Similar to solutions like kissmetrics and mixpanel, users send data they want to track via HTTP requests to an input server. They then log into the dashboard fo

Similar to solutions like kissmetrics and mixpanel, users send data they want to track via HTTP requests to an input server. They then log into the dashboard for their account and the data from their application is supplied to the dashboard via the typical AJAX model. It's not just a visualization tool that sits on top of whatever you're local data source is. You send data to the cloud and view it in the cloud.