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title: "Flows: user path analysis from any starting point · Countly"
description: "Pick a moment, a screen, an event, a purchase or a crash, and see every route that leads into it and every route out of it, ranked by how often it was traveled."
url: https://countly.com/feature/flows
last_modified: 2026-11-11
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Flows

# The paths people take, not the ones you designed

Pick a moment, a screen, an event, a purchase or a crash, and see every route that leads into it and every route out of it, ranked by how often it was traveled.

In this demo shop, the routes into a purchase and the routes out of it, step by step, with the share each one takes and where people stop.

Part of analytics

## Every question about what happens around a moment

A list tells you how many did something. A flow tells you what they did around it: before, after, or both.

- What did they do next? Start from any moment and read the next step people actually took, ranked, then follow the trail further.
- How did they get here? Flip the direction and the steps before a purchase or a crash appear, often a recipe for reproducing it.
- Cut the noise Exclude the events everyone passes through. Steps bridge across them, and nobody is dropped for having done them.
- Make it a report Fix the question, the audience and the period, and get exact numbers from every profile, shared with whoever needs them.
Explore, then report

## Explore to find the story. Report to state it.

The same picture at two levels of commitment: one answers as fast as you can click, the other gives the number you can put in a deck.

Explore Report

Speed Recomputes on every change Computed once, then cached

Numbers From a sample on large projects, scaled up and labelled as an estimate Exact, from every profile

Period Whatever range you are looking at Fixed, re-run for the latest

Start point Any moment of nine kinds Also filtered by the event’s own properties

Sharing A link that opens the same exploration Private, named people, or everyone

Long questions Finish in the background and land as a private report Show their status until the run lands

Works with

## Flows, with the rest of Countly

Every feature reads the same live data, so an answer in Flows doesn’t stop there. These are the handoffs built in.

[All features](https://countly.com/platform/features)

Views

Start a flow from any screen, or let screens fill its steps.

Open

[(Views Start a flow from any screen, or let screens fill its steps. Open)(https:](https://countly.com/feature/views)

Crashes & Errors

Start from a crash and walk backward: the paths into it read as a way to reproduce it.

Open

[(Crashes & Errors Start from a crash and walk backward: the paths into it read a](https://countly.com/feature/crashes-errors)

Cohorts

Ask the same question of one audience, with a cohort or profile group as the filter.

Open

[(Cohorts Ask the same question of one audience, with a cohort or profile group a](https://countly.com/feature/cohorts)

Push Notifications

Start from a push and see what people did after it.

Open

[(Push Notifications Start from a push and see what people did after it. Open)(ht](https://countly.com/feature/push-notifications)

Journeys

Start from a journey and follow what its profiles went on to do.

Open

[(Journeys Start from a journey and follow what its profiles went on to do. Open)](https://countly.com/feature/journeys)

Surveys

Start from a survey or an NPS answer and see what came next.

Open

[(Surveys Start from a survey or an NPS answer and see what came next. Open)(http](https://countly.com/feature/surveys)

Data ownership

## Every path, from data that stays yours

A flow is built from each person’s sequence of events, the most detailed record of how your product is used. It is computed where that record lives.

[Data privacy](https://countly.com/platform/data-privacy)

### Self-hosted, or dedicated

Run Countly in your own cloud, your data center or an air-gapped network. Or let us run a single-tenant instance in the Google Cloud region you choose.

### No export to explore

Every walk runs on the events Countly already stores. Nothing is copied out to answer a question.

### No default vendor access

On Enterprise, Countly has no access unless you grant it. On Flex, access is limited, granted by you and logged.

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