Product
What your Salesforce Lightning apps aren’t showing you—yet.
By Kartik Chandrayana
Aug 5, 2025

7 min read
You’ve poured time, talent, and a serious amount of money into Salesforce Lightning. Custom workflows. Internal tools. Customer facing apps. Experiences designed to empower your teams and customers.
But I’m going to be blunt: if you can’t see what’s actually happening in those tools—what users are clicking, where they’re getting stuck, how long it really takes to complete a workflow—you’re flying blind. And that means your investment is bleeding value, slowly and quietly, every day.
How do we get true visibility into every click, every user journey, every funnel inside Salesforce Lightning?
It’s the kind of insight we take for granted in web or native apps. Funnels, heatmaps, drop-offs—product teams live in that data. But Salesforce Lightning apps? Most teams are guessing. And I’ve seen how painful that is.
In fact, these are a few of the common questions I hear from digital leaders struggling to measure the ROI of these app investments.
“Is my Salesforce Lightning investment paying off?”
This is the story I hear on repeat.
Salesforce has become a digital backbone, especially for operations like sales, support, and service. But once workflows go live, most teams lose visibility. They don’t know how users are interacting with these tools, where they might be dropping off, experiencing digital friction, or if new features are making an impact.
You see support tickets pile up. You hear complaints. You feel the drag. But you can’t pinpoint why it’s happening. So you rely on assumptions, spend hours chasing root causes, or wait until the next quarter to address feedback that’s already months old.
“What is the impact of issues raised in Lightning apps?”
This isn’t about a few slow-loading screens or minor inefficiencies. It’s about the silent friction that adds up across your user base.
Users raise issues. They report bugs. They share what’s slowing them down. But those signals often get brushed off, not because they don’t matter, but because they’re hard to measure. What does “this takes too long” actually mean? Is it 10 seconds longer, or 3 minutes longer, across 5,000 people per day?
For example, a telco provider switched their contact center app from a home grown solution to Salesforce Lightning app. They realized that activating four lines of new phones took almost double the time in Lightning (over their homegrown solution). What gives? Where were their agents getting stuck? How do they quickly discover which steps of activation funnels are taking more time?
Without data to back the pain, it becomes anecdotal, and anecdotal falls flat.
Meanwhile, frustration grows. Productivity drops. Workarounds multiply. And eventually, the customer feels the downstream impact.
“What are my Lightning App blind spots?”
Ask yourself:
- Where exactly are users stuck or struggling in Salesforce Lightning?
- How long do critical workflows really take to complete?
- Are new features being adopted and used as intended, or ignored?
- What’s driving spikes in support tickets, and can you trace it to the source?
If you can’t confidently answer these, you’re operating with blind spots that are quietly costing you time, budget, and trust.
Most orgs have basic dashboards or error logs, but what they don’t have is the behavioral visibility to show where and why things break down.
You can’t fix what you can’t see. And when you're managing a platform as complex and business-critical as Salesforce, that lack of visibility becomes a liability.
How full visibility transforms your Salesforce Lightning apps.
Dashboards show you what happened, but they can’t show you why. They can’t capture the human context—the hesitations, the frustration, the workarounds—that reveal what’s actually broken, or how to fix it.
Teams are left piecing things together from scattered clues: vague support tickets, bugs that engineers can’t replicate, and feature actions driven by gut instinct, not data. Meanwhile, user frustration builds quietly, and no one can quite explain why productivity is lagging or customer service is slipping.
But, when you gain visibility into how your tools are actually used, everything changes.
Quantum Metric is the first platform which provides this unique visibility – from session replays to heatmaps, product analytics data sets, funnel visibility and more. Suddenly, you can move from delayed guesswork to certainty. Session replays reveal exactly where tasks stall or break down. It's the visible truth and helps you see why users are getting stuck or completing their tasks. Funnels highlight drop-offs and dead ends; heatmaps show what users try to interact with and what they ignore.
Plus, you get the biggest benefit of the Quantum Metric platform, quantification. Not only can we highlight (and visualize) the digital friction, with one click we can show you how many other users are experiencing the same issue. With this quantification, you can finally prioritize fixes based on real friction, not just the loudest complaints.
What once caused confusion now drives clarity—intuitive, efficient, and trusted. And when users work smarter, customers feel the difference.
Real stories from teams who figured it out.
Clarity isn’t just theoretical. For example, we’ve seen a global bank that invested $11 million into a custom lending workflow in Salesforce Lightning. They didn’t know how or if employees were using it until Quantum Metric revealed critical friction points and drop-offs that had been hiding in plain sight.
After just weeks of iteration, the bank transformed the experience, boosting efficiency, adoption, and employee trust.
A telco provider saw agent workflow times drop by 66%, just by identifying unnecessary steps buried inside Lightning flows.
A recruiting firm with 12,000+ Salesforce users used Quantum Metric to uncover onboarding drop-offs and increase task completion with a single design change.
These aren’t edge cases. They’re examples of what happens when you finally see the full picture.
You’ve already made the investment. Now it’s time to make it count.
Your Salesforce Lightning apps are live. Your teams are using them. Your business depends on them.
Now it’s time to understand them.
Quantum Metric’s Salesforce Lightning Analytics gives you the insight to fix issues fast, improve adoption, reduce friction, and protect your investment. When you’re ready to see how it works firsthand, I invite you to check out the demo to learn more.
This isn’t just about better analytics. It’s about building empathy into your internal tools, and enabling your people to do their best work, every day.
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