This article helps you:
Understand the benefits to using a display name for an event or user property
Learn how to change the display name of your events or user properties
By default, an event's display name in Amplitude data is the same as the ingested name. However, these can be difficult to read, understand, and incorporate directly into your analyses. For this reason, you can give your events and user properties new display names that offer an easy-to-read description of their purpose and content.
This only applies to active events and user properties that you added to your tracking plan, and doesn't apply to custom events. It changes the display name of the event or property within the Amplitude UI and doesn't change the raw data.
You can update an event type's display name directly from the Events screen. To do so, follow these steps:
You can update a user property's display from the User Properties tab on the Properties screen. To do so, follow these steps:
Hide events from appearing in areas of Amplitude where you don't want them. For example, you can hide noisy events from your user stream to make the data that appears more effective.
Support for updating an event's visibility depends on the event type.
Event type | Editable? | Where to edit |
---|---|---|
Default events | Must be in the tracking plan, and have Modify enabled. |
Table menu, table row, side panel. |
Transformed events | Yes. Hiding from event streams isn't supported. | Side panel |
Live events | Yes | Table menu, table row, side panel. |
Planned events | No | |
Unexpected events | No | |
Blocked events | Yes | Table menu, table row, side panel. |
Deleted events | No |
To update an event's visibility:
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August 5th, 2024
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