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title: Custom DAU Metric Creation Guide
description: "Step-by-step guide to create custom Daily Active User (DAU) metrics tailored to your specific business needs."
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# Custom DAU Metric Creation Guide

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## Custom DAU metric creation guide

A custom DAU metric counts the unique users who trigger a specific event each day, such as Add to Cart. Create one in the Metrics Catalog as a Unit Count metric when you want daily-active-user tracking for an event Statsig doesn't generate automatically.

### Step 1: Navigate to the metrics catalog

Go to the _Metrics Catalog_ in the left navigation bar and select **Create**.

![Picture1.png](https://docs.statsig.com/images/custom-metrics/Picture1.png)

![Picture2.png](https://docs.statsig.com/images/custom-metrics/Picture2.png)

### Step 2: Name your metric

Enter a name for your metric. For example: "Add to Cart DAU".

![Picture3.png](https://docs.statsig.com/images/custom-metrics/Picture3.png)

### Step 3: Choose the metric type

To create a DAU metric, select **Unit Count** as the metric type.

![Picture4.png](https://docs.statsig.com/images/custom-metrics/Picture4.png)

### Step 4: Select the ID type

Select the ID type to count. For example, select **User ID**, which is the most common ID type for DAU metrics.

![Picture5.png](https://docs.statsig.com/images/custom-metrics/Picture5.png)

### Step 5: Choose the event

Select the event to use for your metric. For example, select the **Add to Cart** event.

![Picture6.png](https://docs.statsig.com/images/custom-metrics/Picture6.png)

### Step 6: Submit the metric

Submit the metric. Statsig now creates your custom DAU metric.

![Picture7.png](https://docs.statsig.com/images/custom-metrics/Picture7.png)