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Question Invalid Events -

Discussion in 'Unity Analytics' started by cryogee, Oct 8, 2022.

  1. cryogee

    cryogee

    Joined:
    Aug 6, 2009
    Posts:
    132
    Hi

    I see these errors in Event browser
    Event timestamp outside valid boundaries - eventTimestamp
    and this is one of the examples of Event Content

    {
    "eventName": "sceneLoaded",
    "userID": "80cba73d3b690ba56b8c896627429055",
    "sessionID": "2aa9bd01-edc7-420b-ad6f-00bda705858d",
    "eventUUID": "e88880c7-6f3d-45fe-8103-6e053d58d273",
    "eventTimestamp": "2022-10-13 13:15:35 +03:00",
    "eventParams": {
    "sceneName": "ShopMenuScreen"
    }
    }

    But these timestamp are auto set by unity itself and not by me. So why are they erroring out. There are lot of invalid events which makes funnel analysis slightly incorrect
     
    cryogee, Oct 8, 2022
    #1

  2. SebT_Unity

    SebT_Unity

    Unity Technologies

    Joined:
    Jun 21, 2021
    Posts:
    221
    Hi Cryogee,
    Thanks for posting!

    The event shows a date time of October 13th 2022. At the time of writing this post that date is a future date. The user has set their device date and time to a future date. There are a few reasons for this either simply not aware of the wrong date time, attempting mischievous actions or other.

    The data will never be ingested since it falls into Invalid events and will simply be discarded.
    You can verify by running a this query in your sql data explorer.

    select EVENT_DATE, USER_ID from EVENTS
    
where EVENT_NAME = 'sceneLoaded'
    
and EVENT_JSON:sessionID::STRING = '80cba73d3b690ba56b8c896627429055'
    
and EVENT_JSON:sessionID::STRING = '2aa9bd01-edc7-420b-ad6f-00bda705858d'
    
order by USER_ID


    Hope this helps you out.

    All the best
     
    SebT_Unity, Oct 10, 2022
    #2