Data Instrumentation

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samplitude
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samplitudeTeam Member
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I set up the Amplitude Destination in Segment - why am I not seeing any data in Amplitude?

   Amplitude’s Best Practices:  Segment customers / prospects must send data to Amplitude by calling “track”. Data will be visible after they track their first event. For Segment customers who are used to different naming conventions, the difference between an event property and user property is simply that Amplitude allows Segment customers to specify their own event properties and user properties. See Amplitude Help Center document to further understand the difference between the two types of properties.   

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samplitude
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3 years ago
samplitude
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samplitudeTeam Member
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What are the pros + cons of using Amplitude’s client-side bundled Segment integration? 

 What are the pros + cons of using Amplitude’s client-side bundled Segment integration?   ​​​​​​​Amplitude’s Best Practices:Pros:Adding Amplitude native SDKs adds extra tracking functionality, namely session tracking, and automatic user property tracking. Events that are logged within the same user session will be grouped together when viewing that user's stream on Amplitude Dashboard. This also allows for session length calculations on Amplitude's platform. The SDKs will also automatically record several user properties such as device type, operating system, and user agent. Here is a list of the user properties tracked automatically by our SDKs. Additional Segment Amplitude Integration Setting (in Advanced Settings) -- Track Session Events (disabled by default): If enabled, then the SDKs will automatically send [Amplitude] Start Session and [Amplitude] End Session events to mark the start and end of a user's mobile session. With our SDKs installed, you can also directly interact

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samplitude
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3 years ago
samplitude
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samplitudeTeam Member
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What settings should we enable in the Amplitude Destination for Page/Screen calls?

 What settings should we enable in the Amplitude Destination for Page/Screen calls?      Amplitude’s Best Practices:  For Web:  "Track Categorized Pages" is the most ideal setting to enable, but not all customers track a 'category' property. For Web, "Track All Pages" is the ideal setting as well, so all page calls are collapsed under a 'Loaded a Page' event in Amplitude. For Mobile:  Enable "Track All Pages" and Segment will send a "Viewed (Name) Screen" event - which is most ideal.  Most of the time, Segment/Amplitude customers have lower cardinality on mobile and it's helpful to break out each screen by name. Page Calls: Mutual customers oftentimes see events like 'Loaded a Page' and 'Viewed X Page' in Amplitude and get confused because those are not event names they recognize (e.g. they're looking for it among the events they track via Track calls). There is no equivalent in Segment's UI (Segment shows the raw page calls).  Mutual customers with

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samplitude
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3 years ago
samplitude
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samplitudeTeam Member
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How do we avoid sending “Viewed /-” or “Loaded a Page” events to Amplitude from Segment?

How do we avoid sending “Viewed /-” or “Loaded a Page” events to Amplitude? Our event type names are coming from Segment into Amplitude in a very unpredicted manner  - specifically for event type names.We have even maxed our event limit.  Sometimes this points to underlying issues within your Segment Amplitude Destination settings - specifically for event type names.This leads to noisy events in your Amplitude taxonomy (and can even max your event limit!), like this:  Amplitude’s Best Practice: Add the page’s URL as an event property rather than event name.  For Page/Screen call settings in Segment: it’s better to surface how Page and Screen calls are transformed via the integration and sent to Amplitude. Right now this is located within the Amplitude Destination settings (so you’ll need to click into the settings to read the description) or in Segment's documentation. You may also be noticing a relative of the same issue - maxing out event types: In this case, when an Amplitude

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samplitude
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3 years ago
samplitude
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Segment + Amplitude: Best Practices

Frequently Asked Questions:  How do we avoid sending “Viewed /-” or “Loaded a Page” events to Amplitude? What settings should we enable in the Amplitude Destination for Page/Screen calls? What is the difference between Segment’s Cloud Mode vs. Device Mode?  What are the pros + cons of using Amplitude’s client-side bundled Segment integration?  How do we set session in Amplitude while using Segment in Cloud Mode? I set up the Amplitude Destination in Segment - why am I not seeing any data in Amplitude? What is Amplitude’s definition of a Session?  Handy Resources: Note: for Segment Support: please contact your designated Segment Rep or Segment support (friends@segment.com)  Getting Started with Segment   Segment Tracking Plan (for all Segment customers) Introduction to Segment Guide  Segment/ Amplitude Developer Docs Segment Product Docs Segment Developer Docs Segment + Amplitude Recipes Maximize the ROI of your Data Management Platform | January 2021About the

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samplitude
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3 years ago
haoliu
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haoliuAmplitude Engineering
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Create/export taxonomy from your design mock - Figma Plugin

Do you...Hate using spreadsheet to create taxonomy? Can’t map between event name with the web/mobile page? Recently we released Amplitude Event Planner in Figma to VISUALIZE the whole taxonomy planning process! We would love to hear feedback from you! 

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Saish Redkar
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3 years ago
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john_amplitudeAmplitude Engineering
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Unreal SDK in Development!

Looking for questions, comments, and suggestions!Unreal is the one of the most popular engines for building games on consoles, PC, mobile, and VR. We’re making an effort to create an SDK plugin for it in the coming months so that game developers can add analytics in Unreal.For a beta release, we plan to support iOS with APIs in C++ and Blueprint, with support for Android during general release and other platforms further in the future.

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3 years ago
Amplitude Admin
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Amplitude AdminCommunity Manager
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JS SDK Instrumentation Example and Testing

If you are new to Amplitude and you are looking for a quick and easy-to-use example for how to instrument and test the JavaScript SDK on a web product, this is the right place!In order to make things easier to work with, we have created a very simple HTML file that has one button, which when you click it, will send an event to Amplitude. To test the Javascript SDK:  Download the attached file Open the file in a text editor and edit the API_KEY to the one from your project. The line with the API_KEY is marked in red in the screenshot below. The second red box contains the function that gets executed when the user clicks the button. In this case, we just show the current date when the users click on the button and send an event to Amplitude. Open the file in the browser, click the button and check if the event has been sent to your project  For the testing part, once you have your own project's API key, you can open this HTLM file with the Google Chrome browser, and click the butto

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
3 years ago

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