Kinesis Firehose lacking documentation

[elliottower]

Page: ib/analytics/storing/q/platform/js

Feedback:

Should have more detailed information about how to set up Kinesis Firehose and test it, as the methods on this page do not seem to work. The CLI also only allows you to add a Kinesis Data Stream or Pinpoint Dashboard, not a Firehose, which is confusing--if it is possible to use a Firehose despite this there should be some documentation on how exactly it works

[mauerbac]

hey @elliottower - can you walk us through your use case? Trying to understand how to improve the docs here. What are you trying to accomplish with a firehose?

[elliottower]

Well for one, the CLI elements that you can add are limited to pinpoint dashboard or kinesis data stream, why is there no option to add a firehose? In the documentation for the js amplify analytics it has steps for setting up a firehose to store analytics data (in S3 or similar) but I cannot get it to work and there isn't any real documentation on how to test it or any example code. It would be good to have an example of guide of some sort. For example, there is a blog post for how to get pinpoint to export it's events data into a firehose, and I got that set up easily. It could be that I'm doing something wrong with the data blob and it's not sending because of that but I've copied the same formatting as the page and it isn't working.