Event Relationships

Event-related components relate to the reporting capabilities of the Report Builder. Each event is defined by the trigger, the condition, the action, and values and dimensions to record.

Values can be a count, a numeric value, or a text string.

• Numeric values that are associated with the events can be graphed in the Report Builder.
• The text values can be used as instances of a dimension.

Based on when evaluation of an event occurs, conditions can depend on different data objects. Since some events are contingent upon various combinations of hit attributes or other events, the Event Manager provides for various combinations of conditions.

In practice, almost all conditions are based on a text pattern that appears in the data stream.

Session attributes: In addition to managing events, hit attributes, and dimensions, the Event Manager also enables configuration of session attributes that can be read and set by events, which are used in alerts fired based on events, and tracking of major movers (deviations).

A session attribute is similar to a custom session attribute or UserDef (user-defined variable) in earlier Discover versions. Session attributes are used to save interesting session state information with the session for later conditions or reporting.