# How can we get the user metrics

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-get-the-user-metrics/155082>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 1, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-get-the-user-metrics/155082 "2018-11-01T21:15:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![rajkumar.m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9bcb4/32.png) [@rajkumar.m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajkumar.m)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-get-the-user-metrics/155082/1 "2018-11-01T21:15:08Z")

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Hi Team,

How can we get the user metrics  
I would like to know how many users are accessing/hitting my kibana dashboards  
Please advise

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-get-the-user-metrics/155082/2 "2018-11-02T16:41:11Z")

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You might want to think about using a visualization to track the number of users captured in time buckets. You can create a bar chart or area chart and split the series using a terms aggregation.With auto-refresh enabled for the visualization or dashboard, you will see new events as they come in .  
For ex: if you pick a Data Tab le Viz and split on the field you wish to see the unique values for.

![screenshot1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/e/eea9fa4e659952b3a0cb4f0b13ce25ea9158e9d2.png)

You can add sub buckets for additional columns. You can add this to dashboard and see how many users are hitting the dashboard.

Thanks  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![rajkumar.m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9bcb4/32.png) [@rajkumar.m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajkumar.m)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-get-the-user-metrics/155082/3 "2018-11-02T17:06:13Z")

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Thanks Rashmi for reply,

what is time buckets? and where is it stored?  
I am looking for the data how and where can i get in kibana.  
is this something already available in Kibana/elastic cluster?

I have released my Kibana to my app users. and they started monitoring their dashboards.  
but i dont how many users are really using my application

Please let me know.

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-get-the-user-metrics/155082/4 "2018-11-02T17:37:50Z")

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We don't audit a user's activity in such a way . There is an issue for tracking that feature request .

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/17939>

Cheers  
Rashmi

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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 30, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-get-the-user-metrics/155082/5 "2018-11-30T17:37:59Z")

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