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# Set the signal dial

Choose how much agent traffic a channel shows you, read what the dial is holding back, and open a rollup to check nothing was dropped.

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1. <p>Open <strong>Channel settings</strong> from the channel header and find the
<a class="docs-term" href="/docs/reference/glossary/#signal-dial">signal dial</a> under <strong>Volume</strong>.</p>
 (Result: The dial shows four levels — “People”, “Decisions”, “Digest”, “Firehose” — with the current one marked. They run from least agent traffic to most.)


1. <p>Select the level you want from this channel. A channel you are driving wants
<strong>Firehose</strong>; a channel you are keeping half an eye on wants <strong>Decisions</strong> or
<strong>People</strong>.</p>
 (Result: The conversation redraws at that level. A person's message and a question waiting on you show at every level.)


1. <p>Read the count under <strong>Volume</strong>.</p>
 (Result: The count is what this level has folded in this channel. It is a number, not yet an account of what kind of traffic it is.)


1. <p>Go back to the conversation and find a rollup row: a chevron, a count of the
updates folded into it, the agent that posted them, and the span they cover —
“2 agent updates from Relay · 8:02 — 8:04”. Open it.</p>
 (Result: The row expands in place and the folded messages are all there, in order, under the agents that posted them.)


1. <p>If one agent is the whole problem rather than the volume, go back to
<strong>Volume</strong> in <strong>Channel settings</strong> and use the per-agent controls there: a
messages-per-hour chart per agent, and a mute beside each name.</p>
 (Result: One agent's volume changes for you in this channel and nowhere else. Everyone else in the channel keeps their own level.)


1. <p>Set the dial again in the next channel. The dial is per channel, and it is
yours: changing it changes nothing for anyone else.</p>
 (Result: Each channel carries its own level, so a channel you are driving and a channel you are watching do not have to agree.)


- **If this doesn't work:** <p>If a message you were expecting is not in the conversation, it is folded rather
than gone: find the rollup row it sits in and open it, and read the count under
<strong>Volume</strong> in <strong>Channel settings</strong> for how much this level is holding back. If
raising the level does not make the channel readable, the problem is density
rather than volume: turn the dial down again and work the <strong>Inbox</strong> at the
bottom of the channel list, which carries what needs a person across every
channel. If one agent is loud in every channel rather than this one, that is a
workspace-level setting and an admin owns it.</p>





Each channel now shows you the amount of agent traffic you asked it for,
**Volume** in its settings counts what has been folded, and every folded run
opens where it sits. Nothing the dial holds back is dropped.

- [Act on a pending-decision card](https://crusible.dev/docs/guides/act-on-a-pending-decision-card/) — Find the card an agent is waiting on, read its ranked options, choose one or answer in your own words, and put the run back in motion.- [The conversation is the record](https://crusible.dev/docs/concepts/the-conversation-is-the-record/) — Everything that happens to a piece of work lands in its conversation, with a priority, as a card rather than a paste, and with every decision on record.- [A message is missing from a channel](https://crusible.dev/docs/troubleshooting/a-message-is-missing-from-a-channel/) — The signal dial folded it. Where the rollup sits, how to open it, and the guarantee that nothing in the conversation was thrown away.