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Amplitude Admin
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Amplitude AdminCommunity Manager
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How do you send Google Analytics data to Amplitude?

You can send data from Google Analytics through our backfill process using the Batch API or GCS import. Before you get started, it’s recommended that you work internally to gain clarity on your KPIs and north star metric. Our North Star Playbook is a great place to start. Migration steps are: Set up your Source  Complete your Tracking Plan QA your Tracking Plan Implement tracking Send dev data into an Amplitude dev project QA the data Send production data into Amplitude production project Additional Resources  Common Questions About Migrating From GA to Amplitude How to Migrate from Google Analytics to Amplitude Analytics

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Amplitude Admin
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1 year ago
Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
Amplitude AdminCommunity Manager
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When should you set the user ID if your product, app, or website has no registration flow?

As a general rule, the user ID should be set for registered users. This reconciliation happens when a user logs in or signs up. If you don’t have a registration feature, what you can do is track the device ID so that Amplitude can track the unique customer profile on the device ID. Note that a unique device ID can be generated if they’re using different devices or if they go to an incognito browser (because it’s tracking a different cookie.) In summary, if your product doesn’t have a registration flow, you can create a device ID, and Amplitude can create different user profiles based on that device ID. If you opt to not set a user ID because you don’t have registration funnels in your product and if you are using one of our SDKs, then Amplitude will generate a device ID that will ultimately populate our Amplitude ID. In this instance, every new device will be associated to a new user profile. If a registration flow is available and if we receive user IDs, then we’re able to reconcile m

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
1 year ago
Amplitude Admin
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Amplitude AdminCommunity Manager
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How do you check if a user ID has been set?

Using the top navigation bar, click the feature ‘User Look-Up.’ This is where you can get a live stream of events tracked in the last 24h. Select a specific user, and you’ll see the user profile, user ID, amplitude ID, and all the device IDs that Amplitude has seen, including other information (i.e.: demographics, SDKs, when we first saw the user, live event stream, etc.) ​​If you see a User ID, it's because it has already been set. If the value is null, the User ID has not been set.There’s also a raw version that you can access for debugging purposes by toggling to ‘Raw.Best practices for setting user IDs are available in our Help Center under identify your users, along with instructions to look up event data for individual users.

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Amplitude Admin
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1 year ago
alex.ho
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alex.hoTeam Member
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Recap of our March Implementation Office Hour 🛠️

Thank you for joining the office hour today! Here’s the link to our demo instance, where you can put what you learned to the test using AmpliTunes data. We’re working on answers to your questions and will post them to our Community in the coming weeks. Here are a few highlights:  How do user properties apply to an event? How do you keep your product data in the EU? What are your options if you mostly deal with anonymous users? Can Amplitude track marketing attribution? How do you import events from an existing database? How do you set GDPR-compliant user IDs? Do you need to send a time-stamp with Amplitude events? How can you break down your users by age? How do you test that Amplitude is set up correctly on our website? What do PLG leaders typically connect Amplitude to? When should you use “Array” vs. “Enum” as a property type in your Tracking Plan? Can you embed dashboards into another web app? Can you share dashboards with an external viewer but not give them

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alex.ho
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1 year ago
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Nicolas HNew Member
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[BUG] Ampli generated code does not compile

Steps to reproduce :A user property named:“Has a GPay something”It will generate:hasAgPaySomething: Boolean? = null,as parameter, but will try to use:*(if (hasAGPaySomething != null)and therefore it doesn’t compile.It can be reproduced using Android and iOS SDKs.Is it the good place to report such issue? 

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Jeremie Gluckman
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1 year ago
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Mion Nara
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Funnel : Data range and conversion window

Hi,Could you tell me about the conversion window and date range in the funnel chart?Does the date range apply to STEP1 or the entire funnel? For example, if I set up the following:Date range: January 1 - January 31Conversion window: 60 daysIs a user who generated STEP1 on January 1 and reached the final step on February 2 considered to have converted? Thank you.

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timothy-permutable
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timothy-permutableSuper Helper
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Google Analytics to Amplitude Migration Guide

I’ve written this high-level outline on how to migrate from GA to Amplitude. This is the process I follow with clients and perhaps could be useful to somebody else!https://timothydaniell.medium.com/how-to-migrate-from-google-analytics-to-amplitude-analytics-661bb180460

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1 year ago
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Igor MarkovicNew Member
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Can Amplitude handle complex queries as data source?

