From 41335048dc91cf913782fe71bfb67904a8f5a404 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: timgl Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:50:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] chore: Update PoE documentation (#17631) --- plugin-server/src/worker/ingestion/PoE.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/plugin-server/src/worker/ingestion/PoE.md b/plugin-server/src/worker/ingestion/PoE.md index 91a4386de7e76..6dfab71ef14af 100644 --- a/plugin-server/src/worker/ingestion/PoE.md +++ b/plugin-server/src/worker/ingestion/PoE.md @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ The way we write the `person_id` to each event has some implications for the num The source of truth for data is the events table. Since this is point-in-time data, it is not possible to determine whether two `person_id`'s were later merged into a single user, which results in them being counted separately. 2. In the person modal, the count may be lower than the count displayed in the graph. Persons who've been merged into one have one of their old IDs deleted. We remove these people from the persons modal, as there's no place to link them to. +3. If a merge happens in the middle of a funnel, the user will show as having dropped off, instead of completed the funnel. To understand better how these scenarios can arise, let's take a look at some specific examples. @@ -68,6 +69,8 @@ This mean that we delete `user-2` from the persons table and all future events f In this case, we’d show 1 unique user in the trend graph for pageviews, but since `user-2` was deleted during the merge, we would show 0 users in the person modal. +If we had a funnel that tracked `pageview` -> `identify`, Alice would show as having dropped off in that funnel (whereas without PoEv1 it would show as being completed). + To continue the example, let's say that Alice views the homepage again now that she is logged in. | Day | Event | distinct_id | `person_id` |