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# Account Usage

* How popular is Adobe Analytics at my organization and how has this developed over time? For example, are logins and workspace views trending up or down?
* Who are my power users?
* Which users are at risk (less active recently compared to earlier)?

For questions like these, there is the account usage tab.

To **update the tab**, simply go to **"Adobe Component Manager -> Other -> Get Account Usage Stats"** and enjoy the insights.

![Shed light on the activity of your organization's Adobe Analytics users](/files/ssQ9mRVlKAmUnBTsz3D2)

Updating the tab for the first time can take a while, usually between 5 and 45 minutes, depending on how much is going on in your Adobe Analytics account.

To see email addresses or login names instead of hashes, uncheck the "**no personal data**" **checkbox in the "config" tab.**

### Copy the stats to your own Google Cloud Storage bucket

If you want the raw account usage data outside of Google Sheets — for example to feed it into your own data warehouse or BI pipeline — the Component Manager can automatically write a CSV copy of the account usage stats to a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket in **your own** Google Cloud project.

To enable this, set the **`gcs_bucket`** key in the **"config" tab** to the name of your target bucket (e.g. `my-company-component-manager`). From then on, every account usage update writes a copy of the stats CSV to that bucket.

The bucket must grant **Storage Object Admin** (`roles/storage.objectAdmin`) permission to the Component Manager service account **`gcf-scripts-runner-v2@dim28-comp-mgr.iam.gserviceaccount.com`** so it can create and overwrite the file.

{% hint style="info" %}
See the [config tab reference](/main-functions/the-config-tab.md) for all available config keys.
{% endhint %}

### **Frequent Questions**

#### Are views from technical users (e.g. via API) counted?

No. Account Usage Stats and Workspace Stats filter out all operations by technical users (via the "\*@techacct.adobe.com" email address).

#### Does the moment a Scheduled Project is generated count as a Workspace view?

Adobe Analytics does generate a project\_view event (= a Workspace view) for the respective project and the user that created the schedule at the time of dispatch. It can't be distinguished from a regular project\_view. The opinions on this differ: Some people see this as beneficial - this way, getting a Workspace PDF to your mailbox can be seen as a way to "view" a Workspace.