Mixpanel connector for Amazon AppFlow - Amazon AppFlow
Mixpanel supportBefore you beginConnecting to MixpanelTransferring Data From MixpanelSupported objectsSupported destinations

Mixpanel connector for Amazon AppFlow

Mixpanel is a service that provides analytics about user engagement in web and mobile applications. If you use Mixpanel, you can also use Amazon AppFlow to transfer your data to certain AWS services or other supported applications.

Mixpanel support

Amazon AppFlow supports Mixpanel as follows.

Supported as a data source?

Yes. You can use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from your Mixpanel account.

Supported as a data destination?

No. You can't use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data to your Mixpanel account.

Before you begin

Before you can use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from Mixpanel, you need the following:

  • A Mixpanel project that contains the data that you want to transfer.

  • A service account for your Mixpanel project. In Mixpanel, a service account is a type of user that you authorize to access a project programmatically with the Mixpanel API. Amazon AppFlow needs this account to access your data. For more information, see Service Accounts in the Mixpanel documentation.

    When you create a Mixpanel connection in Amazon AppFlow, you provide the following properties from your service account:

    • Username

    • Secret

Connecting Amazon AppFlow to your Mixpanel account

To connect Amazon AppFlow to your Mixpanel project, provide details about the service account that enables Amazon AppFlow to access your data. To create a service account, see Before you begin.

To connect to Mixpanel

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon AppFlow console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/appflow/.

  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Connections.

  3. On the Manage connections page, for Connectors, choose Mixpanel.

  4. Choose Create connection.

  5. In the Connect to Mixpanel window, enter the following:

    • User name – The user name of the Mixpanel service account that provides access to your project.

    • Password – The service account secret.

    • MixPanel Instance URL – Choose https://mixpanel.com/api/app/me.

    • MixPanel API version – Choose 2.0.

  6. Optionally, under Data encryption, choose Customize encryption settings (advanced) if you want to encrypt your data with a customer managed key in the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

    By default, Amazon AppFlow encrypts your data with a KMS key that AWS creates, uses, and manages for you. Choose this option if you want to encrypt your data with your own KMS key instead.

    Amazon AppFlow always encrypts your data during transit and at rest. For more information, see Data protection in Amazon AppFlow.

    If you want to use a KMS key from the current AWS account, select this key under Choose an AWS KMS key. If you want to use a KMS key from a different AWS account, enter the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for that key.

  7. For Connection name, enter a name for your connection.

  8. Choose Connect.

On the Manage connections page, your new connection appears in the Connections table. When you create a flow that uses Mixpanel as the data source, you can select this connection.

Transferring data from Mixpanel with a flow

To transfer data from Mixpanel, create an Amazon AppFlow flow, and choose Mixpanel as the data source. To learn how to create a flow, see Creating flows in Amazon AppFlow.

When you configure the flow, choose which data object that you want to transfer. For more information about the objects that Amazon AppFlow supports for Mixpanel, see Supported objects.

Required filters for Mixpanel data objects

When you create a flow and use Mixpanel as the data source, most data objects require you to specify one or more filters. Filters are typically optional criteria that you use to transfer data objects selectively. Specifically for flows that transfer from Mixpanel, you must specify filters to provide Amazon AppFlow with parameter values that it needs to query your data.

For the filters that are required for each Mixpanel data object, see Supported objects.

Also choose the destination where you want to transfer the data object that you selected. For more information on how to configure your destination, see Supported destinations.

Supported objects

When you create a flow that uses Mixpanel as the data source, you can transfer any of the data objects shown in the following table. To retrieve each object, Amazon AppFlow sends a query to the URI in the Mixpanel endpoint column. Most data objects support one or more filters that appear under Supported filters. Flows that transfer from Mixpanel require certain filters.

Object Mixpanel endpoint

The following paths are appended to the base URI: https://mixpanel.com/api/2.0.

 Supported filters
Annotations /annotations

  • from_date
Cohorts /cohorts/list None
Engage /engage None
Events /events

  • event*

  • from_date*

  • interval

  • to_date*

  • type*

  • unit*

  • workspace_id
Events Names /events/names

  • limit

  • type*

  • workspace_id
Events Properties /events/properties

  • event*

  • from_date*

  • interval

  • limit

  • name*

  • to_date*

  • type*

  • unit*

  • workspace_id
Events Properties Top /events/properties/top

  • event*

  • limit

  • workspace_id
Events Properties Values /events/properties/values

  • event*

  • limit

  • name*

  • workspace_id
Events Top /events/top

  • limit

  • type*

  • workspace_id
Funnels /funnels

  • from_date*

  • funnel_id*

  • interval

  • length

  • length_unit

  • limit

  • to_date

  • unit*

  • workspace_id
Profile Event Activity /stream/query

  • distinct_ids

  • from_date*

  • to_date*

  • workspace_id
Retention /retention/addiction

  • addiction_unit

  • event

  • from_date*

  • limit

  • to_date*

  • unit*

  • workspace_id
Segmentation /segmentation

  • event*

  • from_date*

  • interval

  • limit

  • to_date*

  • type

  • unit

  • workspace_id
Segmentation Average /segmentation/average

  • event*

  • from_date*

  • on*

  • to_date*

  • unit

  • workspace_id
Segmentation Numeric /segmentation/numeric

  • event*

  • from_date*

  • on*

  • to_date*

  • type

  • unit

  • workspace_id
Segmentation Sum /segmentation/sum

  • event*

  • from_date*

  • on*

  • to_date*

  • unit

  • workspace_id

* You must specify this filter in your flow definition before Amazon AppFlow can successfully retrieve your data.

Supported destinations

When you create a flow that uses Mixpanel as the data source, you can set the destination to any of the following connectors: