Segment - How to connect Kissmetrics

First steps

To add Kissmetrics as the Destination make sure to:

• Log in to your Segment account, and navigate to Destinations;
• Inside the Destinations tab, click on the Add Destination button;

• Search for Kissmetrics in Segment’s catalog by either typing in the search bar or checking inside the Analytics category;

• Click on Kissmetrics cart;
• proceed to Configure Kissmetrics.

Configuration process

1. Select the source you want to connect Kissmetrics to;

2. Add a name of your Destination (if at any point you’ll want to change this name, you can do so later on in the destination settings);

That is it! Your base is set. Once you hit Save, you will be redirected to the destination’s Settings.

On the settings page

1. Start with adding the API key.

• Click into the API key row => at the same time, in the new tab, navigate to your Kissmetrics’ Product Settings => copy your Tracking API Key => go back to the Segment’s window and insert the API Key => hit Save.

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2. On the Destination Settings page make sure that the other connection settings are turned ON

3. As a final step, click on this Toggle to enable the Destination

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From this point, you may want to proceed to checking the Setup Guide to learn the basics of Segment’s API and how it works with our data model.

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