Questions your engineer might ask you

Your engineer may have questions about how you want to use and classify data in Amplitude. Common questions follow, with resources to help you answer them.

Could you provide a sample or example payload of the data issue you're seeing?

User Lookup lets you explore real-time data streams from actual users. You can also start with Microscope in a chart, then select View User Streams to drill down to User Lookup.

What specific user or group properties do you need?

Refer to the guide to events and properties by industry for the most common selections. Start there first.

How often do user properties need updating? Is updating on profile changes enough?

User properties reflect the state of the user. They apply across all the user's future events until the next update. You don't have to send user properties with every event, because Amplitude fills in existing user property values for each event until the next update.

Why is this classified as an event property rather than a user property?

The subject of the property value determines the property type. If a property describes a characteristic of a user, like location, language, device type, or referral source, it's a user property. If a property adds context to an event the user triggered, like the direction of a finger swipe or the title of a viewed article, it's an event property.

If your engineer asks this, look closely at the event to confirm you've classified it correctly.