We’re thrilled to introduce Event Explorer, a powerful tool to track, verify, and investigate events sent to LaunchDarkly. It simplifies metric creation and tracking while providing greater visibility into your event data.
Why you’ll love Event Explorer
If you’ve ever struggled to verify the metric events you send to LaunchDarkly, you’re not alone. Ensuring that your tracking code is correct and identifying the right events for defining metrics hasn’t always been easy. Live Events has been a powerful real-time tool for debugging tracking code during development; however, it comes with limitations. While it allows you to view events as they occur in real time, it doesn’t provide access to historical data. This can make it challenging for users to analyze past events and make informed decisions after the fact.
That’s where Event Explorer comes in. It provides:
- Simpler event discovery: Gain full visibility into event data sent to LaunchDarkly, including last-seen timestamps and 14-day activity trends, reducing the need to use the transient Live Events view.
- Rich contextual insights: Easily distinguish between active, inactive, or similarly-named events with detailed origin information to confidently select the right one(s) for your metrics.
- Faster metric management: Quickly view linked metrics or create new ones with intuitive shortcuts, simplifying setup and tracking.
Live Events is not going away. It will continue to serve as your reliable tool for real-time debugging, while Event Explorer offers additional robust historical insights and enhanced analytics into your data.
What can you do with Event Explorer?
With Event Explorer, you’ll get a comprehensive view of the events sent to LaunchDarkly over the past 90 days. Additionally, you can:
Search and identify events quickly with instant, typo-forgiving search functionality.
Monitor event trends and origins: Check activity to ensure events are firing as expected and trace their origin, including SDKs and environments.
Filter by environment to analyze event activity specific to your needs.
View linked metrics or create new ones with convenient shortcuts.
With these features, Event Explorer gives you better visibility into the data you’re sending to LaunchDarkly and greater confidence in the metrics you create.
Get started and learn more
Event Explorer is available to all customers on all plan types. Check out the public documentation or try the tool directly in your LaunchDarkly dashboard. Let us know what you think!
