Query: On Report Suite Data Purging

[SonikaDU]

Hello,

I have configured one of my Report Suite data with testing environment data. Which is now ongoing testing.

I would like to know if there is some way that I can purge the report suite current data. And start populating acceptance data in same report suite, to have valid data for acceptance testing.

Regards,

Sonika Dutta

[Jennifer_Dungan]

You might be able to use the Data Repair API, but that comes with additional costs... it likely isn't worth that...

I've never purged data myself, I keep our dev/qa suite for testing data, and prod for fully tested / vetted releases... 

If garbage data does go into prod, I actually have set up my suites with a "Prod" physical suite, and a "Prod - Clean" virtual suite. Basically, I have a "clean" segment that will clean up / remove garbage data... all our reports are made using the Clean Virtual Suite (and since I have a multiple virtual suites to separate out our individual sites, each one of those also includes the "clean segment")

[SDutta]

Hi @Jennifer_Dungan Can you please explain how you have setup clean segment to clear up garbage data?

[Jennifer_Dungan]

Well the segment will have to be customized to your needs.. you know better what data you are trying to purge...

Let's do an easy example, let's say I have a prod site "www.domain.com" and a testing site "qa.domain.com"... and for some reason, I had traffic accidentally send from my test site into my prod suite.

I would create a simple segment of

Hit [

    Hit Container (Exclude) [

        URL contains qa.domain.com

    ]

]

While I wouldn't normally use an extra container here, this allows me to stack other logic blocks into my "clean" segment later as separate containers (basically I am planning for future expansion of my rules - while I hope not to have to use this often, I know that there will come a time that I will).

Then, I just make sure ALL my virtual report suites, as well as a new vrs specifically designed used only for clean data, use this segment.

So I would have VRSs for:

• site a (segment for "site a", and segment for "clean")
• site b (segment for "site b", and segment for "clean")
• site c (segment for "site c", and segment for "clean")
• mobile apps (segment for "mobile apps", and segment for "clean")
• etc

then I would have another one which is basically just:

• global suite clean (segment for "clean")

The hardest part of this is really just going back and changing all your existing reports to use the new clean vrs.