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Segment jobs endpoint

Last update: March 21, 2025
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A segment job is an asynchronous process that creates an audience segment on demand. It references a segment definition, as well as any merge policies controlling how Real-Time Customer Profile merges overlapping attributes across your profile fragments. When a segment job successfully completes, you can gather various information about the segment, such as any errors that may have occurred during processing and the ultimate size of your audience.

This guide provides information to help you better understand segment jobs and includes sample API calls for performing basic actions using the API.

Getting started

The endpoints used in this guide are part of the Adobe Experience Platform Segmentation Service API. Before continuing, please review the getting started guide for important information that you need to know in order to successfully make calls to the API, including required headers and how to read example API calls.

Retrieve a list of segment jobs

You can retrieve a list of all segment jobs for your organization by making a GET request to the /segment/jobs endpoint.

API format

The /segment/jobs endpoint supports several query parameters to help filter your results. While these parameters are optional, their use is strongly recommended to help reduce expensive overhead. Making a call to this endpoint with no parameters will retrieve all export jobs available for your organization. Multiple parameters can be included, separated by ampersands (&).

GET /segment/jobs
GET /segment/jobs?{QUERY_PARAMETERS}

Query parameters

A list of available query parameters.
Parameter
Description
Example
start
Specifies the starting offset for the segment jobs returned.
start=1
limit
Specifies the number of segment jobs returned per page.
limit=20
status
Filters the results based on status. The supported values are NEW, QUEUED, PROCESSING, SUCCEEDED, FAILED, CANCELLING, CANCELLED
status=NEW
sort
Orders the segment jobs returned. Is written in the format `[attributeName]:[desc
asc]`.
property

Filters segment jobs and gets exact matches for the filter given. It can be written in either of the following formats:

  • [jsonObjectPath]==[value] - filtering on the object key
  • [arrayTypeAttributeName]~[objectKey]==[value] - filtering within the array
property=segments~segmentId==workInUS

Request

A sample request to view a list of segment jobs.
curl -X GET https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/ups/segment/jobs?status=SUCCEEDED \
 -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
 -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
 -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
 -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}'

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 200 with a list of segment jobs for the specified organization as JSON. A full list of all the segment definitions will be displayed within the children.segments attribute.

