Usage analytics

To understand who is accessing content or running queries in your Lightdash projects, we've built usage analytics to help you track this. There are two ways of understanding user activity:

1. Usage Analytics dashboards - these are dashboards created by Lightdash which give you an overview of your project's content and user activity.
2. Query tags - this is metadata which is added to your data warehouse queries and gives you information about who is querying data and what they are querying.

Usage analytics dashboards

Each project has usage analytics dashboards created by Lightdash giving you an overview of your project's content and user activity.

To see your usage analytics dashboards for a project, just click on the settings icon, project settings, then usage analytics.

Or you can also use our search bar to get direct access to the different analytics dashboards by typing the name of the dashboard (eg: User activity)

User Activity dashboard

This dashboard gives you an overview of the users in your project and the activity of your users.

Here's an overview of the fields used in the dashboard:

• Number of users: the total number of users that have access to the project.
• Number of viewers: the number of users with the viewer role that have access to the project.
• Number of editors: the number of users with the editor role that have access to the project.
• Number of admins: the number of users with the admin role that have access to the project.
• % of weekly querying users: the % of users which have run at least one query in the project in the last 7 days (out of all users in your project). Queries include viewing existing charts and dashboards.
• Number of weekly querying users: the number of users which have run at least one query in the project in the last 7 days.
• Weekly average number of queries per user: the rolling 7 day average number of queries that each user is running in your project.
• Users that have run the most queries in the last 7 days: a list of the users that have run the most queries in your project in the last 7 days.
• Users that have updated the most charts in the last 7 days: a list of users that have updated (including created) the most charts in the project in the last 7 days.
• Users that have not run a query in the last 90 days: a list of users that have not run a query in the project in the last 7 days. This includes viewing charts and dashboards.

Query tags

Query tags are metadata which is added to your data warehouse queries and gives you information about the user_id, project_id and organization_id for each query executed.

Query tags are stored differently in each data warehouse:

Data Warehouse	Query Tag
BigQuery	Persists in the labels parameter in your job history.
Snowflake	Persists in the comment parameter in your query history.
Trino	Appends to the SQL in your query history.
Redshift	Appends to the SQL in your query history.
Databricks	Appends to the SQL in your query history.
Postgres	Appends to the SQL in your query history.