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Tracking events with BDP Cloud

Limits

Please note that BDP Cloud pipelines by default have an event volume cap of 60 events per second and a total of 80m events per month.

Instrumenting the web tracker in your application​

  • Copy the JavaScript code snippet from the BDP Cloud Getting Started section.
  • Paste the tracking code into the page source <head> section of your application and deploy the changes.
  • Your pipeline should now capture events from your application.

Instrumenting the web tracker via Google Tag Manager​

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  • Copy the JavaScript code snippet from the BDP Cloud Snowplow console.
  • Navigate to the Google Tag Manager account you wish to instrument tracking to
  • Create a new Custom HTML tag and paste the Javascript snippet into the tag
  • Set it to fire on 'All Pages' or a trigger of your choosing
  • You can preview your tag to send some events into Try Snowplow before publishing it
  • Your pipeline should now capture events from your application

Using other Snowplow trackers​

You can also use the Snowplow iOS and Android mobile trackers or instrument tracking on any other supported platform. For a full list of supported trackers, check out our Sources documentation.

Understanding Snowplow data​

Take a look at the full list of properties you can expect in your data.

Custom events & entities​

You can also create your own custom events & entities using the Data Structures Builder. To understand more about events & entities please see here.

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