Run Snowplow Micro through Console
Snowplow Micro is fully integrated in Snowplow Console:
- You can deploy one or more Micro-based development environments
- Each environment is automatically connected to your development data structures
- You can manage enrichments the same way as for regular pipelines, and copy enrichment configuration from a development environment to a pipeline
Using a development environment is a great way to test your changes before applying them to a real pipeline.
Setup
To create a development environment, navigate to Settings > Workspaces, select your workspace, scroll to the Development environments section and click Create environment.
You will need Edit environments permissions to do this.
You can add multiple environments, or create and delete them as you see necessary. For example, it might be convenient to create separate environments for different teams testing different code in parallel.
Under the hood, an instance of Snowplow Micro will be deployed in your cloud account along with a database to store events. (This account is managed by you, in the case of Private Managed Cloud, or by Snowplow otherwise.)
Usage
Once your development environment is ready, you can access it from the Pipelines section in the Console sidebar.
Select your environment and you will see the Collector endpoint URL you can use in your tracking code to send events to this environment.
Events will be stored for a (rolling) 7 day period.
To view events in the Micro UI, select your environment and then click View events.
Do not send production data to development environments. Anyone with the View environments permission can access the UI and see the events. Also, development environments are not configured to withstand high volumes of events.
To enable or disable enrichments and edit their configurations, select the Enrichments tab. The process is the same as for regular pipelines. We highly recommend testing enrichments in a development environment before deploying them to production.