NOTE
The following response has been truncated for space, and will only show the first returned job.
A sample response when retrieving a list of segment jobs.
{
    "_page": {
        "totalCount": 14,
        "pageSize": 14
    },
    "children": [
        {
            "id": "b31aed3d-b3b1-4613-98c6-7d3846e8d48f",
            "imsOrgId": "E95186D65A28ABF00A495D82@AdobeOrg",
            "sandbox": {
                "sandboxId": "28e74200-e3de-11e9-8f5d-7f27416c5f0d",
                "sandboxName": "prod",
                "type": "production",
                "default": true
            },
            "profileInstanceId": "ups",
            "source": "scheduler",
            "status": "SUCCEEDED",
            "batchId": "678f53bc-e21d-4c47-a7ec-5ad0064f8e4c",
            "computeJobId": 8811,
            "computeGatewayJobId": "9ea97b25-a0f5-410e-ae87-b2d85e58f399",
            "segments": [
                {
                    "segmentId": "30230300-ccf1-48ad-8012-c5563a007069",
                    "segment": {
                        "id": "30230300-ccf1-48ad-8012-c5563a007069",
                        "expression": {
                            "type": "PQL",
                            "format": "pql/json",
                            "value": "{PQL_EXPRESSION}"
                        },
                        "mergePolicyId": "25c548a0-ca7f-4dcd-81d5-997642f178b9",
                        "mergePolicy": {
                            "id": "25c548a0-ca7f-4dcd-81d5-997642f178b9",
                            "version": 1
                        }
                    }
                }
            ],
            "metrics": {
                "totalTime": {
                    "startTimeInMs": 1573203617195,
                    "endTimeInMs": 1573204395655,
                    "totalTimeInMs": 778460
                },
                "profileSegmentationTime": {
                    "startTimeInMs": 1573204266727,
                    "endTimeInMs": 1573204395655,
                    "totalTimeInMs": 128928
                },
                "totalProfiles":13146432,
                "segmentedProfileCounter":{
                    "94509dba-7387-452f-addc-5d8d979f6ae8":1033
                },
                "segmentedProfileByNamespaceCounter":{
                    "94509dba-7387-452f-addc-5d8d979f6ae8":{
                        "tenantiduserobjid":1033,
                        "campaign_profile_mscom_mkt_prod2":1033
                    }
                },
                "segmentedProfileByStatusCounter":{
                    "94509dba-7387-452f-addc-5d8d979f6ae8":{
                        "exited":144646,
                        "realized":2056
                    }
                },
                "totalProfilesByMergePolicy":{
                    "25c548a0-ca7f-4dcd-81d5-997642f178b9":13146432
                }
            },
            "requestId": "4e538382-dbd8-449e-988a-4ac639ebe72b-1573203600264",
            "schema": {
                "name": "_xdm.context.profile"
            },
            "properties": {
                "scheduleId": "4e538382-dbd8-449e-988a-4ac639ebe72b",
                "runId": "e6c1308d-0d4b-4246-b2eb-43697b50a149"
            },
            "_links": {
                "cancel": {
                    "href": "/segment/jobs/b31aed3d-b3b1-4613-98c6-7d3846e8d48f",
                    "method": "DELETE"
                },
                "checkStatus": {
                    "href": "/segment/jobs/b31aed3d-b3b1-4613-98c6-7d3846e8d48f",
                    "method": "GET"
                }
            },
            "updateTime": 1573204395000,
            "creationTime": 1573203600535,
            "updateEpoch": 1573204395
        }
    ],
    "_links": {
        "next": {}
    }
}
Property
Description
id
A system-generated read-only identifier for the segment job.
status
The current status for the segment job. Potential values for the status include “NEW”, “PROCESSING”, “CANCELLING”, “CANCELLED”, “FAILED”, and “SUCCEEDED”.
segments
An object that contains information about the segment definitions returned within the segment job.
segments.segment.id
The ID of the segment definition.
segments.segment.expression
An object that contains information about the segment definition’s expression, written in PQL.
metrics
An object that contains diagnostic information about the segment job.
metrics.totalTime
An object that contains information on the times the segmentation job started and ended, as well as the total time taken.
metrics.profileSegmentationTime
An object that contains information on the times the segmentation evaluation started and ended, as well as the total time taken.
metrics.segmentProfileCounter
The number of profiles qualified on a per segment basis.
metrics.segmentedProfileByNamespaceCounter
The number of profiles qualified for each identity namespace on a per segment definition basis.
metrics.segmentProfileByStatusCounter

The count of profiles for each statuses. The following three statuses are supported:

  • “realized” - The number of profiles that qualify for the segment definition.
  • “exited” - The number of profiles that no longer exist in the segment definition.
metrics.totalProfilesByMergePolicy
The total number of merged profiles on a per merge policy basis.

Create a new segment job

You can create a new segment job by making a POST request to the /segment/jobs endpoint and including the IDs of the segment definition in the request body.

API format

POST /segment/jobs

Request

A sample request for creating a new segment job
curl -X POST https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/ups/segment/jobs \
 -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
 -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
 -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
 -d '[
    {
        "segmentId": "7863c010-e092-41c8-ae5e-9e533186752e"
    },
    {
        "segmentId": "07d39471-05d1-4083-a310-d96978fd7c85"
    }
 ]'
Property
Description
segmentId
The ID of the segment definition that you want to evaluate. These segment definitions can belong to different merge policies. More information about segment definitions can be found in the segment definition endpoint guide.

