diff --git a/app/core/Tracker.coffee b/app/core/Tracker.coffee
index 59a5aec7c..dda408a47 100644
--- a/app/core/Tracker.coffee
+++ b/app/core/Tracker.coffee
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {me} = require 'core/auth'
+AnalyticsLogEvent = require 'models/AnalyticsLogEvent'
 
 debugAnalytics = false
 
@@ -68,6 +69,10 @@ module.exports = class Tracker
       for integration in includeIntegrations
         context.integrations[integration] = true
     analytics?.track action, properties, context
+    
+    # Log internally too.  Will turn off external event logging when internal logging is sufficient.
+    event = new AnalyticsLogEvent event: action, properties: properties
+    event.save()
 
   trackTiming: (duration, category, variable, label, samplePercentage=5) ->
     # https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingTiming
diff --git a/app/models/AnalyticsLogEvent.coffee b/app/models/AnalyticsLogEvent.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7b631ef3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/models/AnalyticsLogEvent.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+CocoModel = require './CocoModel'
+
+module.exports = class AnalyticsLogEvent extends CocoModel
+  @className: 'AnalyticsLogEvent'
+  @schema: require 'schemas/models/analytics_log_event'
+  urlRoot: '/db/analytics.log.event'
diff --git a/app/schemas/models/analytics_log_event.coffee b/app/schemas/models/analytics_log_event.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..60705cd50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/schemas/models/analytics_log_event.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+c = require './../schemas'
+
+AnalyticsLogEventSchema = c.object {
+  title: 'Analytics Log Event'
+  description: 'Analytics event logs.'
+}
+
+_.extend AnalyticsLogEventSchema.properties,
+  created: c.date({title: 'Created', readOnly: true})
+  user: c.objectId(links: [{rel: 'extra', href: '/db/user/{($)}'}])
+  event: {type: 'string'}
+  properties: {type: 'object'}
+
+c.extendBasicProperties AnalyticsLogEventSchema, 'analytics.log.event'
+
+module.exports = AnalyticsLogEventSchema
diff --git a/server/analytics/AnalyticsLogEvent.coffee b/server/analytics/AnalyticsLogEvent.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a81b70c4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/analytics/AnalyticsLogEvent.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+mongoose = require 'mongoose'
+plugins = require '../plugins/plugins'
+
+AnalyticsLogEventSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
+  created:
+    type: Date
+    'default': Date.now
+}, {strict: false})
+
+module.exports = AnalyticsLogEvent = mongoose.model('analytics.log.event', AnalyticsLogEventSchema)
diff --git a/server/analytics/analytics_log_event_handler.coffee b/server/analytics/analytics_log_event_handler.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0c512ab74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/analytics/analytics_log_event_handler.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+AnalyticsLogEvent = require './AnalyticsLogEvent'
+Handler = require '../commons/Handler'
+
+class AnalyticsLogEventHandler extends Handler
+  modelClass: AnalyticsLogEvent
+  jsonSchema: require '../../app/schemas/models/analytics_log_event'
+  editableProperties: [
+    'event'
+    'properties'
+  ]
+
+  hasAccess: (req) ->
+    req.method in ['PUT', 'POST'] or req.user?.isAdmin()
+
+  makeNewInstance: (req) ->
+    instance = super(req)
+    instance.set('user', req.user._id)
+    instance
+
+module.exports = new AnalyticsLogEventHandler()
diff --git a/server/commons/mapping.coffee b/server/commons/mapping.coffee
index dc3b728f8..8bd7e4f7a 100644
--- a/server/commons/mapping.coffee
+++ b/server/commons/mapping.coffee
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 module.exports.handlers =
+  'analytics_log_event': 'analytics/analytics_log_event_handler'
   'analytics_users_active': 'analytics/analytics_users_active_handler'
   'article': 'articles/article_handler'
   'level': 'levels/level_handler'