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# Use Guardian Topics

Guardian topics are groups of user behaviors that Guardian uses to predict positive or negative impacts on your website.

### Required Editions

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From the Guardian Topics tab, you can:

- View Guardian data for different time periods.
- Explore the root cause of any negative signals.
- Subscribe to topics that are critical to your digital property.

By default, all topic types are enabled for viewing in the Topics tab.

 
| Filter | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Revenue | Shows topics that have an impact on revenue. |
| Visits | Shows visit-related topics. |
| Open Time | Shows open time email-related topics. |
| Segments | Shows segment topics. |
| Recipe | Shows Einstein recipe-related topics. |
| Unknown Type | Shows topics with no specific affiliation to a predefined filter category. |
| Global | Shows topics that impact your entire digital property and aren’t restricted to a specific segment or campaign. |

1. To open the Guardian dashboard, click the purple **Guardian** shield.
2. Click the **Topics** tab.
3. (Optional) In the upper right corner of the page, adjust the time period.
4. To remove a topic type from view, click a type filter.
5. To view topic details, double-click a Guardian topic, or select a topic and click **View Detail**.
    
    The topic details page provides a graphical view of each topic metric, including counts, averages, and any detected signals within the selected time period.
6. To follow alerts for a specific topic, select the topic and click **Subscribe**.
    
    The Following column of the topic table indicates whether you’re following a topic. To stop following a topic, select it and click **Unsubscribe**.