Query Builder & Boards

The query builder is a great way to view and analyze the markers sent to Gamebeast from your experience. With the query builder, you can filter and group your markers to create custom visualizations that help you understand how players are interacting with your experience.

Creating a query board

To visualize marker data from your experience, navigate to the Boards page in the Gamebeast dashboard. Boards are how you organize your queries. You can create multiple boards to group your queries by different categories or use cases.

To create a new board, click the New Board button in the top left corner of the Boards page, and give your board a name.

Adding a query visualization

Once you’ve created a board, you can click “Add to board” to add a new query visualization to your board.

On the right side of visualization setup, you can configure the data source (Metric) for your query and group your markers by various properties & arguments

Metrics

The metrics field is where you select your data source for the query. You can choose from a list of available metrics, such as player joins, player leaves, and custom markers sent from your experience.

On each metric, you can select the type of data you want to visualize, such as the count of markers, the average value of a property, or the sum of a property.

Local Filters

Local filters allow you to filter a specific metric in the query by its properties, arguments or experiments.

See global filters below for more information on the available filter options.

Global Filters

Similar to Local Filters, Global filters allow you to filter all of your metrics by a shared property, argument, or experiment.

• Property: Provided automatically by Gamebeast, has general global information about the marker, such as Country, Device, Language, etc.
• Argument: Custom arguments that you have sent with your markers, such as a Level, ItemName or any other custom data you want to track.
• Experiment: If you have experiments running in your experience, you can filter your data by the experiment name to see how different variations are performing.

Breakdowns

Finally, breakdowns allow you visualize your data by variations in a specific property or argument.

For example, here is a breakdown of the Country property, which will show you how many players from each country have joined your experience.

Configuring the visualization

At the top of the visualization preview, you can filter the data by time range, and choose from a variety of visualization types, such as line charts, bar charts, and column charts.