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Data (Beta) provides data planning and tracking that helps companies run on clean and consistent analytics by eliminating human error during the instrumentation process.

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Alexander Magnusson
Alexander MagnussonNew Member
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Messy Data Cleanup Hour #1: A handy Amplitude Data Cleanup checklist and list of tips
Messy Data Cleanup Hour #1: A handy Amplitude Data Cleanup checklist and list of tips

Alex Magnusson is a leading expert in the field of product analytics, specializing in helping companies leverage the power of Amplitude to make data-driven decisions. He is the co-founder and CEO of Magnusson Analytica, a consultancy that provides Amplitude implementation, training, and strategic guidance to clients worldwide. If you want 1:1 help and a free chat, book time with Alex here!In this Amplitude Messy Data Cleanup Hour, we covered the essential steps for maintaining clean, reliable, and actionable data in Amplitude. Including common challenges such as overwhelming event lists, inconsistent naming conventions, data validation, and the ongoing task of aligning tracking with evolving business objectives. For more help, and to chat with Alex and other users, join our Slack community!  Amplitude Data Cleanup ChecklistHere's a handy checklist to help you audit, clean, and govern your Amplitude data:I. Establish a Data-Driven Mindset:Build strong habits, data cleanup is an ongoing

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Alexander Magnusson
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Can I selectively delete or modify historical data on Amplitude?

Hi Amplitude Community, At the moment, it is not possible to selectively delete or modify historical events. Our current architecture is based on pre-aggregated sets by the hour, day, week and month for users and events. While this allows us to scale well, a limitation is that data is immutableThat being said, we have some options for specific use cases:You can use the Export API to pull all the data from their project, sanitize the data (remove properties), and then perform a Self Backfill and use Batch API to push events into a new Amplitude project. Please note that backfilling data will increase the event volume in your org, which may incur costs. Deleting the old project will not reduce the volume. Do you want just to drop certain data? Amplitude Data's drop filters feature allows you to remove specific event data from your charts at query time. These events are not deleted, and they can be restored to your charts simply by editing or deleting the drop filter. You can read more ab

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Welcome to the data planning and governance forum!

Learn, ask questions, or help others with planning and managing data in Amplitude. This is where you can ask and get feedback on questions such as: ✅ How does the environments section work with projects?✅ What is the difference between Taxonomy vs Govern vs Data?✅ Why are some events not showing up on my tracking plan?✅ How do I make an event Inactive after it's been Deleted?✅ What does it mean for an event to have a warning sign that says invalid x% of the time? Helpful resources: ❓Get started with Amplitude Data: what is Amplitude Data, best practices, working with branches, a typical workflow in Amplitude Data❓Building a tracking plan❓Advanced Data topics: lookup tables, integrating Jira, transformations and derived properties❓Amplitude Academy course: Getting Started with Data ❓Amplitude Academy course: Instrumenting your Data Taxonomy❓Amplitude Academy course: Iterating on a Data-Informed CultureStill have questions? Post them here! 

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Mario OportoNew Member
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Multiple Events inside a Custom Event

I currently don’t have access to custom events.I was wondering if I can choose multiple eventsFor exampleI have current events that are being tracked and I want them to sit under an umbrellaThe Title should be Document ManagementEvents List would be:Document RegisterUpload DocumentLinking DocumentsEssentially I want to map every action that happens inside the Custom Event and then be able to filter for it on a Chart Report.Is this possible? As I understand in Data>Event the tags and categories are only internal.

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Migrating Between Accounts

My company just went through an acquisition/carve out and we need to import data from the current amplitude instance to a fresh one. The challenge I’m running into is how to handle the crazy amount of data. The json exports are far larger than the 20mb upload limits, and each month is hundreds of mb. We need to backfill a year of data. Has anyone reliably figured this out or have any tips? I would love if Amplitude could provide more assistance than just the data import articles. 

