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title: Events Explorer
description: Datadog, the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring.
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# Events Explorer

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Use the Events Explorer to aggregate and view events coming into Datadog. Group or filter events by attribute and graphically represent them with event analytics. Use the query syntax to filter events using Boolean and wildcard operators.

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The Events Explorer is not designed as a comprehensive audit tool. To track user activity, API requests, configuration changes, and resource modifications for auditing, compliance, or security use cases, use [Audit Trail](https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/audit_trail/).
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- [Searching](https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/explorer/searching)
- [Navigate the Explorer](https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/explorer/navigate)
- [Customization](https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/explorer/customization)
- [Facets](https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/explorer/facets)
- [Attributes](https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/explorer/attributes)
- [Send notifications](https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/explorer/notifications)
- [Analytics](https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/explorer/analytics)
- [Saved views](https://docs.datadoghq.com/events/explorer/saved_views)

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Datadog Events API](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/events/)
- [Troubleshoot faster with improved Datadog Events](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-events/)