Apollo adds and configures the Apollo Quality Assurance Extension, which helps to ensure the accuracy of Adobe Analytics data. It is a companion extension for Adobe Analytics that inspects each beacon prior to being sent, validating for syntax and content. View a demonstration of tag validation with Apollo QAX in the video below:

There are optional manual configurations users can make within this extension in Experience Platform Launch. It’s important to note that all settings changes must be saved and built into a relevant launch property library to take effect.

Enabled Environments

This option allows you to enable or disable the extension for libraries in any or all of the 3 launch environments.

Airbrake Integration

Apollo QAX includes an optional integration with Airbrake for logging errors. Airbrake is a paid tool for use with a subscription, which provides error monitoring and performance management for your implementation so you can be notified of and resolve issues faster.

The configuration to enable the Airbrake Integration with Apollo QAX requires the Airbrake Project ID and Project Key.

The Project ID and API Key can be retrieved from the Airbrake project settings after a project is created in Airbrake.

Other Settings

The other settings in the Apollo QAX extension affect how QAX validates Adobe Analytics tags. Apollo QAX enables these settings by default but users may choose to disable any of the validations. These settings include:

General Settings

Range Validations
Currency Code Validations
Miscellaneous Validations
s.events Validations
s.products Validations

If manual configuration changes are made within the extension after it’s configuration by Apollo, here is how Apollo will interact with those changes during subsequent builds:

Section	Manual Change Made	Apollo’s Treatment
Installed	Disable Extension	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Installed	Uninstall Extension	Causes deployment to fail (even redeployments of initial build that created the extensions)
Enable Environments	Enable A Launch Environment	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Enable Environments	Disable A Launch Environment	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Airbrake Integration	Airbrake Project Id/Key Additions	Apollo does not overwrite the change
General Settings	Increase Maximum Evar	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Range Validations	Disable Props	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Range Validations	Disable Evars	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Range Validations	Disable Listvars	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Range Validations	Disable Hierarchy Vars	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Misc. Validations	Disable Variable Casing	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Misc. Validations	Disable Byte Limits	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Misc. Validations	Disable Pagetype	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Misc. Validations	Disable Pagename With Pagetype	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Misc. Validations	Disable Leading Spaces	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Currency Code Validations	Disable Currencycode Format	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Currency Code Validations	Disable Currencycode For Currency Events	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Currency Code Validations	Currency Event Removals	Apollo does not overwrite the change
Currency Code Validations	Currency Event Additions	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Events Validations	Disable No Spaces	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Events Validations	Disable No Repeating Commas	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Events Validations	Disable Only Numeric Values	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Events Validations	Disable Serialization Keys	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Events Validations	Disable Serialization Key Character Limit	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Events Validations	Disable Purchaseid For Purchase Event	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Products Validations	Disable Setting Of Product Syntax Merch Vars	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Products Validations	Product Syntax Merch Var Removals	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Products Validations	Product Syntax Merch Var Additions	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Products Validations	Disable Setting Of Non Product Syntax Merch Vars	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Products Validations	Disable Byte Limit For Product String Category	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Products Validations	Disable Byte Limit For Product String Name	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Products Validations	Disable Product Name Exists	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Products Validations	Disable Only 6 Parts In The Products Variable	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Products Validations	Disable Product Quantity Is A Number	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Products Validations	Disable Product Cost Is A Number	Apollo does not overwrite the change
S.Products Validations	Disable Cost And Quantity On Non Purchase Beacons	Apollo does not overwrite the change

Apollo QAX for Ensuring Tags are Vendor Complaint

For each of the enabled configuration options in the Apollo QAX extension and for each environment QAX is enabled, Apollo runs a compliance test on any outgoing Adobe Analytics tag. If you are using the Launch & DTM Switch Chrome Extension with Debug mode enabled you will see console logs of the test results when each Adobe Analytics tag is fired.

In the event that a test fails you will see both the log output from the initial running of the test as well as the error information. The error information includes the environment the error occurred in as well as more information around how the tag failed the test:

If the Airbrake Integration Settings are configured, then any errors are also logged and aggregated in Airbrake.

For more information on Apollo QAX, you can read the technical documentation for the extension here.

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Extension : Apollo QAX

Enabled Environments

Airbrake Integration

Other Settings

Apollo QAX for Ensuring Tags are Vendor Complaint