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Faeez M. NoorNew Member
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Remove Subfolders in Spaces

Hi everyone,I am trying to organize my Dashboard better. Created some subfolders that was not needed, but the action menu does not have a delete button (just Rename and Copy Link).How to delete subfolders in Amplitude? Is this due to my limited access?  

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Javier NazarioNew Member
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Anonymous Users to Auth User in Sign Up/Sign In

We're losing user journey tracking when anonymous users switch devices during our sign-up flow. Our typical flow: anonymous user visits homepage on desktop → clicks Sign Up → redirects to Auth0 for registration → user verifies email on mobile (creating a new anonymous user ID) → returns to desktop to complete sign-up and select subscription → receives authID upon conversion. The problem is that the final authID only captures events from the device where conversion occurred, losing all the valuable anonymous user behavior from earlier steps and other devices. We need a solution to stitch together the complete user journey across devices and maintain the connection between pre-conversion anonymous events and post-conversion authenticated user data, especially given our external Auth0 authentication flow that creates tracking gaps.

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Scott KieronskiNew Member
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Not seeing the new ad sources (X, LinkedIn, TikTok) in Data -> Sources

Does anyone else have this issue?

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jkreizNew Member
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Bug: 'Mark all as read' in Alerts not working

 Clicking ‘Mark all 7 as read’ is not doing anything to clear my alertsMacBook Air 14-inch M4macOS: 15.5Browser: Chrome Version 136.0.7103.114

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idalboNew Member
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Snowflake key-pair authentication keeps failing and data export errors

I recently switch authentication for the user exporting data from Amplitude to Snowflake from username password to key-pair authentication. I follow the instruction on screen, but every time I switch from pw to key-pair, the export fails with the following codeErrorsError Type: SnowflakeTime: Invalid DateTimeMessage: JWT token is invalid. [143cbb72-85dc-4e2c-8bc7-fef3a0d42fd4]The login to Snowflake succeeds (I checked the login history table there). Also, if I switch back to password auth it works as expected. Given the very small degree of customization allowed here, I don’t know what might be happening and how to solve this.

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realitybeyonddreamsNew Member
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production houses in islamabad

Reality Beyond Dreams is a team of impact producers. At the heart of every film we produce, and every campaign that we design, are the core principles of Social Impact Entertainment. We are dedicated to creating cinematic projects that promote https://realitybeyonddreams.com/

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Bilge KilicNew Member
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Best Practices for Switching Amplitude Projects in a Multi-Country Mobile App (Post-Country Selection)

Hi everyone, I’m working on adding Amplitude to a single mobile application serving multiple countries. Inside the app, users are shown a country selector panel (e.g., Egypt, Turkey, UAE, etc.), which determines the localized experience they will receive — each country has its own UX flow and logic.The client wants to track users from Egypt and Turkey only.We considered using separate Amplitude projects for Egypt and Turkey as a way to isolate data between markets — but this is just one approach we’re evaluating, and we’re open to other suggestions if there are cleaner or more scalable alternatives.The challenge:The country selection occurs after the app is launched. Some users never explicitly select a country, meaning we can’t rely on an event likecountry_selected alone. We want to ensure clean separation of data by country without losing early-session activity.Our questions:Is it recommended (or supported) to dynamically switch Amplitude projects at runtime based on user-selected co

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Michael StawarzNew Member
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Is it possible to set up custom display values for enum properties?

Hey,when setting up the `enum` event property, is it possible to assign a different display value to each of the enum values?So let’s say my enum is defined like this enum property Character  “values” → character1, character2, character3  “display values” character1 = “Mickey Mouse”, character2 = “Johnny Bravo”, character3 = “Mandalorian” I’d like to use “display values” in the charts, instead of the IDs that are usually the non-user-friendly UUIDs.

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Tushar SinghNew Member
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Updating existing User IDs with a new values

I been using amplitude for a while for my Client Portal. I used to set user Ids as the ID I had in the DB. We also have UUID in the DB and want to use that for user id. How do I update all the existing User Ids with their UUIDs?

