Verify events are arriving

Confirm ingestion with the live stream and hourly volume chart.

After you instrument an event, you need to confirm that it's actually reaching the system. The live stream and volume chart let you watch events flow in real time and spot problems before they affect your data.

This is your first line of defense: if events aren't arriving, nothing downstream will work.

1

In Events, open the instrumented event.

In Events, open the event you just instrumented.

This is where you'll see the raw event stream for the event you just set up.

2

The live stream shows raw events as they arrive; trigger the action to see it here.

The live stream shows raw events as they arrive — trigger the action in your product and watch it appear here.

 

If the event doesn't appear within a few seconds, check your track call syntax and make sure the event name matches exactly.

 

3

The hourly volume chart confirms steady ingestion; a sudden drop usually means a deploy broke the track call.

The hourly volume chart confirms steady ingestion — a sudden drop usually means a deploy broke the track call.

 

If you see a sudden drop in volume after a deploy, that's usually a sign the track call broke or the event name changed.

 

What's next

Once you've confirmed events are arriving, you can start analyzing them to understand user behavior and build segments based on those events.