# Frontend click metrics

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frontend-click-metrics/316563>\
**Category:** Metrics\
**Created:** [October 13, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frontend-click-metrics/316563 "2022-10-13T16:48:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![batata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@batata](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/batata)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frontend-click-metrics/316563/1 "2022-10-13T16:48:11Z")

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Hi.

I'm new to Elastic and I have been reading the docs for what I need and I can't find something precise.

I want a metric click event only on some parts of the interface.

This button triggers a third party widget app, similar to some chat apps, so it never reach my servers, and I want to tack how many times some buttons are clicked.

I don't want at the moment all those fancy stuffs from RUM.

I want a Kibana dashboard that will show how many clicks a button had.

I couldn't find any api or documentation for something like that.

So the solution would be create my custom index, and just query that index on kibana?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frontend-click-metrics/316563/2 "2022-10-17T03:27:21Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

You need something like APM to do this so that it injects itself into that call.

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**Author:** ![batata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@batata](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/batata)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frontend-click-metrics/316563/3 "2022-10-18T14:23:31Z")

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Ok. I will try using the APM.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frontend-click-metrics/316563/4 "2022-11-15T14:23:58Z")

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