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Federated data

Last update: May 12, 2026

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AVAILABILITY
The Federated Analytics service is available only when using streaming media features with Adobe Analytics. Federated Analytics is not available in Customer Journey Analytics.

The Federated data metric counts sessions that were received via a federated data share rather than from your own implementation. Use it to measure the volume of partner-shared sessions and compare engagement, completion, or quality against first-party sessions.

See the Federated Media use case for more information.

TIP
If you want to use federated data as a dimension, create a Processing rule that maps the a.media.federated context data variable to an eVar.

How this metric is calculated

The media backend sets mediaReporting.sessionDetails.isFederated = true when the session arrives over a federated channel. The metric increments once per qualifying session and is reported on the close call.

Reporting system
Source
Adobe Analytics
Automatically collected from context data a.media.federated when Video Metadata is enabled.
Customer Journey Analytics
mediaReporting.sessionDetails.isFederated
Data feeds
event_list, post_event_list (see event.tsv lookup)
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