Exploring user events within the Debugger

When attempting to understand what LaunchDarkly is doing with specific users, the Debugger offers a similar experience to that of feature flag evaluations. Again, the Debugger works in the same manner as Flag events by streaming live data and presenting it once opened. It highlights the key numbers and presents a breakdown of each event that is streamed to the Debugger:

Figure 12.6 – Viewing users within the Debugger

The Debugger records the following three types of user events to demonstrate what is happening within your application and the tool itself:

• users seen: This shows the number of unique users that are seen during the time the Debugger is open.
• index events: This indicates the total number of index events for users. It is triggered by the LaunchDarkly SDK for feature flag evaluations.
• identify events: This shows the number of identity events that are triggered by explicit methods within...