This package allows you to send signals to TelemetryDeck from your JavaScript code.
It has no package dependencies and supports modern evergreen browsers which support cryptography.
Signals sent with this version of the SDK automatically send the following payload items:
url
useragent
locale
platform
You can filter and show these values in the TelemetryDeck dashboard.
Test Mode is currently not supported.
For websites and to try out the code quickly, you can use UNPKG, a free CDN which allows you to load files from any npm package.
Include the following snippet inside the <head>
of your HTML page:
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@telemetrydeck/sdk/dist/telemetrydeck.min.js" defer></script>
Then add a second script tag after it like this to send a signal once every time the page loads:
<script>
window.td = window.td || [];
td.push(['app', YOUR_APP_ID], ['user', USER_IDENTIFIER], ['signal']);
</script>
Please replace YOUR_APP_ID
with the app ID you received from TelemetryDeck, and USER_IDENTIFIER
with a user identifier. If you have none, consider anonymous
.
You can add as many signals as you need to track different interactions with your page. Once the page and script are fully loaded, signals will be sent immediatlty.
// basic signal
td.push('signal');
// with custom data
td.push('signal', { route: '/' });
<script>
// Required: queue setup
td = window.td || [];
// Required: Set your application id
td.push(['app', YOUR_APP_ID]);
// Required: Set a user idenfitier. `anonymous` is a recommended default
td.push(['user', USER_IDENTIFIER ?? 'anonymous']);
// Custom payload sent with the signal
td.push(['signal']);
td.push([
'signal',
{
route: 'some/page/path',
},
]);
</script>
After installing the package via NPM, use it like this:
import { TelemetryDeck } from 'telemetry-deck';
const td = new TelemetryDeck({ app: YOUR_APP_ID, user: YOUR_USER_IDENTIFIER });
// Process any events that have been qeued up
// Queued signals do not contain a client side timestamp and will be timestamped
// on the server at the time of arrival. Consider adding a timestamp value to
// your payloads if you need to be able to correlate them.
const queuedEvents = [
['app', YOUR_APP_ID],
['user', YOUR_USER_IDENTIFIER],
['signal'],
['signal', { route: 'some/page/path' }],
];
td.ingest(qeuedEvents);
// Basic signal
td.signal();
// Update app or user identifier
td.app(YOUR_NEW_APP_ID);
td.user(YOUR_NEW_USER_IDENTIFIER);
// Signal with custom payload
td.signal({
route: 'some/page/path',
});
Please replace YOUR_APP_ID
with the app ID you received from TelemetryDeck. If you have any string that identifies your user, such as an email address, use it as YOUR_USER_IDENTIFIER
β it will be cryptographically anonymized with a hash function.
If you want to pass optional parameters to the signal being sent, add them to the optional payload object.
Every application and website registered to TelemetryDeck has its own unique ID that we use to assign incoming signals to the correct app. To get started, create a new app in the TelemetryDeck UI and copy its ID.
TelemetryDeck can count users if you assign it a unique identifier for each user that doesn't change. This identifier can be any string that is unique to the user, such as their email address, or a randomly generated UUID.
Feel free to use personally identifiable information as the user identifier: We use a cryptographically secure double-hasing process on client and server to make sure the data that arrives at our servers is anonymized and can not be traced back to individual users via their identifiers. A user's identifier is hashed inside the library, and then salted+hashed again on arrival at the server. This way the data is anonymized as defined by the GDPR and you don't have to ask for user consent for procesing or storing this data.
You can optionally attach an object with string values to the signal. This will allow you to filter and aggregate signal by these values in the dashboard.
Go to docs.telemetrydeck.com to see all documentation articles