Unrecognized medium:

[kfitzpatrick]

Hello,

So I’ve been playing around with the Referer_parser, I decided to take my own copy and add to it for the 500+ domains that send traffic to our domains, we call these ‘meta’ (Affiliates). It appears that this is an unaccepted medium and (for some reason) is referencing the user-agent-utils-enrichment which has as far as I can see has nothing to do with Ref_Medium.

Is this response correct or sending me down a rabbit hole?

Apr 20 13:03:57 ip-172-31-40-83 web: Unrecognized medium: 'meta'
Apr 20 13:03:57 ip-172-31-40-83 systemd: web.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 20 13:03:57 ip- systemd: Unit web.service entered failed state.
Apr 20 13:03:57 ip- systemd: web.service failed.
Apr 20 13:03:57 ip- systemd: web.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Apr 20 13:03:57 ip- systemd: Starting This is web daemon...
Apr 20 13:03:57 ip- systemd: Started This is web daemon.
Apr 20 13:04:01 ip- web: [main] WARN com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow.enrich.common.enrichments.registry.UserAgentUtilsEnrichmentConfig$ - user_agent_utils enrichment is deprecated. Please visit here for more information: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/user-agent-utils-enrichment

What outside the referer enrichment decides the acceptable medium? can I change it?

Edit:

What are all possible values of the refr_medium field?

We sometimes get the following question: What are all possible values of the refr_medium field? The possible values are: NULL internal social search email unknown It’s NULL when the page view has no referrer. It’s set to internal when the page URL and referrer URL have the same host, or when the referring domain is configured as internal: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/blob/master/3-enrich/config/enrichments/referer_parser.json The other values are parsed according to the data in …

Does this mean I cannot add in my own additional referer categorisation?

Thanks
Kyle

[Matthew]

@kfitzpatrick

WARN com.snowplowanalytics.snowplow.enrich.common.enrichments.registry.UserAgentUtilsEnrichmentConfig$ - user_agent_utils enrichment is deprecated. Please visit here for more information: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/user-agent-utils-enrichment

This is just a deprecation warning for that enrichment; it doesn’t appear to be related to the fact that the meta value for the refr_medium property is unrecognised.

My guess is at the moment it’s only possible to specify one of the values detailed in that linked post, I don’t see where it would be possible to set a custom value for that property but I will endeavour to find out for you and update my post with any results (this may take a while).

[ihor]

@kfitzpatrick, only 5 mediums are supported (it is hardcoded).

I don’t think that user-agent-utils-enrichment is a part of referer parser enrichment. It’s independent and deprecated “User Agent utils” enrichment which presumably still enabled in your pipeline. The logs are coming from both (in your output).

[kfitzpatrick]

@ihor Thanks for confirming