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Overview

Power your Chameleon workspace with up-to-date user data straight from your data warehouse. You can sync enriched user data and events from your warehouse, specifically to augment product experiences. Moreover, you can ensure that the data in Chameleon is always up-to-date and in the expected format for your Product and Growth teams.

Supported syncing

For more information about sync modes, refer to the sync modes docs.

Connect to Chameleon

Go to the Destinations overview page and click the Add destination button. Select Chameleon and click Continue. You can then authenticate Hightouch to Chameleon.

Authenticate with credentials

Enter the following required fields into Hightouch:
  • Chameleon API Key.

Sync configuration

Once you’ve set up your Chameleon destination and have a model to pull data from, you can set up your sync configuration to begin syncing data. Go to the Syncs overview page and click the Add sync button to begin. Then, select the relevant model and the Chameleon destination you want to sync to.

Users

Sync data from any source into your Chameleon users.

Record matching

You can match rows in your model with users in Chameleon on the following fields:
  • User uid

Field mapping

You can sync columns from your source to Chameleon custom fields.

Companies

Sync data from any source into your Chameleon companies.

Record matching

You can match rows in your model with users in Chameleon on the following fields:
  • Company Uid

Field mapping

You can sync columns from your source to Chameleon custom fields.

Events

Insert events into Chameleon by user id.

Field mapping

When sending events to Chameleon you can only specify the event name and user id.

Tips and troubleshooting

To see the exact API requests and responses from each sync run, use the live debugger. To get notified by Slack, PagerDuty, SMS, or email when a sync fails, set up sync alerts. If you run into an issue this page doesn’t cover, .

Live debugger

Hightouch provides complete visibility into the API calls made during each of your sync runs. We recommend reading our article on debugging tips and tricks to learn more.
Last modified on March 27, 2023