With the July 2023 Experience Platform release, the SFTP destination provides new functionality, as listed below:
Create a live outbound connection to your SFTP server to periodically export delimited data files from Adobe Experience Platform.
While Experience Platform supports data exports to SFTP servers, the recommended cloud storage locations to export data are Amazon S3 and Azure Blob.
This section describes which types of audiences you can export to this destination.
Audience origin | Supported | Description |
---|---|---|
Segmentation Service | ✓ | Audiences generated through the Experience Platform Segmentation Service. |
Custom uploads | ✓ | Audiences imported into Experience Platform from CSV files. |
Refer to the table below for information about the destination export type and frequency.
Item | Type | Notes |
---|---|---|
Export type | Profile-based | You are exporting all members of a segment, together with the desired schema fields (for example: email address, phone number, last name), as chosen in the select profile attributes screen of the destination activation workflow. |
Export frequency | Batch | Batch destinations export files to downstream platforms in increments of three, six, eight, twelve, or twenty-four hours. Read more about batch file-based destinations. |
This destination supports dataset exports. For complete information on how to set up dataset exports, read the tutorials:
When exporting audience data, Platform creates a .csv
, parquet
, or .json
file in the storage location that you provided. For more information about the files, see the supported file formats for export section in the audience activation tutorial.
When exporting datasets, Platform creates a .parquet
or .json
file in the storage location that you provided. For more information about the files, see the verify successful dataset export section in the export datasets tutorial.
To connect to the destination, you need the View Destinations and Manage Destinations access control permissions. Read the access control overview or contact your product administrator to obtain the required permissions.
To connect to this destination, follow the steps described in the destination configuration tutorial. In the configure destination workflow, fill in the fields listed in the two sections below.
If you select the SFTP with password authentication type to connect to your SFTP location:
Domain: The address of your SFTP storage location;
Username: The username to log into your SFTP storage location;
Port: The port used by your SFTP storage location;
Password: The password to log into your SFTP storage location.
Encryption key: Optionally, you can attach your RSA-formatted public key to add encryption to your exported files. View an example of a correctly formatted encryption key in the image below.
If you select the SFTP with SSH key authentication type to connect to your SFTP location:
Domain: Fill in the IP address or the domain name of your SFTP account
Port: The port used by your SFTP storage location;
Username: The username to log into your SFTP storage location;
SSH Key: The private SSH key used to log into your SFTP storage location. The private key must be an RSA-formatted, Base64-encoded string, and must not be password-protected.
Encryption key: Optionally, you can attach your RSA-formatted public key to add encryption to your exported files. View an example of a correctly formatted encryption key in the image below.
After establishing the authentication connection to the SFTP location, provide the following information for the destination:
manifest-<<destinationId>>-<<dataflowRunId>>.json
. View a sample manifest file. The manifest file includes the following fields:
flowRunId
: The dataflow run which generated the exported file.scheduledTime
: The time in UTC when the file was exported.exportResults.sinkPath
: The path in your storage location where the exported file is deposited.exportResults.name
: The name of the exported file.size
: The size of the exported file, in bytes.See Activate audience data to batch profile export destinations for instructions on activating audiences to this destination.
To verify if data has been exported successfully, check your SFTP storage and make sure that the exported files contain the expected profile populations.
Refer to the IP address allowlist article if you need to add Adobe IPs to an allowlist.