Algolia Insights

Events represent user interactions with your app or website. They unlock powerful features, such as recommendations, personalization, smarter search results, and analytics that help you optimize your user experience.

Client libraries

Use Algolia's API clients, libraries, and integrations to collect events from your UI and send them to the Insights API. See: Algolia's ecosystem.

Base URLs

The base URLs for making requests to the Insights API are:

• https://insights.us.algolia.io
• https://insights.de.algolia.io
• https//insights.algolia.io (routes requests to the closest of the above servers, based on your geographical location)

All requests must use HTTPS.

Authentication

To authenticate your API requests, add these headers:

• x-algolia-application-id. Your Algolia application ID.
• x-algolia-api-key. An API key with the necessary permissions to make the request. The required access control list (ACL) to make a request is listed in each endpoint's reference.

You can find your application ID and API key in the Algolia dashboard.

Request format

Request bodies must be JSON objects.

Response status and errors

Response bodies are JSON objects. Deleting a user token returns an empty response body with rate-limiting information as headers.

Successful responses return a 2xx status. Client errors return a 4xx status. Server errors are indicated by a 5xx status. Error responses have a message property with more information.

The Insights API doesn't validate if the event parameters such as indexName, objectIDs, or userToken, correspond to anything in the Search API. It just checks if they're formatted correctly. Check the Events health section, whether your events can be used for Algolia features such as Analytics, or Dynamic Re-Ranking.

Version

The current version of the Insights API is version 1, as indicated by the /1/ in each endpoint's URL.

Operations