How can I monitor interactive data collection API calls?

Question

I'm currently using the following API to send event data toward a datastream: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-platform/edge-network-server-api/data-collection/interactive-data-collection.html?lang=en{
   "event": {
      "xdm": {
        "identityMap": {
            "Email_LC_SHA256": [
               {
                  "id": "0c7e6a405862e402eb76a70f8a26fc732d07c32931e9fae9ab1582911d2e8a3b",
                  "primary": true
               }
            ]
         },
         "eventType": "web.webpagedetails.pageViews",
         "web": {
            "webPageDetails": {
               "URL": "https://alloystore.dev",
               "name": "Home Page"
            },
            "webReferrer": {
               "URL": ""
            }
         },
         "device": {
            "screenHeight": 1440,
            "screenWidth": 3440,
            "screenOrientation": "landscape"
         },
         "environment": {
            "type": "browser",
            "browserDetails": {
               "viewportWidth": 3440,
               "viewportHeight": 1440
            }
         },
         "placeContext": {
            "localTime": "2023-07-23T22:45:21.193-06:00",
            "localTimezoneOffset": 360
         },
         "timestamp": "2023-07-23T04:45:21.193Z",
         "implementationDetails": {
            "name": "https://ns.adobe.com/experience/alloy/reactor",
            "version": "2.8.0+2.9.0",
            "environment": "browser"
         },
         "_experience": {
            "analytics": {
               "customDimensions": {
                  "eVars": {
                     "eVar14": "eVar14"
                  }
               },
               "event1to100": {
                  "event13": {
                     "value": 1
                  },
                  "event14": {
                     "value": 2
                  }
               }
            }
         }
      }
   },
   "data": {
      "page": {
         "pageInfo": {
            "pageName": "Promotions",
            "siteSection": "Home"
         },
         "promos": {
            "heroPromos": "purse,shoes,sunglasses"
         },
         "customVariables": {
            "testGroup": "orange/black theme"
         },
         "events": {
            "homePage": true
         },
         "products": [
            {
               "productSKU": "abc123",
               "productName": "shirt"
            }
         ]
      }
   }
} And getting the following response:{
    "requestId": "1e85a854-a709-4bfa-9627-XXXXXXXX",
    "handle": [
        {
            "payload": [
                {
                    "scope": "Target",
                    "hint": "37",
                    "ttlSeconds": 1800
                },
                {
                    "scope": "AAM",
                    "hint": "6",
                    "ttlSeconds": 1800
                },
                {
                    "scope": "EdgeNetwork",
                    "hint": "irl1",
                    "ttlSeconds": 1800
                }
            ],
            "type": "locationHint:result"
        },
        {
            "payload": [
                {
                    "key": "kndctr_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_AdobeOrg_cluster",
                    "value": "irl1",
                    "maxAge": 1800
                }
            ],
            "type": "state:store"
        }
    ]
} Although I'm getting a 200 response in Postman, I want to verify how the event is recorded in Adobe. I've discovered the monitoring module in Adobe's documentation, but I don't have the "Monitoring" tab in the dashboard: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/platform-learn/data-collection/event-forwarding/monitor.html?lang=en How can I enable it? I've also set up an event forwarding to Adobe Analytics, but I see nothing over there:

yuhuisg · Accepted Answer

I know what you mean about thinking that Assurance is meant for validating Mobile SDK hits. So I was pleasantly surprised myself when I found that hits from Web SDK could be validated there too. And that's when I realised that Assurance is really just receiving and validating all hits sent to the Edge network, regardless of how the data was sent.

However, I've just realised that there is no API for starting Assurance sessions programmatically. I could've sworn that I had seen developer documentation for such an API, but I don't see it now. So, I take back my recommendation of using Assurance. I apologise for misleading you on this.

And so, it would seem that there is no way to validate your hits at Adobe Edge programmatically. The only way to validate will be to see the data in the reports.

@iñigoes I've found the Assurance API. The documentation is at https://developer.adobe.com/adobe-assurance-public-apis/. Here, the documentation talks about getting the available endpoints via a GraphQL request.

I haven't done this before, but hopefully, this helps you to use Assurance with your Edge calls.

yuhuisg · Answer

You have two questions here: how to validate that your hits are received by Adobe's endpoints, and how to get your data reported in Analytics.

For the first question:

If you're also sending the data from a website, e.g. via Web SDK, then you can use the AEP Debugger browser extension to help you to validate your hits. When you sign into that extension with your Adobe login, you'll be able to see Adobe's log of received hits.
Another way is through Assurance: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-platform/assurance/home.html. I see in your screenshot that Assurance has already provisioned for you, so you should be able to go in there and see the hits.

For the second question: I suggest that you follow the tutorial at https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/platform-learn/implement-web-sdk/applications-setup/setup-analytics.html?lang=en. You don't need to use Event Forwarding. Instead, you need to set up your Datastream to send your hits to Analytics.

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