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 200 with information about your newly created segment job.

A sample response when creating a new segment job.
{
    "id": "b31aed3d-b3b1-4613-98c6-7d3846e8d48f",
    "imsOrgId": "E95186D65A28ABF00A495D82@AdobeOrg",
    "sandbox": {
        "sandboxId": "28e74200-e3de-11e9-8f5d-7f27416c5f0d",
        "sandboxName": "prod",
        "type": "production",
        "default": true
    },
    "profileInstanceId": "ups",
    "source": "scheduler",
    "status": "PROCESSING",
    "batchId": "678f53bc-e21d-4c47-a7ec-5ad0064f8e4c",
    "computeJobId": 8811,
    "computeGatewayJobId": "9ea97b25-a0f5-410e-ae87-b2d85e58f399",
    "segments": [
        {
            "segmentId": "7863c010-e092-41c8-ae5e-9e533186752e",
            "segment": {
                "id": "7863c010-e092-41c8-ae5e-9e533186752e",
                "expression": {
                    "type": "PQL",
                    "format": "pql/json",
                    "value": "workAddress.country = \"US\""
                },
                "mergePolicyId": "25c548a0-ca7f-4dcd-81d5-997642f178b9",
                "mergePolicy": {
                    "id": "25c548a0-ca7f-4dcd-81d5-997642f178b9",
                    "version": 1
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "segmentId": "07d39471-05d1-4083-a310-d96978fd7c85",
            "segment": {
                "id": "07d39471-05d1-4083-a310-d96978fd7c85",
                "expression": {
                    "type": "PQL",
                    "format": "pql/json",
                    "value": "workAddress.country = \"US\""
                },
                "mergePolicyId": "25c548a0-ca7f-4dcd-81d5-997642f178b9",
                "mergePolicy": {
                    "id": "25c548a0-ca7f-4dcd-81d5-997642f178b9",
                    "version": 1
                }
            }
        }
    ],
    "metrics": {
        "totalTime": {
            "startTimeInMs": 1573203617195,
            "endTimeInMs": 1573204395655,
            "totalTimeInMs": 778460
        },
        "profileSegmentationTime": {
            "startTimeInMs": 1573204266727,
            "endTimeInMs": 1573204395655,
            "totalTimeInMs": 128928
        },
        "segmentedProfileCounter":{
            "7863c010-e092-41c8-ae5e-9e533186752e":1033
        },
        "segmentedProfileByNamespaceCounter":{
            "7863c010-e092-41c8-ae5e-9e533186752e":{
                "tenantiduserobjid":1033,
                "campaign_profile_mscom_mkt_prod2":1033
            }
        },
        "segmentedProfileByStatusCounter":{
            "7863c010-e092-41c8-ae5e-9e533186752e":{
                "exited":144646,
                "realized":2056
            }
        },
        "totalProfiles":13146432,
        "totalProfilesByMergePolicy":{
            "25c548a0-ca7f-4dcd-81d5-997642f178b9":13146432
        }
    },
    "requestId": "4e538382-dbd8-449e-988a-4ac639ebe72b-1573203600264",
    "schema": {
        "name": "_xdm.context.profile"
    },
    "properties": {
        "scheduleId": "4e538382-dbd8-449e-988a-4ac639ebe72b",
        "runId": "e6c1308d-0d4b-4246-b2eb-43697b50a149"
    },
    "_links": {
        "cancel": {
            "href": "/segment/jobs/b31aed3d-b3b1-4613-98c6-7d3846e8d48f",
            "method": "DELETE"
        },
        "checkStatus": {
            "href": "/segment/jobs/b31aed3d-b3b1-4613-98c6-7d3846e8d48f",
            "method": "GET"
        }
    },
    "updateTime": 1573204395000,
    "creationTime": 1573203600535,
    "updateEpoch": 1573204395
}
Property
Description
id
A system-generated read-only identifier for the newly created segment job.
status
The current status for the segment job. Since the segment job is newly created, the status will always be “NEW”.
segments
An object that contains information about the segment definitions that this segment job is running for.
segments.segment.id
The ID of the segment definition that you provided.
segments.segment.expression
An object that contains information about the segment definition’s expression, written in PQL.

