Kissmetrics

Kissmetrics is a customer analytics platform that provides detailed insights into customer behavior and engagement patterns, helping businesses understand the customer journey, optimize conversion funnels, and make data-driven decisions to improve customer lifetime value and retention.

Power end-to-end data operations for your Kissmetrics API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Kissmetrics connector is purpose-built for Kissmetrics, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Kissmetrics or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Kissmetrics workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating a Kissmetrics credential, you need to have a Kissmetrics account and obtain your username and password credentials. The username and password are required to authenticate with the Kissmetrics API using Basic Authentication.

To obtain your credentials, sign in to your Kissmetrics account using your existing username and password. These are the same credentials you use to access the Kissmetrics web interface. The username and password are sent in the Authorization header using Basic Authentication for all API requests to the Kissmetrics API. The Kissmetrics API provides access to various analytics data including products, events, and customer behavior metrics. For detailed information about API authentication, available endpoints, and API usage, refer to the Kissmetrics API authorization documentation and Kissmetrics API reference.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Field	Required	Secret	Description
Username	Yes	No	Your username
Password	Yes	Yes	Your password.

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

New Credential Overlay – Kissmetrics

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Kissmetrics uses Basic Authentication for all API requests. Enter your Kissmetrics username in the Username field. This is the username you use to sign in to your Kissmetrics account. The username is used along with your password to authenticate API requests using Basic Authentication.

4. Enter your Kissmetrics password in the Password field. This is the password you use to sign in to your Kissmetrics account. The password is used along with your username to authenticate API requests using Basic Authentication. The password is sensitive information and must be kept confidential.

   Keep your password secure and do not share it publicly. The password provides access to your Kissmetrics account data and should be treated as sensitive information. Your Kissmetrics username and password are the same credentials you use to access the Kissmetrics web interface. The credentials are sent in the Authorization header using Basic Authentication for all API requests to the Kissmetrics API. If your password is compromised, you should immediately change it in your Kissmetrics account settings. For detailed information about API authentication, available endpoints, and API usage, see the Kissmetrics API authorization documentation and Kissmetrics API reference.

5. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Kissmetrics connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Kissmetrics account, and click Next; or, create a new Kissmetrics credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Kissmetrics endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

Get Products

Get Products

• This endpoint automatically retrieves a list of products for the authorized user from your Kissmetrics account. No additional configuration is required beyond selecting this endpoint template.
• The endpoint uses GET requests to https://query.kissmetrics.io/v3/products. The endpoint URL is fixed and does not require any path parameters.
• The endpoint uses pagination (iteration.type: paging.incrementing.offset) to retrieve all products. Pagination starts from offset 0 and uses the offset query parameter to navigate through pages. The limit parameter controls how many records are returned per page, with an expected 50 records per page. The endpoint will automatically fetch all pages until all products are retrieved.
• The response data path is $.data[*], which extracts all product objects from the data array in the API response.

This endpoint retrieves a list of all products associated with your Kissmetrics account. The endpoint requires Basic Authentication with your username and password, which is handled automatically by your credential configuration. The endpoint supports pagination through the offset and limit parameters, which allows you to retrieve large lists of products efficiently. For detailed information about fetching products, pagination, and API response formats, see the Kissmetrics API reference.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

Kissmetrics data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Kissmetrics API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates or when custom API configurations are needed. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

Kissmetrics API endpoints typically follow the pattern https://query.kissmetrics.io/v3/{endpoint_path}, and the API typically returns data in JSON format. The endpoint requires Basic Authentication with your username and password, which is handled automatically by your credential configuration. For detailed information about Kissmetrics API endpoints, authentication, and available APIs, see the Kissmetrics API reference.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new Kissmetrics data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.