The conversation history tool provides an interface for browsing and analyzing actual production conversations between your agent and end-users. This can be useful to evaluate the functional performance of your agent or to debug issues.
Flow and page analysis helps you understand traffic and escalations through the flow graph of an agent. This enables agent builders to analyze traffic flow (high and low traffic paths), discover issue hotspots (for example, to pinpoint high escalations), and drill down to the specific pages and intents causing issues. Flow and page analysis can be used along with conversation history filters, to allow for maximum flexibility in studying a relevant subset of traffic.
Limitations
Loading the Flow Analysis Table and Flow Analysis Graph views can be slow for large agents. To improve load times, use an intent filter and a one week date range.
At most 500 turns will be logged for each conversation.
Permissions required
Using this tool requires the dialogflow.conversations permission. This permission can be added to a custom role. It is also available in the Admin role, as well as other Conversational Agents (Dialogflow CX) roles.
Enable and disable conversation history
The conversation history tool uses data from interaction logs. You can enable and disable conversation history with the Enable interaction logging agent setting.
You can also control how long data is retained by
using the retention_window_days
security setting.
Browsing the conversation history
To use the conversation history tool:
- Open the Dialogflow CX console.
- Choose your project.
- Select your agent.
- Select the Manage tab.
- Click Conversation History.
- Conversations are listed in a table.
- Optionally apply filters using the filter control above the table.
- Select one of the tabs, each of which are described later in this document.
Download conversation history to a CSV file
- Open the Dialogflow CX console.
- Choose your project.
- Select your agent.
- Select the Manage tab.
- Click Conversation History.
- Conversation sessions are listed in a table.
Select a conversation session, then click the open conversation in preview panel button:
Click Export all conversations. A CSV file containing the conversations will automatically download to your computer. The maximum number of conversations that can be downloaded is 50. If the conversation session you selected contains more than 50 conversations, the download will fail.
Conversations
Conversations are shown in two views: conversation summary view and conversation details view.
Conversation summary view
The conversation summary view lists all conversations. The following metadata is provided for each conversation:
| X | Item |
|---|---|
| Conversation ID | An identifier for the conversation |
| Duration | Duration of the conversation |
| Turns | The number of conversational turns |
| Channel | Either chat (text), voice, or undetermined (no end-user input has been provided to the conversation yet) |
| Language | The language for the conversation |
| Environment | The agent's environment |
| Start time | Start time for the conversation |
| Flags | May be set to Live Agent Handoff (if conversation escalated to a human agent) or Abandoned (if end-user left the incomplete conversation) or TU,TD (if answer in the conversation got end-user rating) |
You can filter the results by metadata (except environment and duration) and the following additional filter options:
| X | Item |
|---|---|
| Intent | The provided intent was matched at some point in the conversation |
| No Match | Some subset of conversational turns resulted in an intent no-match |
| Flow | The provided flow is the final active flow at the end of some conversation turn |
| Page | The provided page is the final active page at the end of some conversation turn |
| Is Live Agent Handoff | The Live Agent Handoff flag is set |
| Is Abandoned | The Abandoned flag is set |
| Conversation ID | A specific conversation is chosen |
| Start Time | A date range is provided |
| Agent Utterance | The provided text is a substring of an utterance that was used by the agent at some point in the conversation. The substring must contain complete words (bounded by space characters or either end) as found in the utterance. |
| User Utterance | The provided text is a substring of an utterance that was used by the user at some point in the conversation. The substring must contain complete words (bounded by space characters or either end) as found in the utterance. |
| Has Thumbs Up Feedback | Thumbs Up feedback provided for a response in the conversation, the TU flag is set |
| Has Thumbs Down Feedback | Thumbs Down feedback provided for a response in the conversation, the TD flag is set |
Conversation details view
You can browse the turn-by-turn view of a specific conversation in the conversation details view. Each conversational turn provides the end-user message, the agent message, and the following metadata:
| X | Item |
|---|---|
| Intent | An intent display name that was matched or No Match |
| Page | The final active page name |
| Flow | The final active flow name |
| Parameters | Parameters collected during the conversational turn |
Example use case
The tool can be used to identify agent issues that result in escalations to a human agent. From the conversation summary view, you can apply the Is Live Agent Handoff filter for Yes. Examine some of these conversations and try to find common patterns. For example, you may find that in most of the conversations, there is a no-match flag for turns on a specific page. This would indicate that an intent route needs to be created, or that an existing intent route is not in scope when it needs to be.
Flow analysis table
The Flow Analysis - Table tab is used to analyze traffic and exits in flows and pages in tabular form.
The following metrics are shown:
| X | Item |
|---|---|
| Flow name | Flow name for each flow in your agent |
| Relative traffic | The number of conversations that went through this flow |
| Escalation rate | The percentage of conversations that result in a request for human escalation out of all conversations that went through this flow |
| Exit rate | The percentage of conversations that ended after this flow or transitioned to SESSION_END from this flow, out of all conversations that went through this flow |
Clicking the list button opens a sample of relevant conversations for the row. You can read through the samples to better understand specific and nuanced issues. For example, you can examine why escalations are happening. To view the full details of a sample, click the Conversation details link.
Clicking Detailed Stats for a flow opens the traffic stats for flows. This shows flow transition stats from and to the selected flow.
The following metrics are shown:
| X | Item |
|---|---|
| Next Flow | Stats for transitions from selected flow to another flow |
| Previous Flow | Stats for transitions from another flow to the selected flow |
Clicking any flow row drills down into the pages that compromise that flow.
The following metrics are shown:
| X | Item |
|---|---|
| Relative Traffic | The number of conversations that visited this page. |
| Escalation rate | The percentage of conversations that result in a request for human escalation out of all conversations that visited this page |
| Exit rate | The percentage of conversations that exit the flow or exit the session (END_SESSION) directly after visiting this page, out of all conversations that visited this page |
| No Match rate | The percentage of conversations that resulted in no-match out of all conversations that visited this page |
Clicking Detailed Stats for a page opens the traffic stats for pages. This shows page transition stats from and to the selected page.
The following metrics are shown:
| X | Item |
|---|---|
| Intent | Stats for intent matches for the page |
| Next Page | Stats for transitions from selected page to another page |
| Previous Page | Stats for transitions from another page to the selected page |
Flow analysis graph
The Flow Analysis - Graph tab is used to analyze traffic and exits in flows and pages in graph form.
Clicking on any flow drills down into the traffic for the pages within the flow.
You can use the zoom slider to vary the level of detail that you see on the graph. Low volume paths are dropped from the visualization at lower settings. Even at higher settings, very low volume paths are always hidden.
Metrics are color-coded to easily find high severity issues.
Clicking the list button shows relevant conversations.
Clicking on any flow takes you to the pages within that flow. Here you get more overlay metrics: relative traffic, no match rate, escalation rate, and exit rate.
Access conversation history with the API
You can access conversation history with the API. See the V3beta1 reference documentation.
Privacy
When you enable conversation history, Google collects and stores your
conversation data for a period of time before permanently deleting it. The
default is 365 days, but you can shorten this time period using the
retention_window_days field in
SecuritySettings.
You retain full ownership of your data while it's stored. Google won't use
your data or access it for any purposes other than customer support.