# Tracker Trackers maintain the state of a dialogue between the assistant and the user in the form of conversation sessions. To learn more about how to configure the session behavior, check out the docs on [Session configuration](https://legacy-docs-v1.rasa.com/1.10.18/core/domains/#session-config). ## `rasa.core.trackers.DialogueStateTracker`(_sender_id_, _slots_, _max_event_history=None_, _sender_source=None_) Maintains the state of a conversation. The field max_event_history will only give you these last events, it can be set in the tracker_store. ### `applied_events()` Returns all actions that should be applied - w/o reverted events. Return type `List[`Event`]` ### `as_dialogue()` Return a `Dialogue` object containing all of the turns. This can be serialised and later used to recover the state of this tracker exactly. Return type `Dialogue` ### `change_form_to`(_form_name_) Activate or deactivate a form Return type `None` ### `clear_followup_action()` Clears follow up action when it was executed. Return type `None` ### `copy()` Creates a duplicate of this tracker. Return type [`DialogueStateTracker`](https://legacy-docs-v1.rasa.com/1.10.18/api/tracker/#rasa.core.trackers.DialogueStateTracker) ### `current_slot_values()` Return the currently set values of the slots. Return type `Dict[`str`, `Any`]` ### `current_state`(_event_verbosity=_) Return the current tracker state as an object. Return type `Dict[`str`, `Any`]` ### `events_after_latest_restart()` Return a list of events after the most recent restart. Return type `List[`Event`]` ### `export_stories`(_e2e=False_, _include_source=False_) Dump the tracker as a story in the Rasa Core story format. Returns the dumped tracker as a string. Return type `str` ### `export_stories_to_file`(_export_path='debug.md'_) Dump the tracker as a story to a file. Return type `None` ### _classmethod_`from_dict`(_sender_id_, _events_as_dict_, _slots=None_, _max_event_history=None_) Create a tracker from dump. The dump should be an array of dumped events. When restoring the tracker, these events will be replayed to recreate the state. Return type [`DialogueStateTracker`](https://legacy-docs-v1.rasa.com/1.10.18/api/tracker/#rasa.core.trackers.DialogueStateTracker) ### `generate_all_prior_trackers()` Returns a generator of the previous trackers of this tracker. The resulting array is representing the trackers before each action. Return type `Generator`[ [`DialogueStateTracker`](https://legacy-docs-v1.rasa.com/1.10.18/api/tracker/#rasa.core.trackers.DialogueStateTracker), `None`, `None`]` ### `get_last_event_for`(_event_type_, _action_names_to_exclude=None_, _skip=0_) Gets the last event of a given type which was actually applied. ### Parameters - **event_type** – The type of event you want to find. - **action_names_to_exclude** – Events of type ActionExecuted which should be excluded from the results. Can be used to skip action_listen events. - **skip** – Skips n possible results before return an event. Returns event which matched the query or None if no event matched. Return type `Optional`[`Event`]` ### `get_latest_entity_values`(_entity_type_, _entity_role=None_, _entity_group=None_) Get entity values found for the passed entity type and optional role and group in latest message. If you are only interested in the first entity of a given type use next(tracker.get_latest_entity_values("my_entity_name"), None). If no entity is found None is the default result. ### Parameters - **entity_type** – the entity type of interest - **entity_role** – optional entity role of interest - **entity_group** – optional entity group of interest Returns Entity values. Return type `Iterator`[`str`]` ### `get_latest_input_channel()` Get the name of the input_channel of the latest UserUttered event. Return type `Optional`[`str`]` ### `get_slot`(_key_) Retrieves the value of a slot. Return type `Optional`[`Any`]` ### `idx_after_latest_restart()` Return the idx of the most recent restart in the list of events. If the conversation has not been restarted, `0` is returned. Return type `int` ### `init_copy()` Creates a new state tracker with the same initial values. Return type [`DialogueStateTracker`](https://legacy-docs-v1.rasa.com/1.10.18/api/tracker/#rasa.core.trackers.DialogueStateTracker) ### `is_paused()` State whether the tracker is currently paused. Return type `bool` ### `last_executed_action_has`(_name_, _skip=0_) Returns whether last ActionExecuted event had a specific name. ### Parameters - **name** – Name of the event which should be matched. - **skip** – Skips n possible results in between. Returns True if last executed action had name name, otherwise False. Return type `bool` ### `past_states`(_domain_) Generate the past states of this tracker based on the history. Return type `deque` ### `recreate_from_dialogue`(_dialogue_) Use a serialised Dialogue to update the trackers state. This uses the state as is persisted in a `TrackerStore`. If the tracker is blank before calling this method, the final state will be identical to the tracker from which the dialogue was created. Return type `None` ### `reject_action`(_action_name_) Notify active form that it was rejected. Return type `None` ### `replay_events()` Update the tracker based on a list of events. Return type `None` ### `set_form_validation`(_validate_) Toggle form validation. Return type `None` ### `set_latest_action_name`(_action_name_) Set latest action name and reset form validation and rejection parameters. Return type `None` ### `travel_back_in_time`(_target_time_) Creates a new tracker with a state at a specific timestamp. A new tracker will be created and all events previous to the passed time stamp will be replayed. Events that occur exactly at the target time will be included. Return type [`DialogueStateTracker`](https://legacy-docs-v1.rasa.com/1.10.18/api/tracker/#rasa.core.trackers.DialogueStateTracker) ### `trigger_followup_action`(_action_) Triggers another action following the execution of the current. Return type `None` ### `update`(_event_, _domain=None_) Modify the state of the tracker according to an `Event`. Return type `None` 👋 I can help you get started with Rasa and answer your technical questions.