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Realtime

Realtime

- [Instructor] So we're here on the home screen, and one of the first reports we see when we come down here to the report section is the realtime report. Realtime reports give a sense for what's happening right now, just like if we walked into our brick and mortar store, we took a look around to get a snapshot of what it's like at any given minute. And we showed earlier how it can be useful for a bit of troubleshooting in the initial setup. Where it really comes alive is when your data's flowing in from real live users. And here we can see where our active users are in the world. We can see some of the devices they're using. And unlike previous realtime reports that were extremely limited, we can get some config options and dimensions right here in the reports in real time. Right here we've got users by their first user source. We can come down, we can select medium, and we can see that we have some configuration options…

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