06.1.5 · Skill in Product instrumentation

Analytics architecture

How product data flows from the app to the tools where it is analyzed.

Analytics architecture covers client and server tracking, event pipelines, product analytics tools and warehouses. Server-side events are more reliable for important actions. Choices here decide cost, privacy and what questions are easy to answer.

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Overview for Product instrumentation
  • docsStart here
    Planning a full installation ↗
    Twilio Segment docs · 12 min

    A practical walk through deciding what to track, with a tracking plan template and the reasons behind each choice.

  • docsStart here
    Plan your taxonomy ↗
    Amplitude docs · 2026 · 8 min

    How to go from business questions to a small set of events and properties, with naming advice.

  • articleStart here
    Naming conventions: why you need them for clean data ↗
    Twilio Segment · 2026 · 15 min

    Explains the object-action naming pattern and shows how messy event names break analysis later.

Tools

2
  • ToolFreemium
    Twilio Segment

    Collects events once and sends them to analytics, marketing and warehouse tools, with tracking plan enforcement.

  • ToolOpen source
    RudderStack

    Customer data pipeline that collects events and routes them to a warehouse and other tools, with an open-source core.