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Does Mixpanel have default events for tracking DAU and MAU, or are custom events required?

·Mar 16, 2026 07:15 AM·

i've had to create my own custom event for DAU, MAU - i don't think mixpanel has a default event right?

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Andrew S.
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Vlad S.
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note that this uses "Session Start" as the event, which is a good default but you may want to be more specific about what counts as "active" for your use case... for example, we track all visits to the site, which all trigger a session, but we only count actions that trigger a save / database write as being "active" (at least active enough for our metrics)
Andrew S.
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what ^ said . . .