Before you start this activity, you should have already:
Outputs are mParticle’s term for the services we forward your data to. Outputs are also referred to as “integrations”. Outputs come in two types: “event”, and “audience”. Audiences are covered in the next part of this guide. This section will show you how to set up an event output.
mParticle has over a hundred event outputs, and the connection process for each is similar. This tutorial creates a connection to Amplitude as an example. You can follow the same steps with a different output, or create a free Amplitude account to follow along exactly.
Navigate to the Directory in the sidebar. The Directory lists all the integrations offered by mParticle. Select Amplitude.
From the Amplitude directory page, select Add Amplitude to Setup. And choose Output Event.
Completing the previous step takes us to Setup > Outputs and opens the output configuration dialog for Amplitude. You’ll see that the only credential you need is an API Key.
This is available from the Amplitude dashboard, on your project’s Settings page.
Now that you have both an input and an output set up, it’s time to connect them:
From Connections > Connect, and select the input you’ve already set up.
Click Connect Output.
Select your Amplitude configuration.
Complete the Connection Settings. These will be different for each output. Refer to the documentation for the specific output for help completing the connection settings. For this example, you can leave the default values as they are. When you’re ready, set the status to Active and click Save.
Once you have enabled the connection, open up the development build of your app again and create a few more events. Each output service will have different ways of displaying the data it receives. For Amplitude, you can create a Real-Time Activity dashboard to check incoming data.
If you don’t see your data arriving in the output service, there are a few things you can try.
Start by checking the “Outbound” view of the Live Stream, setting the filters to show messages forwarded to the output you need to troubleshoot:
If you see messages in the outbound Live Stream, but none in the output service:
Navigate to Activity > System Alerts and see if there are any errors noted against the output you want to troubleshoot. The error type may give you a clue as to what is wrong.
If you don’t see any messages in the outbound Live Stream, then mParticle is not attempting to send any data to the output service. Some possible reasons for this include:
Not all outputs support every platform or accept every event type. The Directory shows a list of available platforms and supported event types for each output. Make sure the data you are trying to send is supported.
mParticle allows you to filter your data for each output. Check the Data Filter to make sure you haven’t turned off the data points you’re trying to send.
By now you should be successfully forwarding data to at least one event output. Some additional resources you might want to look at include:
Next up, you will learn about the second category of mParticle data by creating an audience.
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