Collect Data with Sources

Learn about the different Segment sources, the types, and how to configure them.

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About This Course

A firm understanding of Segment's different source offerings is crucial to a comprehensive data strategy. Being able to implement tracking across your website, app, server, and cloud tool helps unlock valuable holistic insights about your users.

Objectives:

  • Connect different Source types within your workspace.
  • Use the Debugger to QA incoming data.
  • List out the main implications of tracking across different source types (client-side, server-side, cloud apps).
  • Get an initial set of events flowing into Segment.

 

Course30 min

  • Source Overview
  • What Is a Source? 1 min
  • Source Data Collection: Library Versus Cloud 1 min
  • Web Tracking Using analytics.js
  • Configure a Segment Website Source - analytics.js 7 min
  • Get Data Flowing 5 min
  • Mobile Tracking with SDKs
  • Mobile Tracking with SDKs 6 min
  • Server-side Tracking
  • Server-side Libraries 5 min
  • Send Server-side Event Data 5 min
  • HTTP API Library 4 min
  • Cloud Sources
  • Object Cloud Sources 1 min
  • Event Cloud Sources 1 min
  • End of the Course
  • Course Recap 2 min
  • Course Feedback

About This Course

A firm understanding of Segment's different source offerings is crucial to a comprehensive data strategy. Being able to implement tracking across your website, app, server, and cloud tool helps unlock valuable holistic insights about your users.

Objectives:

  • Connect different Source types within your workspace.
  • Use the Debugger to QA incoming data.
  • List out the main implications of tracking across different source types (client-side, server-side, cloud apps).
  • Get an initial set of events flowing into Segment.

 

Course30 min

  • Source Overview
  • What Is a Source? 1 min
  • Source Data Collection: Library Versus Cloud 1 min
  • Web Tracking Using analytics.js
  • Configure a Segment Website Source - analytics.js 7 min
  • Get Data Flowing 5 min
  • Mobile Tracking with SDKs
  • Mobile Tracking with SDKs 6 min
  • Server-side Tracking
  • Server-side Libraries 5 min
  • Send Server-side Event Data 5 min
  • HTTP API Library 4 min
  • Cloud Sources
  • Object Cloud Sources 1 min
  • Event Cloud Sources 1 min
  • End of the Course
  • Course Recap 2 min
  • Course Feedback