Event Fingerprint Enrichment

Summary¶

This enrichment allows for a customized approach to setting an event ID by allowing you to select parameters to be hashed into a unique identifier.

Overview¶

This enrichment generates a fingerprint for the event using a hash of client-set fields. This is helpful when deduplicating events.

This is the field which this enrichment will augment: event_fingerprint.

The input values for this enrichment are taken from all the querystring fields and the body (if present) except those extracted from excludedParameters in event_fingerprint_enrichment.json. That is all the properties of the RawEvent produced by the adapter (tracker protocol) used are taken into account.

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Example¶

The following shows an example of the enrichement configuration which would use all the parameters except the event id (event_id mapped to eid) and the device sent timestamp (dvce_sent_tstamp mapped to stm).

{
  "schema": "iglu:com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow/event_fingerprint_config/jsonschema/1-0-0",
  "data": {
    "name": "event_fingerprint_config",
    "vendor": "com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow",
    "enabled": true,
    "parameters": {
      "excludeParameters": [
        "eid",
        "stm"
      ],
      "hashAlgorithm": "MD5"
    }
  }
}