Ship Week, winter 2024
Seven days of new features just in time for the holidays
As most teams wind down for the holidays, our product and engineering teams have been hard at work building a few final surprises off your Amplitude feature wishlist. So before you set that out-of-office reply, grab a hot cocoa and get ready for Ship Week, Winter 2024 edition! Starting December 16th, we’re bringing you seven days of new feature releases to enhance your digital analytics experience in the new year.
Be sure to check back here (or follow us on LinkedIn and X/Twitter) as we reveal a new feature each day. We can’t wait for you to unwrap them all!
Day #1: Suggested charts
Introducing suggested charts, a new way to explore insights faster!
Think of suggested charts as your personal data analyst, surfacing relevant insights from existing charts when you need them. No more wondering what to analyze next. As you explore a funnel or user journey, suggested charts serve up new connected analyses that lead you down interesting insight paths you might never have discovered on your own. And the best part? One click is all it takes to save these discoveries to a dashboard.
Whether you’re investigating your loyalty program’s impact, diving into checkout conversions, or exploring user segments, suggested charts can transform hours of manual analysis into minutes of intuitive exploration. We think this update will empower your teams to make faster, more informed decisions with unprecedented ease.
⭐ ️ Availability: Suggested charts is rolling out this week as a limited beta, so please reach out to your account team for access. We're excited to learn more as we test out and improve the experience!
Day #2: Profiles
Augment your analytics with customer profiles from your data warehouse!
Profiles lets you enrich your existing product and behavioral data in Amplitude by seamlessly integrating customer profile data from Snowflake, Databricks, or other ingestion sources. This allows you to unlock deeper insights and more personalization power by understanding your users actions and their attributes. And thanks to Amplitude’s Change Data Capture, information in Profiles is always up to date so you don’t have to worry about maintaining the current version of the data on a regular interval.
Read more about this powerful new feature in our blog, and check out our help docs to get started.
🔓 Access: Find this feature via Data > Sources > Add Source > Profiles.
⭐️ Availability: This feature is available to Amplitude Growth plan and Enterprise plan customers.
Day #3: Insights digest
Sometimes you just need the TL;DR. We heard you, and we’re excited to deliver it to your inbox.
Insights digest is a new weekly email that surfaces your most important Amplitude information. Each digest summarizes emerging trends within key metrics (WAUs, new signups, retention, and more) along with highlights of the most-viewed charts in your organization. With this new digest, Amplitude now automatically surfaces important insights right in your inbox so you can stay up to date on the go!
🔓 Access: Users can opt in/opt out of insights digest via the notifications page in your organization’s settings.
⭐ ️ Availability: This feature is available to Amplitude Plus plan, Growth plan, and Enterprise plan customers. Note: This feature is not yet available for customers in our EU datacenter.
Day #4: Quickstart
Today we’re introducing a new way to get started in Amplitude: Quickstart!
Quickstart is a new guided experience that turns your data onboarding journey into an intuitive adventure, organized around the goals that matter most to you. Whether you're setting up tracking, diving into user behavior, or launching new features, Quickstart adapts to your needs with smart, guided workflows that track your progress. No more hunting through documentation—everything you need is right at your fingertips, from one-click integrations with your favorite tools or data sources (Slack, Notion, Snowflake, you name it!) to instant access to dashboards and real-time monitoring.
This new update packs years of analytics expertise into an intuitive onboarding experience that gets you from zero to 💯 in record time.
⭐ ️ Availability: Quickstart is rolling out this month as a limited beta, so please reach out to your account teams for access. We're excited to learn more as we test out and improve the experience!
Day #5: Session Replay mini-player
Session Replay is getting a sleek new mini-player!
Now you can preview user sessions instantly with a single click. Think of it as your highlight reel for user behavior, letting you quickly scan through multiple sessions until you find the perfect replay. When you spot something interesting, seamlessly expand to our new mega-modal for a full-screen deep dive, complete with synchronized event streams, detailed user properties, and insight-sharing with the click of a button. The best part? With mini-mode, all your filters stay intact as you explore for frictionless focus.
This intuitive experience transforms the way teams analyze session replays, making it faster and easier to uncover the insights that matter. The future of Session Replay is here, and it’s all about efficiency, speed, and powerful insights at your fingertips.
⭐️ Availability: We're in the process of rolling out this update, and all customers with Session Replay will have access to the mini-player within the month.
Day #6: Root Cause Analysis improvements
Get to the "why" of data anomalies faster than ever with these updates to Root Cause Analysis!
Root Cause Analysis is a powerful feature that helps you uncover the causes of sudden drops in conversions, unexpected spikes in user engagement, or other unusual event patterns. In addition to experience improvements with hover cards, clearer information layout, and bug fixes, we're also giving you answers right in your inbox: Alert emails can now take you directly to a root cause analysis in a single click.
This streamlined experience means less time wrestling with data and more time taking action on insights. We think this update will help teams identify issues faster and empower them to make better product decisions.
⭐ ️ Availability: This update is available to all customers with access to Root Cause Analysis in Amplitude Growth and Enterprise plans.
Day #7: Chart color themes
Your data, your brand, your colors! 🌈
We’re excited to introduce chart color themes in Amplitude, putting the power of visual customization at your fingertips.
Now you can easily bring your own color scheme to match your brand identity with just a few clicks. Create unlimited custom color palettes, fine-tune individual color swatches, and even set specific themes for dark mode. Your carefully crafted themes follow your charts everywhere, from individual analyses to full dashboards, ensuring consistent branding across all your data storytelling. Chart color themes help you make every visualization uniquely yours.
⭐ Availability: This update is available to all customers on our growth and enterprise analytics plans .
What’s next?
That's it for this Ship Week! Thank you for checking back each day as we revealed all these new features to enhance your Amplitude experience. And although opening your last present may leave you a little melancholy for the end of the holidays, don't worry—we have plenty more exciting features in store in the new year.
Now get out to that winter wonderland and enjoy the rest of your holiday season!
Jeffrey Wang
Co-founder & Former Chief Architect, Amplitude
Jeffrey originated the infrastructure that enables us to scan billions of events every second at Amplitude. He studied Computer Science at Stanford and brings experience building infrastructure from Palantir and Sumo Logic.
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