Creating insights

Insights are the main building blocks of product analytics.

They enable you visualize your events and actions and analyze how people use your products.

Types of insight

Trends

Trends enable you to track how metrics change over time and use formulas to create custom metrics.

Funnels

Use funnels to understand conversion between steps, identify possible causes of success or failure, and track how conversion changes over time.

Retention

Retention insights enable you to see how often users return and compare retention for between cohorts.

User Paths

Users paths help you understand how users navigate your app or website, where they get stuck, or why they aren't discovering new features.

Stickiness

Use stickiness insights to analyze how deeply users are engaging with your product, identify your most engaged users, and which features drive the most engagement.

Lifecycle

Lifecycle insights are helpful for checking your product's health by breaking users down by new, returning, resurrecting, and dormant.

SQL

Use SQL insights to create custom tables based on your data using SQL.

How to create an insight

To create a new insight, navigate to the product analytics tab and click New. You can also select the type of insight you'd like to create from the dropdown.

You can then customize the insight and save it. You can change the type of insight you're creating by clicking on the tabs at the top.

Other ways to create new insights

1. By clicking the "+" symbol next to "Product analytics" in the sidebar.

2. By clicking "Add insight" in the top right of any dashboard. Insights you create this way are automatically added to the dashboard.

3. Inside any notebook. Insights created in a Notebook aren't saved to 'Your Insights' automatically – see our Notebook docs for more.

4. Using Terraform to manage insights as infrastructure-as-code.

Copying insights to another project

You can copy a saved insight to another project in the same organization. This option shows only when your organization has more than one project.

1. Open the insight you want to copy.
2. Open the actions sidebar.
3. Click Copy to another project.
4. Select the destination project.
5. For each dependency, such as an action or a cohort, choose to create a new copy or to use an existing resource in the destination project.
6. Click Copy.

A few things to keep in mind:

• The original insight does not change.
• The copy is independent. Changes to the original do not sync to the copy, and changes to the copy do not sync to the original.
• The copy is not added to a dashboard. To copy an insight together with its dashboard, copy the dashboard.