How to integrate Mixpanel into a Spring Boot application

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Mixpanel is a wonderful product analytics tool which can be easy integrated in any Spring Boot Java application. We are using mixpanel in our keybin application and added a short review on mixpanel here.

Below is a step by step tutorial which shows how to integrate Mixpanel product analytics platform into a Spring Boot Java application.

• add the latest mixpanel dependency into your pom.xml (if you're using maven):

• configure in your application.yml the mixpanel token (you can find your project token in the project settings dialog of the Mixpanel web application) used in all your requests to mixpanel:

• configure your ApplicationProperties.java to read mixpanel token:

• create enumeration events you want to send to mixpanel:

• add a dedicated mixpanel service which will connect and send events to mixpanel:

• finally, add a REST Controller to use the mixpanel service (in this case we are using a REST Controller which share a key):

You can read more on mixpanel Java integration page.

by Marian — Founder and CEO keybin App

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