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title: Log view events
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# Log view events
> **Legacy feature**
>
> This article pertains to achieving relevance with the Coveo Hive framework.
> Coveo Hive is now in maintenance mode.
> 
> See [Achieve relevance](https://docs.coveo.com/en/n9qd0318/) for guidance on leveraging [Coveo Platform](https://docs.coveo.com/en/186/) relevance features with the Coveo Atomic library.

View events are logged each time a user visits a page.
This information is sent to the [Coveo Platform](https://docs.coveo.com/en/186/) Analytics service and provides data to [Coveo Machine Learning (Coveo ML)](https://docs.coveo.com/en/188/) for [content recommendations](https://docs.coveo.com/en/1016/) (see [Get content recommendations](https://docs.coveo.com/en/2303/)).
This page shows you how to configure your [**Coveo Page View Analytics**](https://docs.coveo.com/en/3013/) rendering to start logging view events.

## Step 1: Add the Page View Component to a Layout

The **Coveo Page View Analytics** rendering is a presentation item in Sitecore.
This means that you can add it to any placeholder or pass it as a reference in any MVC layout.

If the rendering is properly added, you should see a `view` event logged in your browser network console when you browse a published Sitecore page.

## Step 2: Edit the Component Options

If you want, you can edit the component options.

### Content Type

The **Coveo Page View Analytics** rendering has a **Content Type** option that's used to tag the current page to provide more specific information for the recommendations module.
This option should be used solely to filter recommendations using items matching a specific tag.
The values displayed for this option are stored in the **TagRepository** bucket, located under **Sitecore** >**Settings** >**Buckets** >**TagRepository**.
Insert a **Tag** in this bucket to use it afterward in this field.

### Add Metadata

You can also add metadata to the out-of-the-box metadata that the **Coveo Page View Analytics** rendering logs.

If the **Coveo User Context** component is added before the **Coveo Page View Analytics** component, the view events will contain this user context (see [Leverage User Context for Coveo Machine Learning](https://docs.coveo.com/en/2360/)).