Over the last couple of days I run a handful of test when creating a data source connection from Snowflake.Amongst them, a trial to have a “complex” query. In my case, this is a WITH query with a handful of CTEs, some of them with WHERE clauses, other with JOINs.Interestingly, the query passed the test, but now the ingestion seems to be going nowhere.Admittedly, we are talking about ~5M rows, that might play a role, but it has now been more than three hours since I defined the data source. Also worth mentioning, I see no Ingestion jobs listed at all.A few days ago I did a test connection over a dataset of about ~1M rows and it had completed it in no time, and by a couple minutes I could see multiple ingestion jobs running.Hence the doubt that maybe Amplitude doesn’t like this type of queries.Also, since this is meant to be a time-based sync, and I guess it’s fair to assume that the queries are being templated with something akin to Jinja post first ingestion to add the WHERE timestamp

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Amplitude Admin
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1 year ago
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edwinsevlarajNew Member
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How do you track custom url parameters through Amplitude?

We wish to track our own custom parameters.For example:In the case of a user entering the website for the first time through this url “test.com/home?utm_source=foo&ad_id=bar” Amplitude would capture utm_source, which is “foo”, as his initial_utm_source. But wouldn’t capture ad_id=bar at all. How can we setup Amplitude in a way that ad_id gets captured as well as initial_ad_id gets set.

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Saish Redkar
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1 year ago
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jkeilsonExperienced
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Server Side User Attribute Update show up as users?

Hi, we are making server side updates for users in Amplitude since there is an action that occurs outside of their session (subscription start).  Does this get reported as user events?  I see events showing up with platform as ‘none’ when looking at all active users based on active events.  

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dmazzaNew Member
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Semantic versioning with event properties

I have an event property called `deployable_version`. It provides to the version of the web app or native app that’s generating the pageview for my site. I am sending it as a string, which doesn’t support semver ordering, i.e. where 1.9 < 1.11.I looked through the datatypes available in the Converter Config but I did not see anything that would allow this kind of sorting. I also saw Data Planning but the types available there also do not seem to be much use here. Is something like this possible for event properties?

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
1 year ago
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wenshawNew Member
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Customer.io integration

Hi!  I’ve been testing this integration and it worked for 1 hour and broke. No setting was changed. The integration was quite straightforward so I’m not sure what went wrong. The only problem might be that my customer.io account is using EU data center, but Amplitude keeps sending data to US endpoint. However Customer.io rep mentioned the data will be routed to EU endpoint automatically. 

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
1 year ago
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VishalConversationalist
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[JavaScript]: Is there a way to add callback on apmlitude.getInstance().setUserProperties?

I want to trigger few events just after setting the user properties but setUserProperties is not a promise and other events can’t wait until the user properties api call ends.

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
1 year ago
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ksnag29New Member
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Events sent to wring API key/Amplitude Org

We have 2 amplitude accounts/orgs: 1 for events in production builds(from App store) and 1 to track and test events on test-builds.After updating from production builds(from App store) to test-builds we find that test-builds(from test flight) still report events to the production org on Amplitude even though the API key is being updated to that of the different org.Expected behaviour:Events on test-builds are reported to a different org in amplitude once the API key is changed in the update.Actual behaviour:Events from both builds(test and production) are reported to the same org with 2 different device IDs depending on version of the app in use.Note: the device ID is different for the events reported from the same device depending on the version of the app in use.Has anyone else encountered this before, and have you found a fox to this?

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1 year ago
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unodewaalNew Member
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Source Attribution from Google

I’m struggling to get Source referral data from Google. I saw this question here:  But does that mean that Amplitude does not come with Google referral attribution out of the box? We’re also using the JS snippet with a mix of server side events.  

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Amplitude Admin
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1 year ago
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adam12Conversationalist
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Export user list from multiple days

 Hi team,  I am trying to download the list of users that occurred in this entire 30d period. I’m only able to click “download users” one by one… how would I export the entire list of users from this time period all at once?

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isinahumNew Member
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Missing events during January

Hi!I don’t have blocked events, but I don’t know what happened during January: we lost a lot of data about some users in Amplitude (I can’t see a lot of events that happened during January for some users). The events were sent via Segment and in another platform for analytics (June) we can see those missing events, so I know Segment is not the problem, does anyone know how to fix this, to bring those events to Amplitude and to make sure something like this never happens again?

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Amplitude Admin
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1 year ago
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Why Platform and Country values not appear when using NodeJS SDK (NextJS)?

Previously when I tested using Browser SDK the Platform and Country values are appear automatically. But when I try to implement using NodeJS SDK (I’m using Node Ampli Wrapper) the values was not appear. This also happens with Amplitude Event Explorer (Chrome Extension), it doesn’t work when using NodeJS SDK while using Browser SDK is works.  

