This article explains which environments are available, and how you can use them for your platform, product, or service.
Why have we introduced environments?
Our environments feature can be used to test and harden features before they appear on your audience’s screens. The ability to test in this way helps prevent publishing any incorrect content and detect any bugs that may have otherwise been passed onto your users.
Change the environment you’re in by using the environment switcher in the top bar of our interface. Continue reading to learn more about each environment.
Which environments are available?
All existing and new Spaces are available in three environments:
Development
We created the development environment so that developers can test, create and iterate without causing any disruption to the live environment.
Staging
We created the staging environment so that features can be perfected, and de-bugged before they’re published.
Production
The production environment is what your audience will see on your product, platform, or app. Anything published and served within this environment will be live for selected Tribes.
What’s shared across environments and what isn’t?
We’ve updated our interface to surface which environment you’re in and revised our page descriptions and UI messaging to communicate the impact of making a change for your other environments.
| Analytics | Unique to each environment. |
| API keys | Unique to each environment. |
| Collections | Common across all environments. |
| Contextual properties | Common across all environments. |
| Event data | Unique to each environment. |
| Experience templates | Common across all environments, but Scenarios unique. See Scenarios. |
| Funnels | Unique to each environment. |
| Plugins | Common across all environments. |
| Scenarios (including on/off state) | Unique to each environment. |
| Sections | Common across all environments, but experiences within a section and their scenarios are unique to each environment. |
| SDKs | Unique to each environment. |
| Tribes | Common across all environments but audience data remains unique. See user and visitor activity. |
| User and visitors | Unique to each environment. |
| User tags | Common across all environments. |
What to read next?
Continue reading about your Space.