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The Snowplow collector receives data from Snowplow trackers and logs that data to S3 for storage and further processing. Setting up a collector is the first step in the Snowplow setup process.

  1. Choose a Collector
  2. Setup a Collector
## 1. Choose a Collector

There are currently three collectors available:

Collector Description Status
[Cloudfront Collector] cloudfront-collector A simple, robust and scalable collector powered by AWS Cloudfront Production-ready
[Clojure Collector] clojure-collector A Clojure-based collector that enables user tracking across domains. Powered by Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Production-ready
[Scala Stream Collector] scala-stream-collector A Scala-based collector that enables user tracking across domains. Powered by Amazon Kinesis Production-ready

Do you want to track data from mobile apps, application servers and/or 3rd party webhooks?

If so we recommend setting up the [Clojure collector] clojure-collector or [Scala Stream Collector] scala-stream-collector as these support POST requests as well as GET requests.

Are you setting up Snowplow to track users across a single domain, or multiple domains?

If you are tracking users across multiple domains, we recommending setting up the [Clojure collector] clojure-collector or [Scala Stream Collector] scala-stream-collector. This sets user_ids server side, so you can reliably track user journeys across multiple domains. (In contrast, the [Cloudfront collector] cloudfront-collector sets them client side, so users get assigned different user_ids on different domains.)

If you are tracking users across a single domain and don't require mobile app or server side tracking, we recommend setting up the [Cloudfront collector] cloudfront-collector.

Do you want to experiment with real-time event analytics?

Then check out the [Scala Stream Collector] scala-stream-collector.

## 2. Setup your Collector
  1. [Setup the Cloudfront Collector now!] cloudfront-collector
  2. [Setup the Clojure Collector now!] clojure-collector
  3. [Setup the Scala Stream Collector now!] scala-stream-collector

Setup your collector? Then proceed to [step 2: setup a tracker] tracker-setup.

[Return to the setup guide] setup-guide.

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