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amplitudeuser56New Member
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Missing events in data tab

Hi!I need some help viewing events in the data tab. We’re sending over new events but we’re not able to see them for one of our projects. When I examine properties of this event in the properties section of the data tab, I do see the event mentioned but for whatever reason I’m not seeing it in the events section of the data tab or use it when creating a chart. We are also well under the limits for new event types and properties, and I do see these events in a different project that’s meant for other envs.Just want to see if there is something that can be done to see these events  

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
1 year ago
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Kseniya SinyakovaNew Member
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Requests to https://api.amplitude.com/ being blocked by CORS policy

Hello!We’ve recently come across an issue with missing event data from a large group of our users.One of our users agreed to record a HAR file of their browser session for us to investigate and it shows that requests to Amplitude are being blocked by CORS policy. Here is a bunch of requests to Amplitude from the user’s browser session log, all - without a response from the server. The encountered error, according to the user’s Console log, is: Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://api.amplitude.com/' from origin 'https://lm.rt.ru' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.api.amplitude.com/:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED The user is using desktop Chrome 93.0.4577.82 browser on Microsoft Windows 10.0 and a VPN tool to connect to our resource. We were not able to reproduce the same error with the missing Access-Control-Allow-Origin header under similar surroundings (OS, browser and VPN tool). We are using Ampl

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Denis Holmes
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1 year ago
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Igor MarkovicNew Member
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Importing non-events disguised as events from Snowflake causes error.

If the title makes you scratch your head, fear not, I scratched mine so much it hurts. Also, I am as new as it gets to Amplitude, so I might be missing something really basic. All our marketing spend, coming from a dozen or so partners is stored in Snowflake, where it is also harmonised to our in-house tracking setup. It is not event-like by nature, but I was asked to try to bring it to Amplitude nonetheless, so I tried to make it appear as event-like as possible.Below my attempt, as simple as pretending all our costs pertain to one user, mr. string-zero. CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW a_db.a_schema.a_view_exposed_to_amplitudeAS SELECT '0' AS user_id, to_timestamp_ntz(a_date_field) AS ts, date_part(epoch_millisecond, a_date_field::timestamp) AS epoch, 'costs_per_cid' AS event_type, object_construct('cid', cost_token, 'clicks',clicks, 'usd_costs', costs, 'impressions', impressions) AS event_properties, object_construct() AS user_propertiesFROM a_db.a_schema.a_cost_table;All went we

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Saish Redkar
Expert
1 year ago
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ivyNew Member
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funnel chart as a percentage not number only

Can I see each funnel chart as a percentage not number only on chart even when I don’t click?I know I can see them on table below chart, but I wanna see that on chart 

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Saish Redkar
Expert
1 year ago
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haoyuanConversationalist
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Why my events get disappeared

Hi, I posted some new events through HTTP API 2 days ago and made some charts for these events like this. It works fine, but when I look at the dashboard today, all the events I posted 2 days ago count become 0 in the charts and I also can’t find them in user stream. However, I can still see them in data (All the events started with ‘first’).Does anyone know about this issue? Since I made dashboards for these events, I can make sure that these events are posted successfully.

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kharron-vyprNew Member
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Reduced eps reason with 'Too many devices with the same user ID.'

HelloWe’ve recently started to trial Amplitude in our latest iOS release. We have four projects setup as environments and on a daily basis we’re looking at our Development environment as we build out our features which has been working well. From today, I’ve been unable to review any events on our User Look-Up after refreshing, logging out and clearing all of my chrome cache and logging back in. I’ve also tried this on Safari. I’ve worked out from looking into the Chrome Debugger Network view that I’ve exceeded the a quota.{"reduced_eps_reason":" Too many devices with the same user ID.","code":429,"exceeded_daily_quota_users":{},"throttled_events":[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29],"throttled_users":{"kelvin.harron@vyprco.com":2},"error":"Too many requests for some devices and users","eps_threshold":2}I have two questions.How do I prevent this from happening? Can I clear out this user and reset the data? I log into different devices and si

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
1 year ago
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chrishNew Member
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A user property is not removed/updated on an event when a null or undefined value is passed in, why is this?

Hi, I wanted to clarify some behavior I’m seeing in our Amplitude events.I’m looking at a user’s event stream and see that for their events they have a user property, let’s just say it’s called name and it has a value of “Chris”.  Then I use the Amplitude SDK to log another event, something like thisamplitudeClient.logEvent('Changed name', {user_properties: { 'name': undefined }}); I notice that in this event, the user property will still show up as “Chris” instead of being nullified or removed. I was wondering why this is the case and how to remove user properties if they are undefined/null. Would I need to use the Identify API to explicitly remove the property? 

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