Events explorer

Events is the raw stream: every event your sources sent, newest first. Use it to check what is really being tracked, find specific events, and see how widely a feature is used.

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When to use it

  • “Is Invoice paid firing, and with which properties?”
  • “How many people used export this week, and how often?”
  • “Show me every click on the Upgrade button yesterday.”

Query events

  1. Open Events under Data.
  2. Under Select event, keep All events or pick one.
  3. Click Add next to where to filter by a property. It works like the report filter builder, with the same operators.
  4. Set the date range, source, segment and Compare in the filter bar.

Hide filter folds the query builder away when you want more room for the table.

Feature adoption

Once you pick an event, Feature adoption appears above the table. It charts Occurrences, Unique people and Uses per person, grouped by Day or Week, with changes against the previous period. Break down by splits it by a property and shows the top 10 values. Click a bar or a row to see those events.

The table

  • Columns are the event, up to three property columns you choose with Edit columns, the person and the time.
  • Hover a person to see a card with their events, sessions and when they were last seen. Press P or click to open them.
  • Click a row to expand it. Tabs show Your properties, ClickClacks properties (what the tracker adds) and JSON. Buttons take you to View session, View profile or Filter by this event.
  • Click a property value to filter to it, see the people with it, or copy it.
  • Search this page filters only the 50 rows on screen. For everything, use the query builder.

Live tail

Click Live tail to add new events to the top as they arrive, following your filters. The button reads Live while it is connected. It keeps the newest 50. For a full live view with who is on your site, use Realtime.

Save, share and export

  • Save view › Copy link copies a link with your event, filters and columns.
  • Save view › Add to board puts an event table on a board.
  • Export downloads the matching events as a CSV, using the current filters.

Keyboard shortcuts

KeyWhat it does
J / KMove through rows
EnterExpand or collapse the row
POpen the person
/Focus search
FAdd a condition
?Show keyboard shortcuts
EscClose the top layer

Tips and gotchas

  • New events appear within seconds of being sent.
  • No match? When nothing matches an event name, the page suggests the closest event names you do send. A typo such as Signed Up against Signed up is common.
  • Widen to 12 months when looking for a rare event.

Recipes

Is my new event firing with the right properties?

  1. Pick the event under Select event and set the dates to Today.
  2. Expand a row and read Your properties.
  3. Turn on Live tail and trigger the event again to watch it arrive.

How widely is the export feature used?

  1. Pick Export created and set the dates to Last 30 days.
  2. Read Feature adoption: unique people and uses per person, week by week.
  3. Choose Break down by and a property the event carries, such as plan, to see who uses it most.

Every click on the Upgrade button yesterday.

  1. Pick the click event ($click) and set the dates to Yesterday.
  2. Add a filter: Clicked text contains Upgrade.
  3. Click Edit columns and add Page.

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