On my web application I do not want to create the events via engineering and want all the events to be auto captured. Is there any way that can be done?
My web application has multiple page and want to create event creation in some of them and NOT all. Later these events can be used in visualisation/chart creation in Amplitude.
Hey
The very design of the Amplitude platform is making sure we are intentional in our instrumentation to answer the questions which have the most impact, rather than auto-tracking every possible event which happens.
Here are some pretty good posts by Jeffrey and Adam on this very concept and why Amplitude doesn’t support in auto-tracking -
https://amplitude.com/blog/why-we-didnt-build-auto-tracking-for-amplitude
https://amplitude.com/blog/autotrack-is-bad
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the details
You are right, the dependencies introduced can cause quite a pain in the instrumentation workflow.
I recently came across Amplitude’s Iteratively docs which try to address to some extent on how instrumentation can be more streamlined and integrated with existing engineering workflows using a git like methodology. It doesn’t completely eliminate the dependency or bring in the total self-serve aspect, but worth looking at it. Hope that helps.
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