What is a source?

A source in RudderStack is the place from which your event data originates. The most common event sources are your apps and web properties, but can include third-party cloud apps, server integrations, and even your own data warehouse.

In the following sections we'll provide a bit more detail on the available source types, with links to the setup guides for each source. If you're new to RudderStack, we recommend going through our Quickstart guide to create your first source using our JavaScript SDK.

SDKs

RudderStack supports open source SDKs for web, mobile, and server applications.

Web

Use the rudder-analytics.js library to track your customer event data from your websites and send it to your specified destinations via RudderStack.

• AMP
• JavaScript

Mobile

RudderStack provides native mobile SDKs for all the top frameworks and mobile operating systems.

• Android
• iOS
• Unity
• Flutter
• Cordova

Server

Track your customer event data from your backend applications and send the data to your specified destinations using our supported server libraries.

• Go
• Node.js
• Python
• React Native
• Ruby
• Java
• .Net
• PHP
• Rust

Cloud Apps

Extract

With RudderStack Cloud Extract, you can collect your raw events and data from different cloud tools such as Facebook Ads, Google Analytics, Marketo, HubSpot, Stripe, and more. You can then build efficient ELT pipelines from these cloud apps to your data warehouse.

• Google Sheets
• Salesforce
• Google Analytics
• Google Ads
• Google Search Console
• Zendesk
• Marketo
• Bing ads
• NetSuite
• Zendesk Chat
• Pipedrive
• Intercom
• Mailchimp
• Mixpanel
• Pardot
• Stripe
• Freshdesk
• Quickbooks
• Active campaign
• Hubspot
• Intercom V2
• SendGrid
• Google AdWords
• Xero
• Facebook Ads

Streaming Sources

These integrations stream event data asynchronously via webhooks to track event data from user interactions.

• Customer.io
• Auth0
• Segment
• AppsFlyer
• App Center
• Extole
• Braze
• Webhook
• Shopify
• Iterable

Reverse ETL

Use your data warehouse as a data source! With our Reverse ETL capabilities, you can tap into your warehouse data as a way to enrich data pipelines elsewhere in your stack, for enhanced customization, personalization, and targeting.

• Redshift
• BigQuery
• Postgres
• ClickHouse
• MySql

API

If possible, we recommend you use a native SDK for tracking and routing user events from your sources. Our SDKs offer automatic tagging of user context, event batching, and retry functionality during delivery failure.

If we don't offer a supported library for your environment, you can send your data directly to the RudderStack HTTP API.