Metrics and attributes for Zendesk Talk

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  • Brandon

    When I am looking at my teams metrics, I see data for "missed call legs" by agent and am wondering if a customer hangs up before the call is answered by the agent, does that count as missed call leg? Trying to get a better feeling for the number that our agents are missing and I don't want to lean on this metric too heavily if it's also counting calls where the customer hangs up. Thanks!

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  • Brandon Tidd
    User Group Leader Community Moderator
    Zendesk Luminary
    The Humblident Award - 2021

    Hi Brandon, It's Brandon!

    Great Question.  Here's what we know:

    Missed call legs The number of inbound calls missed by agents. IF ([Call direction]="Inbound" AND [Leg type]="Agent" AND [Leg completion status]="Agent missed") THEN [Leg ID] ENDIF
    Leg completion status Indicates whether an agent declined an incoming call, missed the prompt to accept the call, or accepted the call for an individual call leg.

    Meanwhile:

    Abandoned inbound calls The total number of incoming calls that were abandoned by the end-user. IF ([Call direction]="Inbound" AND ([Call completion status]="Abandoned in IVR" OR [Call completion status]="Abandoned in queue" OR [Call completion status]="Abandoned in voicemail" OR [Call completion status]="Abandoned in on-hold" )) THEN [Call ID] ENDIF
    Call completion status Indicates how the call was completed. Values are Abandoned in IVRAbandoned in queueAbandoned in voicemailAbandoned in on-holdCompleted, and Not answeredCompleted means that the call was successful and the end user was connected with the agent or the call was directed to voicemail or forwarded to an external number.

    Not answered means that the call wasn’t successful. An example of an inbound not answered call is when the end user wasn’t connected with the agent, or the customer left the call in a transition stage that is not included in the abandoned statuses. An example of outbound not answered call is when the end user didn’t answer the agent’s call.

    In the case of a caller hanging up before the agent has a chance to accept the call leg, this call would be, by definition, "Abandoned in Queue."  As such, it would count towards your Abandoned Inbound Call metric.  Since the leg didn't have a chance to complete, it would not have a chance to record a Leg Completion Status, therefore it would fail the condition for Missed Call Legs. 

    The wild card, of course, is the interplay between the two metrics.  Abandoned calls cannot be missed, but missed calls can be abandoned (later in the queue).  To verify, I ran a quick test data set (below).  You'll find that there is little correlation between Abandoned Calls and Missed Call Legs, however there was one case where two calls were missed and subsequently abandoned.  I hope this answers your question!


    Brandon Tidd
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  • Lucinda G.

    Hi! 

    We recently enabled the callback feature for our customers and I've noticed the Abandoned in queue and Callback requested counts at end of day are very close to each other (3 off to be exact). Does a customer requesting a callback also record as abandoned in queue?  

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  • Sarah Sabater

    Not sure I saw an answer on this question .. but I actually had the same question, how can I recreate the metric displayed in Agent Activity of Talk Dashboard using Explore?

    I'm assuming this is different than call legs - since it's the leg level vs. individual calls. I'm trying to understand why we see agents with missed call legs in the hundreds but show missed call total for a single day as 0. 

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  • Katie Meek

    Did anyone ever find a solution for this?  I'm trying to figure out at what point in the IVR are the calls being abandoned?
    We are trying to report on the number of calls that selected each IVR option.  E.g. We had 9 calls to an IVR, 6 customers selected option 1, and 3 selected option 2.

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  • Aleksandra

     

    Hey! We are also trying to analyze our users' activity in the IVR. We would like to analyze the data related to users' interaction with the menu levels, the most commonly pressed keys and the abandonment rate in each menu level. Is that possible with Explore? If not are you planning to implement that in the near future. Also, if it is not possible with Explore, can we get this data by connecting to the Zendesk API? 

    Looking forward to hearing from you (: 

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  • Qin Brian

    Can Zendesk show in one chart to explain how the metrics about times in  inbound call and outbound call?

    It's hard to understand difference between leg and call.

