Introduction

Mixpanel is a business analytics service and tracks user interactions with web and mobile applications and provides tools for targeted communication with them. Its tool set contains in-app A/B tests and user survey forms. Data collected is used to build custom reports and measure user engagement and retention. This plugin will extract raw event-level data from Mixpanel that can be further transformed and enriched with other data sources.

Use case(s)

• Retrieve raw events data from Mixpanel service

User Storie(s)

• As a data pipeline developer, I should be able to retrieve raw Mixpanel events data for specified start and end date so that I can enrich and transform raw data for further analysis
• As a data pipeline developer, I should be able to specify API secret to authenticate the export request
• As a data pipeline developer, I should be able to see all the errors while fetching the raw events data from Mixpanel so that I can review and fix those export issues 

Plugin Type

• Batch Source
• Batch Sink 
• Real-time Source
• Real-time Sink
• Action
• Post-Run Action
• Aggregate
• Join
• Spark Model
• Spark Compute

Configuration

Design / Implementation Tips

• Mixpanel only supports batch source so there will not be any streaming source for Mixpanel
• Data export API always returns data in JSON format.
• API details provide best practices around API usage 

Design

Approach(s)

Properties

Security

Limitation(s)

Future Work

Test Case(s)

• Test case #1
• Test case #2

Sample Pipeline

Please attach one or more sample pipeline(s) and associated data. 

Pipeline #1

Pipeline #2

References

• Mixpanel Data Export API: https://developer.mixpanel.com/docs/exporting-raw-data
• Client libraries: https://developer.mixpanel.com/docs/data-export-api#section-client-libraries