Exposure tracking through segment

@Florent Vilmart thanks for writing in about this. I’ve shared your question with the technical support team to look into this further.

Hello @Florent Vilmart  thank you for reaching out!

May I know what the current concerns are with the $Exposure event that is being tracked? What do you mean by “how we can track those events properly”? What is currently not working?

If helpful to get you started with Segment and Amplitude Experiment there is a section in the documentation that walks over how to implement with Segment: https://www.docs.developers.amplitude.com/experiment/sdks/javascript-sdk/#integrations. 

Hi @eddie.gaona ! Thanks for the quick response! I see that doc now.

This actually works, as long as we provided the payload with flag_key and variant.

Should we only use exposure or can we use `identify(“[Experiment] my_flag”, “variant”)` as well?

Hello @Florent Vilmart thank you for reaching back out!

According to the documentation only $Exposure event is needed and Amplitude will fill in the user properties from the Experiment. If you have access to an Experiment playground I would recommend testing this out for yourself.

SegmentExposureTrackingProvider:

class SegmentExposureTrackingProvider implements ExposureTrackingProvider {
    private analytics: Analytics;
    constructor(analytics: Analytics) {
        this.analytics = analytics;
    }
    track(exposure: Exposure) {
        this.analytics.track('$exposure', exposure);
    }
}

The Assignment event sets the user properties of the Experiment and then when the Exposure event is triggered the user properties from the Assignment event will carry over.  

Yes, I’ve tried it and it appears to be working properly. But you can also fill user properties by calling identify. I wonder if the `$exposure` was triggering different mechanisms or if calling

```identify(userId, { [“[Experiment] my_flag”]: “control” })```

is equivalent

Got it! Thanks for the answer!