Event Analytics

The Events explorer shows the custom events your site sends, ranked by how often they fire. Expand any event to see a breakdown of the properties recorded on it — the keys and values you passed, with a count for each. It’s how you turn event('purchase', { plan: 'pro' }) calls into answers about what people do.

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Which events appear in the list?

The main view lists each custom event by name with its total count, most frequent first. These are the events you send with event() — signup, purchase, newsletter_signup, and so on. Pageviews aren’t listed here; they have their own reports.

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How do I break an event down by property?

Expand an event to sample its properties. For each property key, you see the values that appeared and how many times — so purchase expands to show the split across plan values like pro and free, or billing values like monthly and annual. This is where event properties pay off: send the things that vary as properties, and break them down here.

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How do I read the Events page?

The Events page in your site’s sidebar is an activity explorer with three views — Explore, Trends, and Live — so you can search history, read aggregates, or watch events arrive. Live is the default: a real-time tail of matching events with an online indicator, pause/resume, and clear — watch events arrive the moment they’re tracked. Explore is a table of individual events, newest first, over your selected date range and filters. Trends keeps the trend chart: the Custom Events tab plots one line per event name and Event Types plots one line per event type, fixed at the 9 biggest. On the Custom Events tab, a Top select chooses how many event names to plot — 1, 3, 5, 8, or 10, defaulting to Top 5 — and a second select sets the bucket width: Hour, Day, Week, or Month, offering only the buckets your date range is wide enough to fill. Each line has a legend chip with its color, name, and total; click a chip to hide that series and read the rest without it. Hidden series reset whenever you switch tabs, change the Top count, or change the date range. Your search, filters, columns, and view all live in the page URL, so you can copy the address bar to share exactly what you see.

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How do I find specific events?

Explore searches and filters on the server, across your whole selected range — not just the rows already on screen.

• Search matches event names and types, page URLs, user IDs, and session IDs as you type (placeholder: “Search event, URL, user or session…”).
• Event type and Event name are searchable pickers fed by your event catalog, with counts and last-seen context; you can also type a name that hasn’t been seen yet. Selecting event names requires the Custom event type — if your type selection excludes it, the page offers a one-click Include Custom event rescue instead of running an empty query.
• Property adds typed filters over an event’s own properties — for example, plan equals pro, or amount greater than 100 — with operators that match the property’s type (text, number, or boolean). Keys and example values come from your catalog; free input is always allowed.

Every active constraint appears as a chip you can remove individually, and Reset clears the page’s search and filters without touching your date range. When nothing matches, the page says “No events match this query” with Clear search and Reset filters actions.

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How do I change which columns the table shows?

The Columns control shows, hides, and reorders columns — event, type, time, user, URL, device, country, referrer, channel, and more — and can add up to three property columns (for example, the plan property as its own column). Timestamp order switches the table between Newest first and Oldest first. Your column choices are remembered in the browser and travel in shared URLs.

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What can I see on one event?

Click any row to open a detail sheet with four tabs:

• Overview — the event’s type, time, user, page, referrer, device, and location at a glance.
• Properties — every property on the event, searchable, with copy actions and one-click filter equals / not equals on scalar values.
• Raw — the full event as JSON, ready to copy.
• Session — the session this event belongs to, with the event highlighted in the timeline.

The sheet header shows the Event ID, and Copy event link copies a URL that reopens this exact event — paste it in an issue or chat and a teammate lands on the same row. (Event IDs and their links exist for events received after this feature rolled out; older events paginate by timestamp instead.)

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How do I watch events as they happen?

Switch to the Live view to tail events as they arrive. Live polls only for events newer than the last one you received — it never re-downloads the whole list — and keeps at most 500 events on screen.

• When you’re at the top, new rows appear in place. When you’ve scrolled away or opened a detail sheet, a ” new events” pill collects arrivals; click it to jump to the top and flush them.
• Pause freezes the feed while you inspect a payload; Resume continues from where it stopped, without duplicates. Clear empties the on-screen list without losing your place.
• Polling suspends automatically while the browser tab is hidden and catches up when you return.
• If the connection hiccups, a “Live updates interrupted; retrying” banner appears while it backs off and retries. If the feed loses its place, the page offers Restart live feed rather than silently skipping events.

Live honors the same search, type, name, and property filters as Explore, so you can tail exactly the events you’re debugging.

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What does TinyAnalytics capture automatically?

Alongside the events you send, TinyAnalytics records interactions automatically — outbound link clicks, file downloads, button clicks, text copies, and form submissions. Each has its own type, so you can look at them separately from your custom events. See what the script tracks out of the box. Open the Autocapture dialog on the Events page to browse these by value: pick a type — outbound links, button clicks, form submissions, or copies — and see each distinct value with its count, its share of that type, and when it was last seen. It’s the fastest way to find the exact link or button text before building an autocapture goal or funnel on it.

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Common workflows

• Measure a key action. Send a custom event for it, then track its count over time in Trends.
• Debug an integration. Search the event name in Explore, filter to a property value, open the event, and check the Raw tab and its Session.
• Validate tracking live. Switch to Live, filter to the event you’re instrumenting, and watch it arrive as you click through your site.
• Compare variants. Break an event down by a property to compare plans, sources, or options.
• Share a finding. Copy the page URL — view, search, filters, and columns included — or copy an event link from its detail sheet.
• Turn events into goals and funnels. Once an event is firing, use it in Goals and Funnels.

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Frequently asked questions

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