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Drill - API Documentation

Enterprise

This feature is part of Countly Enterprise. To get access, contact sales or compare versions. Existing customers can reach the support portal with questions.

Overview​

Drill provides deep event analytics with flexible segmentation, metadata lookup, and saved query workflows.

This index keeps a product-oriented view. Endpoint pages include request and response details.

Queries​

Bookmarks​

Maintenance​

Common Workflows​

Analyze Event Performance​

  1. Call Query Metadata - Read to discover available fields.
  2. Run Query Segmentation - Read with filter and grouping parameters.
  3. Save reusable queries with Bookmark - Create.

Manage Saved Queries​

  1. Load bookmarks with Bookmarks - Read.
  2. Apply selected query settings in Drill UI/API calls.
  3. Remove unused entries with Bookmark - Delete.

Maintain Metadata​

  1. Run Metadata Cleanup - Update for one app or all apps.
  2. Use Metadata Lists - Recheck when stored metadata value lists need to be re-evaluated.
  3. Use Metadata Regeneration when metadata needs to be rebuilt from recent Drill data.
  4. Confirm completion from system logs.

Data Sources​

  • countly_drill.drill_meta: Event and property metadata used by meta endpoints.
  • countly_drill.drill_events{appId/hash}: Event-level drill data queried by segmentation flows.
  • countly_drill.drill_bookmarks: Stored drill query bookmarks.
  • countly_drill.drill_cache: Cached drill query results (TTL-managed).
  • countly_drill.drill_snapshots: Snapshot support for drill queries.
  • countly.systemlogs: Operational logs for cleanup/bookmark operations.

Configuration Notes​

From plugins.setConfigs("drill", ...) in plugins/drill/api/api.js:

  • list_limit: max value list size for metadata responses.
  • projection_limit: limit for projection dimensions.
  • big_list_limit: limit for big-list property value extraction.
  • cache_threshold: threshold for cached query usage.
  • use_drill_snapshots and drill_snapshots_cache_time: snapshot behavior.
  • clickhouse_use_approximate_uniq: ClickHouse unique-count behavior.

Notes​

  • Most Drill reads are exposed through /o?method=....
  • Bookmark create/delete and maintenance operations are exposed through /i/drill/<action>.

Last Updated: 2026-04-17