    For example, the agents made 10 outbound calling, and we would like to know how much time is used by the agents to do the whole callings.

    We would like to know on outbound

    1) how much time is used by agents to wait for users picking up

    2) how much time is used for the calling

    3) how much time is used for wrap-up.

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  • Brandon Tidd
    User Group Leader Community Moderator
    Zendesk Luminary
    The Humblident Award - 2021

    Hey Qin,

    Thanks for writing in!  I think this chart should give you what you need.

    For outbound calls, call answer time gives you the amount of time it took the end-user to pick up.  Call talk time gives you the time they spent talking, and on-hold + consultation gives you the amount of time the end-user was waiting for or speaking to a supervisor.  This should all add up (+/- 2 seconds) to call duration, with call wrap-up time coming after.

    The primary difference between leg and call is that legs are part of calls.  You can have multiple agent leg call times, but only one total call time.  Hope this helps!

    Brandon Tidd

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  • angela schiff

    Regarding leg agent name: will a staff member whose talk role == team lead appear in queries when leg agent name is selected as a row? i.e. does this attribute include anyone who takes a call within my organization?

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  • Giuseppe
    Zendesk Customer Care

    Hi Angela,

    You are correct. Leg agent name refers to the name of whichever staff member for a specific call leg, regardless of the user's current role or role at that time. You can also test this by creating a query and adding a "Leg agent role" attribute, to see that not only agents appear in this attribute.

     

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  • Katie Meek

    I am still struggling with these definitions
    Is a call that is "abandoned in IVR" still considered a COMPLETED call?  To gauge the success of our marketing, we need to know how many people are calling in.  We're trying to nail down the TOTAL number of inputs.  I can find tickets very easily but I am struggling to reconcile the Voice tickets created and the total number of calls. Brandon Tidd I know we talked about this previously.

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  • Brandon Tidd
    User Group Leader Community Moderator
    Zendesk Luminary
    The Humblident Award - 2021

    Hey @katie. Yes a call abandoned in IVR is considered completed, but with a completion status of abandoned in IVR. A call that is not completed never reached your IVR, whereas a completed call with a call completion status of completed indicates an agent/voicemail was successfully reached.

    Hope this helps!

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  • Katie Meek

    Follow up question: to determine the TOTAL number of times our phone number was dialed, we would add up the Regular IB Calls + Voicemail Calls + Unsuccessful IB calls? Thank you Brandon Tidd

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  • Brandon Tidd
    User Group Leader Community Moderator
    Zendesk Luminary
    The Humblident Award - 2021

    Hi Katie Meek -

    I'll defer to the rest of the community to keep me honest here, but that sounds right.

    Brandon

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  • Benny Samuel

    Hi all, is there a way to count as a metric who is actually hanging up? If an end user hangs up during the conversation, is there a way for us to know? In the same way, if the agent hangs up on the end user, can we know? I see this metric under leg completion, but I need confirmation that this is truly just when the end user hangs up. And if so, where's the metric to count where the agent hangs up (aside from doing some calculations)?

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  • Benny Samuel

    Rob Stack Can you please post a diagram for the different ways a call can enter voicemail? We're surprised at how many calls are abandoned in voicemail and want to understand the various paths to voicemail for the caller. Thank you!

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  • Benny Samuel

    I'm posting this for everyone's education as far as the "abandoned in voicemail" metric goes. It seems that, according to a Zendesk chat agent, that if a caller hangs up while listening to your voice prompt and you do not have IVR enabled and even if you do not have voicemail enabled, that hang up counts towards "abandoned in voicemail". So if someone gets tired of hearing this message for the 8th time that they've tried to call "Hello, thank you for calling the Company, please listen carefully as our options have changed... we're experiencing a high call volume..., your wait time is 8 minutes", etc.), and they hang up, that gets counted as abandoned in voicemail, even though you don't have voicemail enabled. We've been trying to figure how we could possibly have any calls routed to voicemail. 

    If I'm wrong on this, someone please let me know how! 

