Events best practices

Use types to provide a shape for events, rather than using ad hoc event properties.

• Not using types significantly impacts dashboards, widgets, gages, and other visual representations.

• Not using types also adversely affects query performance and your ability to specify precise queries.

When querying events, and entities to a lesser extent, aim to provide the most restrictive filter first in the query.

The parent property/relationship is not required, but its use will improve performance.

Events may have relationships to multiple entities. The typical relationship between events and entities is an event pointing to an entity or entities, with many events to one entity.

We recommend that events have one entity parent. The parent property/relationship is not required, but its use will improve performance and is used in authorization.