When to use User Sessions
Use User Sessions when you want to:- Reconstruct the steps a specific user took before a problem or conversion
- Verify that events and properties are being sent correctly
- Understand edge cases that aggregate charts can hide
Explore a session
1
Search for a user
Find the user by user ID, email, or another identifying property.
2
Select a session
Review the list of sessions for that user, ordered by time. Each session represents a contiguous period of activity.
3
Inspect the event stream
Walk through the events in chronological order. Expand any event to see its full property payload.
4
Filter by event or property
Narrow the stream to a specific event name or property value to focus on the actions that matter.
Save and share
Save a filtered session view or a user query so you can return to it later. Pin session summaries to dashboards as widgets so your team can monitor patterns such as average events per session or sessions with specific events. You can also set alerts on a session widget to be notified when a qualifying session pattern is detected.Next steps
- User Flows to see aggregate paths across all users
- Engagement Matrix to segment users by engagement depth