Both tags and categories can be helpful in making events more discoverable within Amplitude, but which should you use? Anuj Sharma, Sr. Customer Success Architect at Amplitude, shares this distinction:
“Categories kind of restrict you to adding one category to each one of your events, but you can add multiple tags to those events.
So your tags could be based on your development team, could be based on sprint release cycles, or releases, a number of different tags that you can add, right? So using tags on top of your category makes it easier to filter those events.
You can filter by a category, add an add filter to it, filter by tags, and keep adding those filters on top of it. So categories and tags would be the best solution to finding the right event you need.“
This is a snippet from Tracking Plan Office Hours with Thora Gudfinnsdottir (Avo) and Anuj Sharma (Amplitude). They share best practices in event data design to help you get the data you need without blowing up your event volume.
