Event browser

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Business Analyst System Administrator

On the Data Health page, the Event browser (platform-ca | platform-eu | platform-au) tab enables you to monitor the performance and health of your data by tracking the latest events sent to the database. It’s especially useful for when you want to focus on specific validation criteria affecting your data health.

The Event browser only shows syntactic validation errors, meaning it looks for missing or incorrectly formatted information inside individual events. It won’t be able to detect errors associated to whole sessions or inconsistencies between events. For example, it won’t be possible to see if a click event is associated to a search event that doesn’t exist.

Event browser features

On the Data Health (platform-ca | platform-eu | platform-au) page, select the Event browser tab.

Event browser

Click any event listed in the browser.

You can:

1 Use the date picker to narrow down the events by period.

2 Filter events by selecting the checkboxes under Status, Event type, Search hub, and Event source.

3 Filter events by client ID or visit ID by clicking the filter icon next to the desired ID.

4 Remove an ID filter by clicking the X icon.

5 Expand an event that’s marked as Invalid for more details by clicking the arrow.

6 Assess the error code and reason for the invalid event.

7 Open the Visit Browser page containing that specific event by clicking Show in visit browser.

8 View the complete event content on a new dialog by clicking Show event content.

Event source vs Event type

The Event type section of the Event browser has a number of categories depending on the use case, such as detail, cartAdd, transaction, search, custom, and more.

The Event source section of the Event browser indicates where the event is originating from, such as Custom (UA) , View (UA), Search (UA), Click (UA), and Collect.

There’re high level of overlaps except for within the Collect event source which can contain event types such as detail, cartAdd, transaction, pageview. The Event source is the source of the event and helps refine what form the Event type takes. It’s a dimension that helps refine what form the Event type takes.

Note

When Event type is Search, you’ll see that the Event source is Search (UA). Similarly, for the Event type Click, Event source is Click (UA). However, when the Event type is detail or cartAdd, the Event source is Collect.

Required privileges

Privileges required to view the Event browser dashboard:

Action Service - Domain Required access level

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