Exclude internal IP from RTCDP

Question

We have user data flowing into AEP Dataset created using schema. The schema is populated by data collection tags rules.

We have observed that there is some internal traffic which is disturbing user profiles stitching. We are now looking to exclude the internal traffic using IP exclusion. I think there can be two ways to achieve this:

1. Develop need to add a flag(True/False) based on matching IP ranges and exclude it either in rule condition to restrict edge network call or exclude while creating audience segment using flag response.

2. Write a custom code in AEP extension to check IP ranges and abort.

Any reference about which approach should work best and what should be the code if we go the second way. Also, do we need to implement user consent for IP address validation.

PavanBabuGandla_Analytics · Accepted Answer

As of now we cannot do this , ibut i suggest you to implemant this in data layer execution.

There are couple of work arounds depending on where you want to use the event

data layer: like you suggested if there is a way to tag a user as internal this you could exclude this hit within adobe launch config
You could use regex in data prep to match the range and add a flag to field in schema
Use the flag added via data prep to ignore/filter events in analytics or event forwarding

Hope that helps!

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