Replace {subdomain} in the endpoint below with your Vitally subdomain.

You can find your subdomain in the URL used to log into Vitally (i.e., https://yoursubdomain.vitally.io

Create/update an account

POST https://{subdomain}.api.vitally.io/analytics/v1/account

This endpoint will create or update an account in Vitally based on the accountId parameter.

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Content-Type*	string	Set to `application/json`
Authorization*	string	Set to `Basic [YOUR_API_TOKEN]`

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
accountId*	string	The unique ID of this account in your system
traits	object	A JSON object containing the traits of this account. All account messages should specify, at minimum, a `"name"` trait indicating the name of the account.
timestamp	string	Required if `messageId` is not included. An ISO 8601 UTC date string - i.e. `'2018-01-01T00:00:00Z'` - for the time the message was sent. If `timestamp` is not included, it will default to the time the API server receives your message.
messageId	string	Required if `timestamp` is not included A unique ID for this message, used to de-duplicate messages. We recommend sending `messageId`, but if it is not included and `timestamp` is included, it will be set to a hash of the message.
organizationId	string	If you have organizations enabled, you may associate the account with an organization by providing organizationId

200 When your account is created/updated, you'll receive

{"message":"Success."}

Example

An example curl request describing Vitally would look like:

curl -X POST https://{subdomain}.api.vitally.io/analytics/v1/account \
  -H "Authorization: Basic [your token]" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "accountId": "123456",
  "traits": {
    "name": "Vitally",
    "avatar": "http://logo.clearbit.com/vitally.io",
    "status": "trialing",
    "trialEndDate": "2018-06-01T00:00:00.000Z"
  },
  "messageId": "7ac1c682-a54b-4d0d-9f56-d6d3618f4915",
  "timestamp": "2018-05-15T12:31:12.123Z"
}'

Special traits

Vitally has special logic to handle the following Account traits:

name: defines the account's name in Vitally
avatar: defines the account's avatar in Vitally

Vitally's HTTPS Analytics API - Organization

Vitally's HTTPS Analytics API - User

Vitally's HTTPS Analytics API - Track

Vitally's HTTPS Analytics API - Batch

Vitally's HTTPS Analytics API - Unlink

Vitally's HTTPS Analytics API - Account

Create/update an account

Headers

Request Body

Example

Special traits