Systems and methods for automatically creating and managing electronic data tables are disclosed. The method includes receiving a metric request descriptor from a client device, the metric request descriptor including at least information for creating a metric query and an identifier of an electronic data table; automatically generating a custom metric query based on the information for creating the metric query and one or more predefined metric templates; creating the electronic data table based on the identifier of the electronic data table received in the metric request descriptor; applying the custom metric query to a data store storing a plurality of event records; extracting metric data from the data store based on the custom metric query; and storing the metric data in the electronic data table.