Accessing failed events in file storage

When failed events are generated on your pipeline the raw event payload along with details about the failure are saved into file storage (S3 on AWS, GCS on Google Cloud).

You can directly access and download examples of events that are failing from file storage, this is useful for further investigation and also required to design a recovery using the Recovery Builder.

Retrieving raw data from S3 on AWS

Login to your AWS Console account and navigate to the sub-account that contains your Snowplow pipeline
Navigate to your S3 storage buckets
You should find a bucket with a name ending in -kinesis-s3-bad and within that a folder with your pipeline name e.g. prod1
Navigate into this folder and you should see partitioned (search if it isn't visible), and within this a folder for each type of failed event. Select the relevant type for the failed events you wish to find.
You can now browse the folder using date and time to find a batch of failed events that occurred on that date / time period.

Step 1 - login to AWS and navigate to S3, find or search for the '-kinesis-s3-bad' folder for your pipeline

Step 2 - locate or search for the folder called 'partitioned'

Step 3 - select the relevant folder for your error type

Step 4 - use the date and timestamps to find a batch of failed events that will contain an example of the event you wish to find

Retrieving raw data from GCS on GCP

Login to your Google Cloud Platform account and navigate to the project that contains your Snowplow pipeline
Navigate to your Google Cloud Storage buckets
You should find a bucket named with a prefix of sp-storage-loader-bad
Navigating into this you should see partitioned, and within this a folder for each type of failed event. Select the relevant type for the failed event you wish to find.
You can now drill down by year, month, day, and hour to find a batch of failed events that occured on that date / time period.