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# Cloudflare Workers Analytics Engine Reference
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Expert guidance for implementing unlimited-cardinality analytics at scale using Cloudflare Workers Analytics Engine.
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## What is Analytics Engine?
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Time-series analytics database designed for high-cardinality data (millions of unique dimensions). Write data points from Workers, query via SQL API. Use for:
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- Custom user-facing analytics dashboards
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- Usage-based billing & metering
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- Per-customer/per-feature monitoring
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- High-frequency instrumentation without performance impact
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**Key Capability:** Track metrics with unlimited unique values (e.g., millions of user IDs, API keys) without performance degradation.
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## Core Concepts
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| Concept | Description | Example |
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| **Dataset** | Logical table for related metrics | `api_requests`, `user_events` |
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| **Data Point** | Single measurement with timestamp | One API request's metrics |
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| **Blobs** | String dimensions (max 20) | endpoint, method, status, user_id |
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| **Doubles** | Numeric values (max 20) | latency_ms, request_count, bytes |
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| **Indexes** | Filtered blobs for efficient queries | customer_id, api_key |
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## Reading Order
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| Task | Start Here | Then Read |
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|------|------------|-----------|
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| **First-time setup** | [configuration.md](configuration.md) → [api.md](api.md) → [patterns.md](patterns.md) | |
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| **Writing data** | [api.md](api.md) → [gotchas.md](gotchas.md) (sampling) | |
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| **Querying data** | [api.md](api.md) (SQL API) → [patterns.md](patterns.md) (examples) | |
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| **Debugging** | [gotchas.md](gotchas.md) → [api.md](api.md) (limits) | |
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| **Optimization** | [patterns.md](patterns.md) (anti-patterns) → [gotchas.md](gotchas.md) | |
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## When to Use Analytics Engine
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Need to track metrics? → Yes
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Millions of unique dimension values? → Yes
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Need real-time queries? → Yes
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Use Analytics Engine ✓
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Alternative scenarios:
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- Low cardinality (<10k unique values) → Workers Analytics (free tier)
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- Complex joins/relations → D1 Database
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- Logs/debugging → Tail Workers (logpush)
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- External tools → Send to external analytics (Datadog, etc.)
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## Quick Start
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1. Add binding to `wrangler.jsonc`:
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```jsonc
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{
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"analytics_engine_datasets": [
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{ "binding": "ANALYTICS", "dataset": "my_events" }
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]
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}
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```
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2. Write data points (fire-and-forget, no await):
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```typescript
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env.ANALYTICS.writeDataPoint({
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blobs: ["/api/users", "GET", "200"],
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doubles: [145.2, 1], // latency_ms, count
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indexes: [customerId]
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});
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```
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3. Query via SQL API (HTTP):
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```sql
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SELECT blob1, SUM(double2) AS total_requests
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FROM my_events
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WHERE index1 = 'customer_123'
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AND timestamp >= NOW() - INTERVAL '7' DAY
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GROUP BY blob1
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ORDER BY total_requests DESC
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```
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## In This Reference
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- **[configuration.md](configuration.md)** - Setup, bindings, TypeScript types, limits
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- **[api.md](api.md)** - `writeDataPoint()`, SQL API, query syntax
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- **[patterns.md](patterns.md)** - Use cases, examples, anti-patterns
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- **[gotchas.md](gotchas.md)** - Sampling, index selection, troubleshooting
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## See Also
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- [Cloudflare Analytics Engine Docs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/analytics-engine/)
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