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Introduction

Mixpanel is a business analytics service and tracks user interactions with web and mobile applications and provides tools for targeted communication with them. Its tool set contains in-app A/B tests and user survey forms. Data collected is used to build custom reports and measure user engagement and retention. This plugin will extract raw event-level data from Mixpanel that can be further transformed and enriched with other data sources.

Use case(s)

  • Retrieve raw events data from Mixpanel service

User Storie(s)

  • As a data pipeline developer, I should be able to retrieve raw Mixpanel events data for specified start and end date so that I can enrich and transform raw data for further analysis
  • As a data pipeline developer, I should be able to specify API secret to authenticate the export request
  • As a data pipeline developer, I should be able to see all the errors while fetching the raw events data from Mixpanel so that I can review and fix those export issues
  • As a data pipeline developer, I should be able to 
  • issues 

Plugin Type

  •  Batch Source
  •  Batch Sink 
  •  Real-time Source
  •  Real-time Sink
  •  Action
  •  Post-Run Action
  •  Aggregate
  •  Join
  •  Spark Model
  •  Spark Compute

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  • Mixpanel only supports batch source so there will not be any streaming source for Mixpanel
  • Data export API always returns data in JSON format.
  • API details provide best practices around API usage 

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