Why tracking everything in analytics actually makes things worse
Original: Making Smart Trade-Offs in Analytics: A Slack Tracking-Plan Journey
Summary
Timo Dechau explores how to decide between new events and richer properties using Slack as an example.
Who This Is For
Product Analysts
Product Managers
Analytics Engineers
Key Takeaways
- Use the Core Entity Test to decide what's actually worth tracking in your product
- Avoid 'analytics debt' by being intentional about event design rather than tracking everything
- Learn when to create new events versus adding properties to existing ones
- Understand how over-tracking leads to higher costs, data quality issues, and analysis paralysis
Tools & Technologies
Slack Analytics platforms (general) Event tracking systems
Topics Covered
tracking-design event-properties analytics-debt core-entity
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