# Canvas analytics

### What's Canvas analytics?

While in the [Canvas of a flow](https://docs.nlx.ai/platform/nlx-platform-guide/flows-and-building-blocks/overview/canvas), you can inspect the number of unique user conversations that have hit each node in a deployed application. This becomes useful to identify the pathways taken with a particular flow and assess the efficacy or potential gaps of a flow. 

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Be sure to [deploy a build](https://docs.nlx.ai/platform/nlx-platform-guide/ai-applications/types/core#deployment) using the flow you want to analyze before engaging with the Canvas analytics.
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### Access

To access this feature, select your flow and enable the *Analyze* icon from your Canvas toolbar:

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* Select *Resources* from your workspace menu ? Click *Flows* > Choose an existing flow
* Select the *Analytics* icon (bar chart icon) in the Canvas toolbar

You can continue to modify and build with your flow while in *Analyze* mode. To disable viewing Canvas analytics, simply click the *Analytics* icon again.

:brain: Looking for more? Get acquainted with the rest of your [Canvas toolbar](https://docs.nlx.ai/platform/nlx-platform-guide/flows-and-building-blocks/overview/canvas#toolbar).

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### Tags

Tagging nodes using either built-in tags or custom ones added to your workspace allows you to filter your conversation while viewing your flow with *Analyze* enabled.

NLX's system tags can be used to tag any node in your conversation flow and does not automatically determine what is automated, helpful, or not helpful.&#x20;

* *Automated*
* *Helpful*
* *Not\_helpful*
* \+ add custom tags using [Analytics tags](https://docs.nlx.ai/platform/nlx-platform-guide/monitoring/analytics/analytics-tags) of your workspace *Resources*

Looking to assign tags to nodes in your flow? See [node setup](https://docs.nlx.ai/platform/nlx-platform-guide/flows-and-building-blocks/overview/nodes#analytics-tags)

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### Analyzing

When analyzing, your flow presents a number indicator on every node, corresponding to the total unique counts the node was hit by users:

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You may further refine your analysis view with these available filters:

* *Application*: Specify the application in cases where your flow is attached to multiple
* [*Conversation ID*](https://docs.nlx.ai/platform/nlx-platform-guide/monitoring/conversation-history): View a particular conversation's path with a user
* *Start time*: Apply the beginning of a date range
* *End time*: Apply the end of a date range
* *Tag*: Select a tag from your workspace if [assigned to any nodes](https://docs.nlx.ai/platform/nlx-platform-guide/flows-and-building-blocks/overview/nodes#analytics-tags) in the flow