Algolia Events & Insights

Overview

Algolia doesn't use traditional webhooks. Instead, it provides the Insights API for sending user behavior events (clicks, conversions, views) back to Algolia, and the Analytics API for reading search performance data. For keeping your index in sync, you build event-driven pipelines from your database to Algolia.

Prerequisites

• algoliasearch v5 installed (Insights client is included)
• Index with records and queryID enabled (for click analytics)
• search-insights npm package for frontend event tracking

Instructions

Step 1: Enable Click Analytics in Search

import { algoliasearch } from 'algoliasearch';