Overview
The Live events page lets you monitor and inspect incoming user events on your website in real time (over a rolling 14-day window). Whether you’re troubleshooting experiment exposures or verifying conversions, this tool gives you instant visibility into what’s happening in your A/B testing setup. Accessible under Insights > Live events, this page displays events with key metadata and supports filtering, searching, and deep inspection through detailed event views.
- Project selector (dropdown)
- Event table: Displays timestamped logs with the following columns:
- Date and time
- Event type (for example, CONVERSION or EXPERIMENT)
- User ID
- Event properties (as raw JSON snippet)
- Refresh button: Manually update the list with the latest events
- Last update timestamp: Shows when the data was last fetched
Refreshing data
Click the Refresh button (top right) to manually reload data. Use it when you expect new events and want to force an update.
Filtering events
Use the filters sidebar to narrow the event list by time range or event type.Time range
Select a preset window or define a custom range:- Last hour
- Last 24 hours
- Last 7 days
- Custom: Click Click to choose a date, then select from three options:
- Fixed: Set a specific start and end date.
- Since: Show all events since a specific date.
- Last: Show events from the last N days, hours, or minutes.
Event type
Filter by one or more of the following event types:- Conversion
- Custom data
- Experiment
- Personalization
Use cases
- Debugging: Identify issues in real time by searching for user IDs or goal IDs.
- QA testing: Validate that experiments and conversions are firing correctly.
- Monitoring: Watch traffic as it happens during key campaigns or rollouts.
Live events is the right tool for confirming that an event fired. The Results page is visit-based and does not update in real time—a visit must end (30 minutes of inactivity) before data appears there. See Data collection and reporting for a full explanation.