About Tracking Usage

You can configure usage tracking in services that offer enterprise modeling features. Usage information is tracked at the detailed user query level so you can answer questions such as:

• How are users engaging with Oracle Analytics Cloud?
• Where are they spending or not spending their time?
• How long do users spend in each session, between sessions, and between queries?
• How are queries within sessions, across sessions, and across users related to each other?
• Are users drilling up and down in analyses?
• What queries are running when issues are reported?

The usage statistics that you gather can help you to monitor system usage and performance so you can better understand and predict user behavior. You can increase your efficiency and reduce errors if you know in advance how your system is likely to be used.

When you enable usage tracking, the system collects data records for every query that is run and writes them all to database tables. Both logical and physical queries are tracked and logged in separate tables, along with various performance measures such as the time taken to run the query and number of rows searched while processing a user query.