What is the best way to track the user agent?

Hi, Amplitude does not track the browser (user agent) by default. What is the best way of doing that? I imagine just setting the plain user agent string into a user property might end up insufficient. Esp. when later trying to split it up into the actual browser (e.g. chrome, edge etc.) and exact versions etc. Any recommendations?

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dangrainger

Hi kornelius. In our setup we grab the user agent string using a little javascript in GTM, then pass the value as a user property in the Amplitude tag (Marketing Browser SDK). If you need to do anything with the value strings afterwards, you can use Derived Properties (https://help.amplitude.com/hc/en-us/articles/5874857623707-Derived-properties-Add-new-event-and-user-properties-retroactively) if you’re on the Enterprise plan. If you don’t have access to these, an alternative approach would be to manipulate the values ahead of sending them to user properties in the Amplitude events.

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