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title: About Coveo for Salesforce usage analytics
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# About Coveo for Salesforce usage analytics
By installing Coveo for Salesforce, you have access to your own [Coveo organization](https://docs.coveo.com/en/185/), where you can access the usage analytics coming from your Coveo components.

Coveo components send [events](https://docs.coveo.com/en/260/) to the [Coveo Analytics](https://docs.coveo.com/en/182/) service so that you can track what end users do with your search components.

## Accessing usage analytics reports

You can review your usage analytics data by accessing your [Coveo](https://platform.cloud.coveo.com/) ([platform-ca](https://platform-ca.cloud.coveo.com/) | [platform-eu](https://platform-eu.cloud.coveo.com/) | [platform-au](https://platform-au.cloud.coveo.com/)) organization.

In the **Analytics** section, select:

- **Reports**: For an overview of all your analytics, in graph and chart form (see [Usage analytics reports](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1674/)).

- **Data Health**: To monitor and measure your organization data integrity (see [Review data health](https://docs.coveo.com/en/m44f6381/)).

- **Visit Browser**: For a detailed description of all events for each [visit](https://docs.coveo.com/en/271/) (see [Review user visits with the Visit Browser](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1964/)).

- **Raw Data**: To view and export usage analytics data such as clicks, groups, keywords, searches, and custom events (see [Manage raw data](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1856/)).

- **Dimensions**: To define [dimensions](https://docs.coveo.com/en/258/) on custom [metadata](https://docs.coveo.com/en/218/) (see [Manage dimensions on custom metadata](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1522/)).

- **Named Filters**: To create sets of filters that you can use on many reports (see [Manage named filters](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1990/)).

- **Permission Filters**:  To create [permission filters](https://docs.coveo.com/en/265/) to restrict data access in reports (see [Manage permission filters](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1917/)).

For more information on how to navigate and understand Coveo UA, see [Coveo Usage Analytics overview](https://docs.coveo.com/en/l3bf0598/).

## About usage analytics events

A _usage analytics event_ is any user interaction with a search interface, including but not limited to search, click, and custom events (see [Usage analytics events](https://docs.coveo.com/en/2949/)).

The act of recording a search event relies on two elements: the **Cause** and the **Dimension**.

- A **Cause** has a name and a type.
It's itself a dimension.

An example of a cause would be `interfaceLoad` or `facetSelect`.

- A **Dimension** is a grouping of metadata key-value pairs principally exploited within the Coveo UA reports.

For examples of dimensions, see [Usage analytics dimensions](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1904/).

## Sending custom events

To learn how to send custom usage analytics events, see:

* [Add custom context to the Hosted Insight Panel](https://docs.coveo.com/en/o28a0498/).

* [Add custom context to the Console Hosted Search Page component](https://docs.coveo.com/en/p1td9000/).

* [Add custom context to the Community Hosted Search Page component](https://docs.coveo.com/en/p1ua0330/).

* [Send context information in Salesforce Lightning](https://docs.coveo.com/en/3290/).