Filter out own people (by IP or name) from monitoring
We have a lot of people in our company that use the website while building new features. I see all of these on the monitoring board which is noise when I want to see the real visitors.
I'd like to filter them out.
I'd suggest to filter them out either
- by using the IP address (which is proably the easiest)
or
- by name (everyone needs to enter a name and then I add them to a group 'own people' and then they are filtered out)

To All Our Valued Users, Thank you for choosing tawk.to and for sharing your challenge here. You may try the following suggestions to identify/limit your agents under the ‘Monitoring’ section: To identify whether the visitor is your actual user or your agent, you can follow the steps below: 1. Ask your agents to visit your website and initiate a test chat. 2. Join the test chat. 3. In the top right section of your active chat window, select the ‘Details’ section (tab). 4. Rename the long auto-generated IP Address to your agent's name. You can also add their email address. 5. Save all settings. The next time your agent visits your website, their name will now appear under the ‘Monitoring' section. You can ban the IP Addresses of all admin and agents. Once banned, the widget will be hidden and will not be visible in the monitoring section. Visit this link for more information: https://help.tawk.to/article/banning-a-visitor If you have any other questions, require assistance, or just want to talk to someone at tawk.to, here is our calendar link: https://calendly.com/tawk-to-support/tawk-to-customer-support. We're happy to help!
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Marymills commented
We want this too please https://www.gtaportal.org/
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Michael Fray commented
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pasterzop commented
If we use the ban feature. It blocks all of our users, even those who need to use the chat bot. Kindly find a way to make this work.
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Admintawk.to (top bird!, tawk.to) commented
Hi Mathias,
Thank you for choosing tawk.to and for sharing your challenge here.
You may try the following suggestions to identify/limit your agents under the ‘Monitoring’ section:To identify whether the visitor is your actual user or your agent, you can follow the steps below:
1. Ask your agents to visit your website and initiate a test chat.
2. Join the test chat.
3. In the top right section of your active chat window, select the ‘Details’ section (tab).
4. Rename the long auto-generated IP Address to your agent's name. You can also add their email address.
5. Save all settings.The next time your agent visits your website, their name will now appear under the ‘Monitoring' section.
You can ban the IP Addresses of all admin and agents. Once banned, the widget will be hidden and will not be visible in the monitoring section.
Visit this link for more information: https://help.tawk.to/article/banning-a-visitor
I hope these suggestions address your concern.
If you have any other questions, require assistance, or just want to talk to someone at tawk.to, here is a link to my calendar: https://calendly.com/siennarubio/30min. I'd be happy to help!
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Taco commented
so here's how I did it.
I wrapped the chatwidget code in this:
$.getJSON('https://api.ipify.org?format=jsonp&callback=?', function(data) {
if (data.ip !== '<Your IP>') {
[[TAWK-TO CODE]]
}
});This works for me to filter it
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Faizan Elahi Qureshi commented
This should have been a default option in any chat support software. It's simple to apply a filter.
Please add this feature. In the next update, the IP filter is the easiest to implement and most preferable.
If we use the ban feature. It blocks all of our users, even those who need to use the chat bot. Kindly find a way to make this work.
Thanks a lot for listening to our Suggestions. Please Apply them also.
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Anonymous commented
Yes this is sorely needed.
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JGT commented
Another simple fix, as metioned by Ahmet earlier, is the 'Ignore' button, BUT of course you need to have a PERMANENTLY IGNORE option. Doesn't sound so difficult.
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Nick Watts commented
Seriously guys? People have been asking for this for 5 years now, and there's still no progress?!
If you made it a premium feature then you'd have some good funding to develop this and other features people were asking for!
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Anonymous commented
We want this too please
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Kristin commented
We also would like to hide our own employees through their IP.
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Adam commented
Yes, we would also like to see a filtering option by IP
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Anonymous commented
In the context of WordPress, you could handle it at some level by making the script not appear for logged in users (or role-based triggers if you are running membership site). This can be done by using a plugin or custom code.
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Glen commented
This is a basic feature. Without it the monitoring stats are very misleading. www.emile-education.com
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Anonymous commented
still no fix for this?
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Anonymous commented
+1 for a way to filter yourself or your IP without a blanket ban. Maybe using cookies?
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Jennifer Travis commented
I agree, banning the IP isn't a great solution. We want to be able to filter the visitors