Source Mixpanel: Support Service Accounts

[misteryeo]

Project Secrets for Mixpanel are being deprecated in favor of Service Accounts. As part of bringing Mixpanel to GA, we should investigate how to support this new method.

[lazebnyi]

@ycherniaiev @igrankova could you clarify did this issue pass vetting?

[igrankova]

@lazebnyi I don't see any vetting task for Mixpanel

[lazebnyi]

@igrankova If it possible could you check credentials for service account?

[igrankova]

@lazebnyi we have 2 service accounts:

If you need creds, there's an option to create a service account and see the creds. I don't see we have the creds on these two. I've created a new Service Account: You can see the creds in the Lastpass: mixpanel.com

[midavadim]

@Andy @lazebnyi

https://developer.mixpanel.com/reference/authentication

Deprecating methods are:

• Project Secret [Deprecating]
• Request Signature [Deprecated]

but our mixpanel source uses:

• Project Token which is not deprecated.

The question: should we still add an additional authentication method: Service Accounts ?

[YowanR]

Thanks @midavadim! Do most of our supported streams fall under only the Mixpanel Ingestion API? ? Based on the information in the MLP, it seems that we support quite a few streams from the Query API. This leads me to believe that we will be needing Auth via Service Account going forward. Since we're pushing Mixpanel to GA, I would be inclined to front-loading this work (but ideally in September as we are currently focused on alpha to beta certification). What do you think?

[midavadim]

@YowanR I suppose that in order to implement additional streams "Service Account" authentication is not required.

But if we need additional auth methods I'll implement it.

The only reason why I ask this question is because the original reason described in the issue is incorrect.

[YowanR]

Thanks for explaining. Since Mixpanel prefers that we use Service Account going forward, I think we should still do this work but it's lower priority for now given @midavadim's explanation above. I suggest that we move this back to our backlog and tackle it in September when we take Mixpanel to GA. Let's focus on alpha to beta connectors for this sprint instead. cc @lazebnyi @YuliiaNahoha -- let's make sure this gets re-prioritize after our 3 week sprint, please.

[midavadim]

Update - our current auth method is deprecating indeed.

So started implementation of service account authentication. But new auth method requires update of all streams - because now we should extract list of granted projects and then run current streams for each project

[YowanR]

Are we tackling this in this sprint? @midavadim @lazebnyi