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SnowcatCloud

SnowcatCloud is a cloud-hosted customer data infrastructure built on the open-source OpenSnowcat platform (Snowplow fork).

SnowcatCloud empowers teams to collect, enrich, and route first-party behavioral data with full transparency. It reliably delivers clean data to data warehouses and streaming infrastructure, and seamlessly integrates with platforms like Amplitude.

SnowcatCloud's integration with Amplitude is fully server-side. Beyond the initial setup, you don't need additional instrumentation or client-side changes to deliver events to Amplitude.

Setup overview

To send data from SnowcatCloud to Amplitude:

  1. Configure your SnowcatCloud pipeline to use the Amplitude destination.
  2. Select the Standard or EU residency Amplitude endpoint.
  3. Provide your Amplitude API key in the destination configuration.
  4. Send a test event

Key features:

  • Batch uploads to Amplitude’s HTTP V2 API
  • Automatic field mapping to Amplitude’s schema
  • Rich contextual data - including session, geographic, and device information

Field mapping overview

SnowcatCloud uses this field mapping to translate enriched events into Amplitude-compatible payloads:

CategoryAmplitude FieldSource Field (SnowcatCloud Enriched)Format/Notes
Event Typeevent_typeevent_name (unstruct) / event (page_view)Trimmed
Insert IDinsert_idevent_id
User IDuser_iduser_idSanitized
Device IDdevice_idnetwork_useridResolved device ID
Timestamptimestampdvce_created_tstampUnix ms
User Agentuser_agentuseragent
Platformplatformplatform
OS Nameos_namecontexts_com_snowplowanalytics_snowplow_ua_parser_context_1.osFamily
OS Versionos_versioncontexts_com_snowplowanalytics_snowplow_ua_parser_context_1.osVersion
Device Branddevice_brandcontexts_nl_basjes_yauaa_context_1.deviceBrand
Device Modeldevice_modelcontexts_nl_basjes_yauaa_context_1.deviceName
Countrycountrycontexts_com_dbip_location_1.country.names.en
Citycitycontexts_com_dbip_location_1.city.names.en
Latitudelocation_latcontexts_com_dbip_location_1.location.latitude
Longitudelocation_lngcontexts_com_dbip_location_1.location.longitude

Event properties

PropertySource
raw_event_nameevent
page_encodingdoc_charset
page_locationpage_url
page_referrerpage_referrer
page_titlepage_title

User properties

PropertySource
utm_campaignmkt_campaign
utm_sourcemkt_source
utm_mediummkt_medium
utm_contentmkt_content
utm_networkmkt_network
utm_termmkt_term

More help

Contact SnowcatCloud support (support@snowcatcloud.com) or Amplitude support.

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