Using Custom Properties to Segment Data

Derive powerful insights into costs and user behaviors using custom properties in Helicone. Learn to track environments, user types, and more.

Use Custom Properties to segment your data and derive meaningful insights. This feature can help you understand the costs and behavior of different user groups, and gain other insights to help inform strategic decisions and optimizations.

Here are some methods that we recommend for data segmentation:

Use Case 1

Tracking Environments

Use Case 2

User Segmentation

Use Case 3

Advanced Segmentation

If you have other use cases, we’d love to know! Send us an email or schedule a call with us.

Use Case 1: Tracking Environments

Organizations use Custom Properties to track different environments (i.e. development, staging, and production). To distinguish between these environments, you can create a Helicone-Property-Environment property.

Quick Start

1. Add the 'Environment' property and assign a value.

   client.chat.completions.create(
       # ...
       extra_headers={
           "Helicone-Property-Environment": "development",
       }
   )
   
2. Send a request.

   You will then see the Environment property appear in the Requests page.

   

   You can choose to hide the custom property by deselecting it under Columns.

   
3. Filter by custom properties

   
4. View metrics associated with a custom property.

   Go to the Properties page, and select Environment. You will see metrics associated with this custom property.

   

Use Case 2: User Segmentation

A common method of data segmentation is by user type. For example, you might want to distinguish between paying and free users to understand their behaviors and costs.

Quick Start

To do this, create a user_type custom property and assign either “paid” or “free”.

client.chat.completions.create(
    # ...
    extra_headers={
        "Helicone-Property-User-Type": "free",
    }
)

Then, you can filter by paid/free users, or view associated metrics in the same way.

Data segmentation can become powerful when you combine it with other properties.

Further Segmentation

Suppose you want to understand the behavior of paying users when they use a specific feature (i.e. spellcheck). You can add a Feature custom property.

client.chat.completions.create(
    # ...
    extra_headers={
        "Helicone-Property-User-Type": "paid",
        "Helicone-Property-Feature": "spellcheck",
    }
)

You can create highly detailed segment by adding even more custom properties. For example, you may segment users further by plan and Job ID. There are no limits on the number of custom properties you can add.

client.chat.completions.create(
    # ...
    extra_headers={
        "Helicone-Property-User-Type": "paid",
        "Helicone-Property-Feature": "spellcheck",
        "Helicone-Property-Plan": "enterprise",
        "Helicone-Property-Job-UUID": "1234-5678-9012-3456",
    }
)

Analyzing Segmented Data

Segmented data can provide you with invaluable insights. For example, you might discover that your free users are using the spellcheck feature more than your paid users. This could signal an opportunity to market this feature more aggressively within your premium plans.

Use Case 3: Advanced Segmentation

You can refine your segments further by incorporating other properties. The more detailed your segments, the more accurate insights you can derive. Here are some examples:

• Location: Helicone-Property-Location
• Device type: Helicone-Property-Device-Type
• Use activity level: Helicone-Property-Activity-Level

Remember, the key is to select properties that best align with your objectives and that will yield valuable insights upon analysis.

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