Unsure about Auto Tracking Usage

[janhesters]

** Which Category is your question related to? **
Analytics

** What AWS Services are you utilizing? **
Amazon Pinpoint

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I asked about tracking with Amplify and got referred to Analytics. I'm currently teaching myself how to use these because I'm having trouble understanding the docs.

I'm using React. I have two questions. 1. Where am I supposed to add the code for the tracking? 2. Is there a way to identify which user created the event?

Here is what I'm currently trying:

async function track() {
  try {
    const user = await Auth.currentAuthenticatedUser();
    const userId = user.username;
    Analytics.autoTrack('pageView', {
      enable: true,
      attributes: { userId },
      type: 'SPA',
    });
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
}

function useTracking() {
  useEffect(() => {
    track();
  }, []);
}

function Home() {
  useTracking();
  return <h2>Home</h2>;
}

function Notes() {
  useTracking();
  return <h2>Notes</h2>;
}

function App() {
  return (
    <Router>
      <div>
        <nav>
          <ul>
            <li>
              <Link to="/">Home</Link>
            </li>
            <li>
              <Link to="/notes/">Notes</Link>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </nav>

        <Route path="/" exact component={Home} />
        <Route path="/notes/" component={Notes} />
      </div>
    </Router>
  );
}

But this doesn't fully work. The route is being recorded, but not the user. Are you supposed to call autoTrack in componentDidMount() / useEffect? Because I tried adding it below my config outside of a Hook and that didn't even record any events. And do I have to track the user like I did under the attributes key? If yes, why could my tracking not be working? If no, how are you supposed to identify users? I'm using Amplify's Auth with Cognito User Pools.

[janhesters]

Solved it, gonna write a blog post about it and link it here.

[jesper-bylund]

Hows the blogpost coming @janhesters ?

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