Mixpanel Track Events API event forwarding extension

Mixpanel is a product analytics tool that allows you to capture data on how users interact with a digital product. You can analyze product data with simple, interactive reports that let you query and visualize the data with just a few clicks. Mixpanel designed to make teams more efficient by allowing everyone to analyze user data in real time to identify trends, understand user behavior, and make decisions about your product.

Mixpanel employs an event-based, user-centric model that connects each interaction to a single user. The Mixpanel data model is built on the concepts of users, events, and properties.

Use cases

This extension should be used if you want to use data from the Edge Network in Mixpanel to take advantage of its product analytics capabilities.

For example, consider a retail organization that has a multichannel presence (website and mobile). The organization captures transactional or conversational input as event data from their platforms and loads it into Mixpanel using the event forwarding extension.

The analytics teams can then leverage Mixpanel’s capabilities to process the datasets and derive business insights, which can be used to generate graphs, dashboards, or other visualizations to inform business stakeholders.

For more information on use cases specific to Mixpanel, refer to the following documentation:

Mixpanel prerequisites prerequisites-mixpanel

You must have a valid Mixpanel account in order to use this extension. Go to the Mixpanel registration page to register and create an account if you do not have one already.

Ensure that the Identity Merge setting is enabled for your project. Navigate to Settings > Project Setting > Identity Merge and toggle the setting.

Understanding identity clusters in Mixpanel

In Mixpanel, an identity cluster contains a collection of distinct_id values that connect to an individual user. Mixpanel handles the cluster of identities for each user, resolving a single canonical distinct_id from each cluster to be used in reporting. You can also include your own identifier (called a local distinct_id) for anonymous events that occur before a user identification event.

Mixpanel resolves identity clusters through two methods:

Gather required configuration details configuration-details

In order to connect Experience Platform to Mixpanel you must have the following inputs:

Install and configure the Mixpanel extension install

To install the extension, create an event forwarding property or choose an existing property to edit instead.

Select Extensions in the left navigation. In the Catalog tab, select Install on the card for the Mixpanel extension.

Create a Send Event rule

Start creating a new rule in your event forwarding property. Under Actions, add a new action and set the extension to Mixpanel. Next, set the action type to Track Event to send Edge Network events to Mixpanel.

Once the Track Event action is added to the rule, you can configure the rule’s conditions so it only fires for certain events, or you can leave the conditions section empty to make the rule fire for all events.

Validate data within Mixpanel validate

If your implementation is successful and events are collected, you will see events within the Mixpanel console.

Check if Mixpanel has merged the post login events populated with email values and the events created when using Send Event. If implemented correctly, Mixpanel will associate them with a single user profile.

Next steps

This guide covered how to send conversion events to Mixpanel using event forwarding. This event forwarding extension leverages the Mixpanel SDK and JavaScript API. For more information on these underlying technologies, refer to the official documentation:

For more information on event forwarding capabilities in Experience Platform, refer to the event forwarding overview.