row per status). (Subitem analytics are part of the Business plan.)

Business hours Pro and Business plans

Turn on the Business hours toggle to count only working time. Set your work week, daily hours, holidays and timezone — StatusTrail handles weekends, holidays and daylight-saving changes for you.

7 Set your working week, hours and holidays

Exporting Pro and Business plans

Use Export CSV to download a durations table (numeric raw-seconds columns you can sum and pivot, plus human-readable durations) — available on Pro and Business. Business plan adds a raw transitions audit-trail log (every status change with ISO timestamps). Pick the scope:

• This view — exactly the columns, sort and filter currently on screen.
• Everything — every status column, full synced history, regardless of what's currently shown.

8 Export CSV: This view or Everything

Sync & caching

StatusTrail computes durations once and stores them in monday's own app storage. Reopening the view paints instantly from that cache — zero API calls. Press Sync to pull any activity since the last run; the button shows "Synced X ago" so you always know how fresh the report is.

How far back does it go?

StatusTrail reads the status-change history monday keeps for your plan (from one week on Basic up to five years on Enterprise) and then keeps building its own history in the cache from the day you install — so your reports get richer over time, and stay accurate even for changes older than monday's own retention window.

A note on accuracy

When StatusTrail can only see part of an item's history (for example, activity older than your monday plan retains), it marks affected durations — including summary and aggregate rows — with a ≥ sign — an honest lower bound, never a guess.

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