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title: "Using insights in Airtable"
slug: "using-insights"
description: "Airtable’s Insights are designed to help owners and creators understand the activity connected to their bases and interfaces."
updated: 2025-11-18T21:37:18Z
published: 2025-11-18T21:37:18Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.airtable.com/llms.txt
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# Using insights in Airtable

| [**Plan availability**](https://airtable.com/pricing) | Business and Enterprise Scale plans |
| --- | --- |
| **Permissions** | Owners and Creators |
| **Platform(s)** | Web/Browser, Mac app, and Windows app |

This article details how to use Airtable insights to understand base and interface activity, identify ways to optimize bases and interfaces, and help with base maintenance.

## Airtable insights glossary & metric definitions

| **Term** | **Definition** |
| --- | --- |
| View | A table view within a base |
| Page | An interface page |
| User | Both authenticated and unauthenticated users (unauthenticated users will be noted as anonymous users) |

| **Metric** | **Definition** |
| --- | --- |
| Daily active user | A unique user who has opened Airtable and/or made record edits in the last 24 hours |
| Weekly active user | A unique user who has opened Airtable and/or made record edits in the last 7 days |
| Overall activity | Count of unique users who have taken at least one action (view or page open/record edits) in any part of Airtable |
| Base activity | Count of unique users who have taken at least one action (view open/record edits) in the base |
| Interface activity | Count of unique users who have taken at least one action (page open/record edits) in interfaces |
| Days active | Count of distinct days when a user takes any of the following actions: views or opens interface pages, or record activity, within the selected date range (Default previous month), using the user’s timezone. |
| Opens | Navigating to, or refreshing, a view or interface page |
| Record edits | Count of all edits a user made to records in either views or interface pages |
| Record activity by base or interface | The total number of times there have been record edits in either the base or interfaces |
| Top users | The total count of activity across all metrics on the top users table, ranking users from highest total to lowest |
| Top places (bar chart) | The top 10 interface pages and views based on opens, ranked from highest to lowest |
| Top places (details table) | The top interface pages and views based on the total count of opens plus activity, ranked from highest to lowest |

## Accessing insights in Airtable

To access insights:

1. Open your [Airtable home screen](https://airtable.com/).
2. Create or open your preferred base.
3. Click **Tools** in the upper-right portion of the screen.
4. Select **Insights** from the dropdown.

## Insights in Airtable overview

The Airtable insights details the following information:

- Base suggestions
- Base and interface activity
- Top base and interface users

## Downloading Airtable insights CSVs

To download insights CSVs:

1. Open your [Airtable home screen](https://airtable.com/).
2. Create or open your preferred base.
3. Click **Tools** in the upper-right portion of the screen.
4. Select **Insights** from the dropdown.
  1. Insights are available for: Daily active users, Record activity surface, Top users, and Top places.
5. Click the dropdown **⌄** icon next to your preferred insight.
6. Click Download **CSV**.