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title: Analytics
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# Analytics

## Overview{% #overview %}

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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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Event Analytics extends the Events Explorer page with views, data aggregation, and grouping capabilities for troubleshooting and monitoring. You can control:

- The query that filters the set of views to analyze.
- The dimensions over which to group data.
- The visualization method for aggregates and groups.

You can export analytics visualizations to create widgets in a dashboard or notebook.

### Build an analytics query{% #build-an-analytics-query %}

Use the query to control what's displayed in your Events Analytics:

1. Choose an attribute or tag to graph, and add it as a facet. Graphing a facet displays the unique count of the variable.
   {% image
      source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/service_management/events/explorer/facet-to-graph.b4805437388eee90bda52a8f8c4345a4.png?auto=format"
      alt="Shows the list of facets that can be graphed." /%}
1. Use a facet to group your graph by. You must add an attribute as a facet to be able to use it here.
   {% image
      source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/service_management/events/explorer/split-graph.d4fc3dd361e7a584942c59e3e0165f02.png?auto=format"
      alt="Shows the list of facets that you can group data by." /%}
1. Choose the time interval for your graph. Changing the global timeframe changes the list of available timestep values. You can display the results as a timeseries, table, or top list.
   {% image
      source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/service_management/events/explorer/time-interval.87ae11cb3525f70cdb558c665c56a2fe.png?auto=format"
      alt="Shows the list of possible time intervals, including the default, 5 seconds." /%}
1. Choose to display either the top or bottom values according to the selected measure.
   {% image
      source="https://datadog-docs.imgix.net/images/service_management/events/explorer/display-values.d3874f5611067654f32e77e1e66f2d0b.png?auto=format"
      alt="Choose to display the values from the top or from the bottom." /%}

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

- [Audit Trail](https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/audit_trail/)