How to connect AppsFlyer Cohort to Adriel

Detailed instructions to help you set up the data source for AppsFlyer Cohort

Lastly modified on: Tue, 29th Jul, 2025 at 01:31 PM

Prerequisites

• AppsFlyer account
• Set up “Cohort Analytics via Data Locker” feature on the AppsFlyer platform UI
  
  • You must have an Advanced or Enterprise AppsFlyer plan to access Data Locker.

** Note that Adriel provides two different AppsFlyer integrations.

(1) "AppsFlyer" connector uses Master API, which is a REST API that provides on-demand access to campaign performance and user activity data.

(2) On the other hand, "AppsFlyer Cohort" uses a Data Locker feature, which is AppsFlyer’s cloud-based raw data delivery solution, which sends structured raw files to your cloud storage (AWS S3) on a scheduled basis.

Instructions

Step 1: Enable Data Locker on AppsFlyer UI

1. Log into AppsFlyer

• Go to: https://dashboard.appsflyer.com

• Select the app you want to enable Data Locker for.

2. Navigate to Data Locker

• In the left-side menu, go to:
  Export → Data Locker

3. Choose Your Cloud Storage Destination

You’ll be asked to select where you want AppsFlyer to deliver the files:

• Amazon S3 

4. Configure Your Storage Details

(AppsFlyer Guide) Before setting the AWS connection, create an AWS bucket. To learn, how see here.

To set the connection:

1. Enter your AWS S3 bucket name. af- prefix is mandatory, and should be entered manually.
2. Click Test connection.
3. Verify that an error message indicating that the bucket path is invalid isn't displayed.
4. Select whether to Make this connection compatible with Adobe Experience Platform. If selected, click Save and continue to select global-level filters.
5. Click Save. The Report output settings section is displayed.

5. Configure Your Report Output Settings

• File format should be CSV
• File compression should be GZIP
• Recommended max row count is 100K
• For the Expected path, we recommended leaving the default one. What’s important is that the “Versioned” format for the date folder should be left as dt=yyyy-mm-dd. If the format of this date folder is different, it won’t work
  • Example : s3://{bucket}/{prefix}/adops/t=report_name/dt=yyyy-mm-dd/version=0001/*.{compression_formatname}.{file_formatname}

6. Select Reports for All Your Account Apps

• We recommend using the cohort-unified-agency report.

  • This one is combining the 2 other ones, so it’s easier to have both reports for one datasource only.

7. Save

• After confirming your settings, click “Save.”

• You should start receiving files within 24 hours.

Step 2: Connecting AppsFlyer Cohort to Adiriel

1. Move to Adriel's Connections page.

2. Type "AppsFlyer Cohort" into the search bar.

3. Fill in the 5 required fields accordingly to the account that you want to connect to Adriel. 
   Please refer to the S3 connection documentation https://academy.adriel.com/en/how-to-connect-amazon-s3-to-adriel
   
   1. AWS Access Key
   2. AWS Secret
   3. AWS Region
   4. S3 Bucket
   5. Directory Path
   Click "Submit".
4. Fill in the 3 required fields and 1 optional field accordingly to how you want to visualize in Adriel. 
   
   1. App: Select app/apps from the dropdown list.
   2. Cohort Alignment: Choose between First conversion date(cohort) or Event date (cohort aligned on the event date)
      1. This determines how the data is aggregated for this data source. 
   3. Dimensions: Shown dimensions on the list are columns in the exported Appsflyer report files. Only the dimensions selected during the datasource creation will be available for the datasource. 
   4. (Optional) Name: Fill in the data source name. Any identifiable name is sufficient.
5. Click the “Submit” button below to complete the data connection.
   
   It can take up to one working day for your data to arrive.