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Abhishek RaghuramanNew Member
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REST API - Listing Metadata

How would we go about using the API to list metadata on all available Spaces, Dashboards, Charts etc. in a given Amplitude instance? I do not see any documentation around such API endpoints, though I do see the app making graphQL calls to retrieve this internally (for instance - https://app.amplitude.com/t/graphql/org/12345?q=PaginatedSpaceItems). I’m unable to use those endpoints with the api_key:secret_key basic auth though. Are these accessible over a different auth mechanism? Any hints on this front would be much appreciated. 

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Error Setting Up Snowflake Destination, despite successful test

Any idea how to troubleshoot this issue? I am trying to set up snowflake as an event destination, Everything works as expected until I get to the finish step of the integration. When I click “Finish” I get a non descriptive error message saying there was an error when trying to initiate the export. When I exit the flow, there is no destination set up in the destinations tab.   

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Ampli CLI pull problem (React Native SDK)

Hello! Our app is a react-native project and we already get some analitycs by amplitude about year. Now I want to improve amplitude usage for our project and I would like to use Ampli CLI for our app.  If I try to executeampli pullI get the next warningWARNING You have yet to create a source in your account. Log into https://data.amplitude.com/ to create one.But in our app we have one source React native SDK with name ReactNative. Connected.Please tell me, is it possible to use ampli cli for react native project or maybe something wrong?

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JAEGWON RONew Member
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DELETING A SPACE

HelloI'm Roh Jae-Gwon.There is a SPACE that I created by mistake, and I would like to ask if it can be deleted.The SPACE you want to delete is the link below.https://app.amplitude.com/analytics/Hanatour/space/uv6hdy0t/allPlease check even if you are busy.Thank you. 

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Nooruz zamanNew Member
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unable to set user property

I have installed Amplitude via Google Tag Manager and looks like the user ID is not being set. I have installed 2 tag from GTM.Tag type as init Tag type as setUserId  Still say Anonymous user

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MauricioNew Member
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Create and Event for When the Same Event Triggers 2+ Times Within 5 Minutes

Hi, I was wondering how can I create an event to track “Loops” for the same event, meaning that the same event triggers within 5 minutes of the first.

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Reference event timestamp in a derived property?

Is there any way to reference the time of an event in a derived property formula? I am trying to create a derived property that calculates the difference in time between a date in a user property (the users account creation date) and the date of the event being measured. I have gotten it to work using the TODAY() function, but I can’t seem to find any way to reference the event time itself. TODAY() only works if looking at the last N days, but I can’t use it to create historical trends. ThanksDIVIDE( MINUS( TODAY() , DATE_TO_LONG( REGEXEXTRACT( PROPERTY( 'first_insert_date', 'user' ), "^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}" ) ) ), 86400000) 

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Items in Platform

Hi all, does anyone know how to remove “items” in Platform? Right now it is quite cluttered. We only would like to have e.g. (none), iOS, Android. Could not find that option in the UI.Could we try to delete the users that “had” those “platforms” and would that remove the items?

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Atsuyoshi YasudaNew Member
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How can We check EU endpoitn user data?

My understanding is if tracking user is EU resindency, we need to send endpoint for EU.But I cannot see the data of EU residency in dashboard or anywhere else.First of all, is my understanding is correct?Secound, if correct how can I check that?

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How to manage the TEAM label

I’m an admin and I want to manage the list of available teams (e.g., add, edit or remove teams)  but I cannot find how to in the new UI or the old UI. Currently, I’m stuck with the TEAM labels that we have.   

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Mike HermanNew Member
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Copying custom events from project to project

I have dev and prod Amplitude projects for both a web app and a mobile app. (4 projects)I see theres a way to import and export the schema between projects.The mobile app will use custom events to refine autocapture element interactions by their target accessibility identifer for easier use.   Web will use visual labeling.Is there a way to copy over custom events and labeled event definitions from one project (dev) to another (prod)? 

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