Send a test event

Now your pipeline is up and running, we can send a simple page_view event to it to validate that it is working.

Using cURL

Send a simple request using cURL from your terminal. This example is a typical page_view event, which has been taken from this website.

The example will also send a sample "failed event" (a custom product_view event that will fail due to an appropriate schema not being available to validate against) so that you can get a better understanding of how bad events are generated and what they look like.

curl 'https://{{COLLECTOR_URL}}/com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow/tp2' \
   -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8' \
   -H 'Cookie: _sp=305902ac-8d59-479c-ad4c-82d4a2e6bb9c' \
   --data-raw '{"schema":"iglu:com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow/payload_data/jsonschema/1-0-4","data":[{"e":"pv","url":"/docs/open-source-quick-start/quick-start-installation-guide-on-aws/send-test-events-to-your-pipeline/","page":"Send test events to your pipeline - Snowplow Docs","refr":"https://docs.snowplow.io/","tv":"js-2.17.2","tna":"spExample","aid":"docs-example","p":"web","tz":"Europe/London","lang":"en-GB","cs":"UTF-8","res":"3440x1440","cd":"24","cookie":"1","eid":"4e35e8c6-03c4-4c17-8202-80de5bd9d953","dtm":"1626182778191","cx":"eyJzY2hlbWEiOiJpZ2x1OmNvbS5zbm93cGxvd2FuYWx5dGljcy5zbm93cGxvdy9jb250ZXh0cy9qc29uc2NoZW1hLzEtMC0wIiwiZGF0YSI6W3sic2NoZW1hIjoiaWdsdTpjb20uc25vd3Bsb3dhbmFseXRpY3Muc25vd3Bsb3cvd2ViX3BhZ2UvanNvbnNjaGVtYS8xLTAtMCIsImRhdGEiOnsiaWQiOiI0YTU2ZjQyNy05MTk2LTQyZDEtOWE0YS03ZjRlNzk2OTM3ZmEifX1dfQ","vp":"863x1299","ds":"848x5315","vid":"3","sid":"87c18fc8-2055-4ec4-8ad6-fff64081c2f3","duid":"5f06dbb0-a893-472b-b61a-7844032ab3d6","stm":"1626182778194"},{"e":"ue","ue_px":"eyJzY2hlbWEiOiJpZ2x1OmNvbS5zbm93cGxvd2FuYWx5dGljcy5zbm93cGxvdy91bnN0cnVjdF9ldmVudC9qc29uc2NoZW1hLzEtMC0wIiwiZGF0YSI6eyJzY2hlbWEiOiJpZ2x1OmNvbS5teV9jb21wYW55L3Byb2R1Y3Rfdmlldy9qc29uc2NoZW1hLzEtMC0wIiwiZGF0YSI6eyJpZCI6IjVOMFctUEwwVyIsImN1cnJlbnRfcHJpY2UiOjQ0Ljk5LCJkZXNjcmlwdGlvbiI6IlB1cnBsZSBTbm93cGxvdyBIb29kaWUifX19","tv":"js-2.17.2","tna":"spExample","aid":"docs-example","p":"web","tz":"Europe/London","lang":"en-GB","cs":"UTF-8","res":"3440x1440","cd":"24","cookie":"1","eid":"542a79d3-a3b8-421c-99d6-543ff140a56a","dtm":"1626182778193","cx":"eyJzY2hlbWEiOiJpZ2x1OmNvbS5zbm93cGxvd2FuYWx5dGljcy5zbm93cGxvdy9jb250ZXh0cy9qc29uc2NoZW1hLzEtMC0wIiwiZGF0YSI6W3sic2NoZW1hIjoiaWdsdTpjb20uc25vd3Bsb3dhbmFseXRpY3Muc25vd3Bsb3cvd2ViX3BhZ2UvanNvbnNjaGVtYS8xLTAtMCIsImRhdGEiOnsiaWQiOiI0YTU2ZjQyNy05MTk2LTQyZDEtOWE0YS03ZjRlNzk2OTM3ZmEifX1dfQ","vp":"863x1299","ds":"848x5315","vid":"3","sid":"87c18fc8-2055-4ec4-8ad6-fff64081c2f3","duid":"5f06dbb0-a893-472b-b61a-7844032ab3d6","refr":"https://docs.snowplow.io/","url":"/docs/open-source-quick-start/quick-start-installation-guide-on-aws/send-test-events-to-your-pipeline/","stm":"1626182778194"}]}'