Retrieve a specific segment job

You can retrieve detailed information about a specific segment job by making a GET request to the /segment/jobs endpoint and providing the ID of the segment job you wish to retrieve in the request path.

API format

GET /segment/jobs/{SEGMENT_JOB_ID}
Property
Description
{SEGMENT_JOB_ID}
The id value of the segment job you want to retrieve.

Request

A sample request for retrieving a segment job.
curl -X GET https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/ups/segment/jobs/d3b4a50d-dfea-43eb-9fca-557ea53771fd \
 -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
 -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
 -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
 -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}'

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 200 with detailed information about the specified segment job. A full list of all the segment definitions will be displayed within the children.segments attribute.

A sample response for retrieving a segment job.
{
    "id": "d3b4a50d-dfea-43eb-9fca-557ea53771fd",
    "imsOrgId": "{ORG_ID}",
    "sandbox": {
        "sandboxId": "28e74200-e3de-11e9-8f5d-7f27416c5f0d",
        "sandboxName": "prod",
        "type": "production",
        "default": true
    },
    "profileInstanceId": "ups",
    "source": "api",
    "status": "SUCCEEDED",
    "batchId": "651fc109-3963-48d2-aa98-9e3cc2003bac",
    "computeJobId": 39312,
    "computeGatewayJobId": "a0099ab6-11ab-4c2b-a0ea-6162e16806bd",
    "segments": [
        {
            "segmentId": "4afe34ae-8c98-4513-8a1d-67ccaa54bc05",
            "segment": {
                "id": "4afe34ae-8c98-4513-8a1d-67ccaa54bc05",
                "expression": {
                    "type": "PQL",
                    "format": "pql/text",
                    "value": "workAddress.country = \"US\""
                },
                "mergePolicyId": "e161dae9-52f0-4c7f-b264-dc43dd903d56",
                "mergePolicy": {
                    "id": "e161dae9-52f0-4c7f-b264-dc43dd903d56",
                    "version": 1
                }
            }
        }
    ],
    "metrics": {
        "totalTime": {
            "startTimeInMs": 1579304313411
        },
        "profileSegmentationTime": {}
    },
    "requestId": "Hw1jdAHeuWHVKVxcAPFrLCbbjkriDl9v",
    "schema": {
        "name": "_xdm.context.profile"
    },
    "_links": {
        "cancel": {
            "href": "/segment/jobs/d3b4a50d-dfea-43eb-9fca-557ea53771fd",
            "method": "DELETE"
        },
        "checkStatus": {
            "href": "/segment/jobs/d3b4a50d-dfea-43eb-9fca-557ea53771fd",
            "method": "GET"
        }
    },
    "updateTime": 1579304339000,
    "creationTime": 1579304260897,
    "updateEpoch": 1579304339
}
Property
Description
id
A system-generated read-only identifier for the segment job.
status
The current status for the segment job. Potential values for the status include “NEW”, “PROCESSING”, “CANCELLING”, “CANCELLED”, “FAILED”, and “SUCCEEDED”.
segments
An object that contains information about the segment definitions returned within the segment job.
segments.segment.id
The ID of the segment definition.
segments.segment.expression
An object that contains information about the segment definition’s expression, written in PQL.
metrics
An object that contains diagnostic information about the segment job.

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Bulk retrieve segment jobs

You can retrieve detailed information about multiple segment jobs by making a POST request to the /segment/jobs/bulk-get endpoint and providing the id values of the segment jobs in the request body.