    This certainly seems like it should be a different metric and an enhancement on the backend, with this sort of hang up being counted towards something like "abandoned in greeting." 

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  • Dane
    Zendesk Engineering
    @Benny,
     
    Yes, you are correct. This is the public article as well for reference: Why do calls show as abandoned in voicemail when voicemail is switched off?
     
    I understand that it can further be improved and we definitely appreciate such feedbacks. It will help us to further improve our service. This will definitely be brought to the attention of our Product Managers.

     

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  • Jee

    Hi there, can I have a clarification of the following:

    1. Detailed explanation & definition for High jitter, High latency, High packet loss, High post-dial delay, and Silence.

    2. What are the causes for end-user bad quality legs?

    3. What can end-users do improve their call quality? Is it something that we can control?

    4. Based on my team's experience, the most bad quality legs from end users comes from landline numbers and lesser from mobile numbers? What are the factors that can contribute to this?

    Appreciate your responses on my above queries.

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  • Erin O'Callaghan
    Zendesk Documentation Team

    Hi Jee, great questions! Here are some resources to help answer:

    1. You can find explanations of these values in Reporting on call quality issues. I've also updated the entry for the Leg quality issues attribute in this article to include that link.
    2. The causes for bad quality can vary, but Talk network requirements is a great place to start.
    3. The How can I improve the quality of my calls? article has some good information here, though nothing specific to end users.
    4. Not sure about this one, but Talk network requirements (same article as mentioned in 2) might be the best place to start. 

    Hope that helps!

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  • Lila Kingsley

    Talk documentation states that when voicemail is off, calls in queue after business hours will continue to queue until max wait time is met then play the voicemail off recording and end (which can happen if all agents go offline after hours).   We want to to monitor so we know how many calls were impacted and if/when/which agents are going offline after hours before the queue is cleared.  Can we do this in explore?

    I assume we'd want to pulls calls with the metric Call exceeded queue wait time and Abandoned in Voicemail (based on this article which states that hangups in the voicemail off recording are tagged with this).  I see there is also a metric for Call outside business hours but... I suspect that is for calls arriving outside business hours so isn't quite right. 

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  • Dane
    Zendesk Engineering
    Hi Lila,
     
    It seems that you have already submitted a ticket for this concern. I'll takeover that ticket to assist you. Please wait for my update via email.
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  • Benjamin Clough

    Hi there, 

    Is it possible for Talk to have a field change view? For example I am wanting to see the breakdown of the call and I can see overall hold time is, let's say, 10 mins but is that spread over 3 instances of hold or is it 1 instance?

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  • Dane
    Zendesk Engineering
    Hi Ben,
     
    The Hold metric is the total time your end-user is On-Hold status. In your example, the total time On-Hold over 3 instances.
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  • Benjamin Clough

    Hi, is there a way of breaking that down? I need to understand how many instances of hold there are in a call and how long each of those instances are. Is this possible?

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  • Dane
    Zendesk Engineering
    Hi Ben,
     
    Unfortunately, the metric (Leg on-hold time (sec)) can't be separated to individual hold instances. It will just be the total hold time for all instances.
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  • Ryen Manes

    Is IVR time included in call duration?

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  • Dane
    Zendesk Engineering
    Hi Ryen,
     
    Call Duration will start from the time the call is connected to when the call was disconnected. Hence, it includes IVR time.
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  • Myron

    Did I miss it? I need a reference to agent availability, and actual time in queue, e.g., available for calls in addition to time handling a call. It includes a log of time in, online, and offline. Please advise. Any suggestions?

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  • Jake Gonzalez

    Brandon Tidd Any Tips on reconciling Voice Tickets and Call totals? Seeing around the same figure for both but my understanding is that Voice tickets are not created when Calls are Abandoned unless you have the feature turned on (https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408821302810-Understanding-how-Talk-calls-become-tickets) and yet I'm seeing only around 100 fewer Voice tickets than Calls despite having over 500 Abandoned Calls. 

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