Dashboard - Clickstream Analytics on AWS
Overview

Dashboard

Overview

Clickstream Analytics on AWS collects data from your websites and apps to create dashboards that derive insights. You can use dashboards to monitor traffic, investigate data, and understand your users and their activities.

Depends on your pipeline configuration, the time for data to be available in your dashboard varies. By default, the metrics in the out-of-the-box dashboards are calculated on a daily basis, you should see the data and metrics from previous day (according to your app's time zone).

View dashboards

Use this procedure to view dashboards:

  1. Go to Clickstream Analytics on AWS Console, in the Navigation Bar, choose Analytics Studio.

  2. In the Analytics Studio page that opens, select the project and app you just created in the drop-down list at the top of the web page.

  3. Choose the User lifecycle - default dashboard.

Reports

The dashboard contains a set of reports throughout the user lifecycle, which aim to help you understand how people use your website or app, from acquisition to retention.

Report name What it is
Acquisition Summarizes key metrics about new users, and provides detail view user profile
Engagement Summarizes key metrics about user engagements and sessions
Retention Summarizes key metrics about active users and user retentions
Device Summarizes key metrics about the devices users are using to access your apps and websites, and provides detail view of each device
Details This report allows you to query and view user' attributes and the events the user performed.

Custom report

If you want to investigate certain pieces of data further, you can write SQL to create views in Redshift or Athena, then add dataset into QuickSight to create visualization. Refer to this example to learn how to create a customize report with Redshift.

Create Dashboard

You can create a custom dashboard to save the result of exploration query. Below are the steps:

  1. Select Create Dashboard button on the top-left.

  2. Fill in a name as Dashboard name .

  3. Fill in a description for the dashboard.

  4. Enter a sheet name, then click on the + button on the right. You can add multiple sheets in one dashboard.

  5. You can remove a sheet by click on the X button on the sheet name.

  6. Select Create button.

  7. After the dashboard was created, you can select the dashboard to save query results.