API format

POST /segment/jobs/bulk-get

Request

A sample request for using the bulk retrieve endpoint.
curl -X POST https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/ups/segment/jobs/bulk-get \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
  -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
  -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
  -d '{
        "ids": [
            {
                "id": "cc3419d3-0389-47f1-b174-fead6b3c830d"
            },
            {
                "id": "c527dc3f-07fe-4b96-be4e-23f38e734ff8"
            }
        ]
    }'

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 207 with the requested segment jobs.

NOTE
The following response has been truncated for space, only showing partial details of each segment job. The full response will list the full details for the segment jobs requested.
A sample response when using the bulk get response.
{
    "results": {
        "cc3419d3-0389-47f1-b174-fead6b3c830d": {
            "id": "cc3419d3-0389-47f1-b174-fead6b3c830d",
            "imsOrgId": "{ORG_ID}",
            "status": "SUCCEEDED",
            "segments": [
                {
                    "segmentId": "30230300-ccf1-48ad-8012-c5563a007069",
                    "segment": {
                        "id": "30230300-ccf1-48ad-8012-c5563a007069",
                        "expression": {
                            "type": "PQL",
                            "format": "pql/json",
                            "value": "{PQL_EXPRESSION}"
                        },
                        "mergePolicyId": "b83185bb-0bc6-489c-9363-0075eb30b4c8",
                        "mergePolicy": {
                            "id": "b83185bb-0bc6-489c-9363-0075eb30b4c8",
                            "version": 1
                        }
                    }
                }
            ],
            "updateTime": 1573204395000,
            "creationTime": 1573203600535,
            "updateEpoch": 1573204395
        },
        "c527dc3f-07fe-4b96-be4e-23f38e734ff8": {
            "id": "c527dc3f-07fe-4b96-be4e-23f38e734ff8",
            "imsOrgId": "{ORG_ID}",
            "status": "SUCCEEDED",
            "segments": [
                {
                    "segmentId": "30230300-d78c-48ad-8012-c5563a007069",
                    "segment": {
                        "id": "30230300-d78c-48ad-8012-c5563a007069",
                        "expression": {
                            "type": "PQL",
                            "format": "pql/json",
                            "value": "{PQL_EXPRESSION}"
                        },
                        "mergePolicyId": "b83185bb-0bc6-489c-9363-0075eb30b4c8",
                        "mergePolicy": {
                            "id": "b83185bb-0bc6-489c-9363-0075eb30b4c8",
                            "version": 1
                        }
                    }
                }
            ],
            "updateTime": 1573204395000,
            "creationTime": 1573203600535,
            "updateEpoch": 1573204395
        }
    }
}
Property
Description
id
A system-generated read-only identifier for the segment job.
status
The current status for the segment job. Potential values for the status include “NEW”, “PROCESSING”, “CANCELLING”, “CANCELLED”, “FAILED”, and “SUCCEEDED”.
segments
An object that contains information about the segment definitions returned within the segment job.
segments.segment.id
The ID of the segment definition.
segments.segment.expression
An object that contains information about the segment definition’s expression, written in PQL.

Cancel or delete a specific segment job

You can delete a specific segment job by making a DELETE request to the /segment/jobs endpoint and providing the ID of the segment job you wish to delete in the request path.

NOTE
The API response to the delete request is immediate. However, the actual deletion of the segment job is asynchronous. In other words, there is a time difference between when the delete request to the segment job is made and when it is applied.

API format

DELETE /segment/jobs/{SEGMENT_JOB_ID}
Property
Description
{SEGMENT_JOB_ID}
The id value of the segment job you want to delete.

Request

A sample request to delete a segment job.
curl -X DELETE https://platform.adobe.io/data/core/ups/segment/jobs/d3b4a50d-dfea-43eb-9fca-557ea53771fd \
 -H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
 -H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
 -H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
 -H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}'

Response

A successful response returns HTTP status 204 with an empty response body.

Next steps

After reading this guide you now have a better understanding of how segment jobs work.

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