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Schedule the Event Monitoring Analytics Daily Dataflow
Schedule a daily app refresh to update the dataflow before you start exploring event data with Event Monitoring Analytics.
Required Editions
| Available in both Salesforce Classic (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience. |
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, and Unlimited Editions Requires Salesforce Shield or Salesforce Event Monitoring add-on subscriptions. |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To create and manage Event Monitoring Analytics Apps: | Access Event Monitoring Analytics Templates and Apps |
| Manage CRM Analytics Templated Apps | |
| Edit CRM Analytics Dataflows | |
When you create Event Monitoring Analytics, a dataflow runs one time to import the latest Event Monitoring data to CRM Analytics. To ensure that your app uses up-to-date Salesforce data, you can schedule the app to refresh your data every day.
Salesforce uploads event log files after they’re generated. Most dataset uploads finish at about the same time each day. Exact finish times vary depending on dataset size and content.
To get the most out of your scheduled data refresh, follow these best practices.
- To ensure that the app has the latest data, schedule the app refresh to run a few hours after event log files are generated. Large datasets take longer to upload, so schedule more time for them.
- To prevent the app from overwriting full datasets every day, add the new Add
only new event log file data to existing datasets? app configuration. The
app looks for the new event log file data, adds it, and deletes all data that’s outside of
the date retention period. Appending only new data reduces network loads. And you’re less
likely to reach row count limits and the 50-GB data upload limit.
Note The append dataflow deletes all data in the dataset that supplies your app with new data, regardless of the specified retention period. For example, if the Login dataset is the source dataset, running the append dataflow populates the LoginWithUsers dataset and resets the row count of the Login dataset to zero. The retention period doesn’t apply to the source dataset data.To add the Add only new event log file data to existing datasets? setting to your app, see Create an Event Monitoring Analytics App That Incrementally Refreshes Data.
Multiple background Salesforce processes trigger event log file uploads. For example, if a log is generated later than expected, its corresponding event log file is regenerated and then added to a dataset. Customers then can see multiple uploads within a single day, or they can get uploads outside of the scheduled window.
To schedule your app, select a time outside normal work hours so the data refresh doesn’t interrupt business activities.
