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Explore a Metric Explorer data point with Microscope

Microscope opens when you click a data point on a Metric Explorer chart. It acts on the users or groups behind that one point, for that metric and interval. Use it to move from a number on the chart to the people behind it: who they are, what they did next, what their sessions looked like, and how to act on them.

Open Microscope on a data point

  1. Hover over the series you want to inspect. On a busy chart, clear the other series in the breakdown table first to make clicking easier.
  2. Click a data point. The Microscope menu opens with the actions available for that metric.

Microscope actions in Metric Explorer

ActionWhat it does
Zoom InRe-queries the chart at the next finer interval for the clicked period. For example, a day becomes 24 hourly points.
View UsersLists the users in the data point. Click a user to open their profile.
Download UsersDownloads the users in the data point as a CSV file, up to 1 million users, with their most recent user property values.
Show JourneysOpens the top paths that users in the data point took, starting from the metric's event.
Watch Session ReplaysOpens session replays for the users in the data point. Requires Session Replay.
Create CohortSaves the users in the data point as a cohort, with the chart's event, segment, and clicked date in the cohort description.
Add Users to…Adds the users to a Web Experiment, Feature Experiment, Feature Flag, Guide, or Survey. Amplitude creates a cohort from the data point and opens the target.
View Groups and Download GroupsReplace View Users and Download Users when the chart counts by a group, such as accounts, instead of users. Requires account-level reporting.

Which metrics offer which actions

The actions depend on the type of metric you click:

  • Event metrics and session metrics: The actions in the table. For a session metric, the users are those whose sessions make up the point.
  • Formulas: A formula's value comes from several metrics, so it has no single set of users. To inspect the users behind a formula, turn on Show in results for one of its input metrics and click a point on that input.
  • KPI visualization: Download Users, Create Cohort, and Show Journeys.

Actions that list users are unavailable on points with a value of zero.

Find users who abandoned a cart

This example turns a session metric into a reusable audience:

  1. Add Add to Cart measured as Total Sessions, with + Filter by > [Amplitude] Contains Event > Purchase = 0.
  2. Click the point for the day you want to inspect.
  3. Click Create Cohort and name the cohort, for example Abandoned cart: last 7 days.
  4. Use the cohort as a segment in other charts, or click the point again and use Add Users to… > Guide to show those users a reminder.

For Microscope behavior across all Amplitude charts, including user streams and conversion drivers, go to Microscope.

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