For many customers, the differences between hiding, blocking, and deleting an event or property from your tracking plan aren't immediately clear. For example, hidden or blocked events and properties still count towards your project's instrumentation limit, whereas deleted events and properties don't.
These options will only appear in the menu at the top of Amplitude Data after you select an event or property. The options aren't visible prior to that.
This article answers some frequently asked questions about the similarities and differences between each option.
You can hide an event or property from drop-downs, Pathfinder results, and Personas charts:What is a hidden event or property?
When you do this, Amplitude stops ingesting and processing the event or property. Blocked events and properties ingested prior to blocking are selectable in drop-downs and used in charts. Data from after you create a block doesn't appear in user streams or chart results. Blocking an event or property doesn't stop you from sending that data to Amplitude, so you still receive a success response when you send it. However Amplitude drops that data before the processing stage, and you can't recover it.
What does blocking an event or property do?
As with blocking, Amplitude doesn't ingest deleted events and properties, and the data sent after deleting an event or property isn't recoverable. The difference is that deleted events and properties aren't available in drop-downs. Charts that include the now-deleted event or property are available, but you can't include it in any new charts. If you removed the deleted event from a chart, you can't add it back it unless you undelete it. However, deleted events still appear in chart results, so if you'd like to remove/hide data from charts for a deleted event, create a drop filter prior to deleting the event.
What happens to deleted events and properties?
What are the differences between hiding, blocking, and deleting?
Blocked from Ingestion
Available in data exports
Available in chart dropdowns
Count towards monthly event volume limit
Count towards 2000 event type limit
In Govern
Blocked
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
All, Blocked
Deleted
Yes
No
No
No
No
Deleted
Hidden
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
All, Live, Hidden
Thanks for your feedback!
November 7th, 2024
Need help? Contact Support
Visit Amplitude.com
Have a look at the Amplitude Blog
Learn more at Amplitude Academy
© 2024 Amplitude, Inc. All rights reserved. Amplitude is a registered trademark of Amplitude, Inc.