Zendesk Source

Zendesk is a customer service platform for enterprises, which provides a customer support platform that allows quicker and easier interaction between businesses and customers.

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Getting Started

1. From your workspace’s sources page, click add source.

2. Choose Zendesk.

3. Give the Source a name and add any labels to help you organize and filter your sources. You can give the source any name, but Segment recommends a name that reflects the source itself, as this name autopopulates the schema name. For example, the source name Zendesk creates the schema zendesk.

   Note: You can add multiple instances if you have multiple Zendesk accounts. That’s why we allow you to customize the source’s nickname and schema name!

4. Enter your Zendesk subdomain. The subdomain you use to access your Zendesk portal (e.g. ‘segment’ for segment.zendesk.com)

   Note If you enter segment.zendesk.com as a subdomain instead of just segment, Segment tries to access the host segment.zendesk.com.zendesk.com and you will get a credentials error.

5. Click Authorize to start Zendesk’s OAuth process. Sign in and grant permissions, you’ll be good to go!

Rate Limits

The Zendesk source uses both Zendesk’s Core API and Incremental Exports API. The source’s requests to the Incremental API do not count towards your Zendesk account’s rate limits, but requests to the Core API do. By default, we cap our requests to Zendesk’s Core API to a rate of 200 requests per minute to avoid triggering Zendesk’s Rate Limits. If you’d like us to increase or decrease the request rate for your source, let us know, and we’ll get it set up. We’ll add support for this in the UI soon!

Components

Sync

The Zendesk source is built with a sync component, which means we’ll make requests to their API on your behalf on a 3 hour interval to pull the latest data into Segment. In the initial sync, we’ll grab all the Zendesk objects (and their corresponding properties) according to the Collections Table below. The objects will be written into a separate schema, corresponding to the source instance’s schema name you designated upon creation (ie. zendesk_prod.users).

Our sync component uses an upsert API, so the data in your warehouse loaded using sync will reflect the latest state of the corresponding resource in Zendesk. For example, if ticket_status goes from open to closed between syncs, on its next sync that tickets status will be closed.

The source syncs and warehouse syncs are independent processes. Source runs pull your data into the Segment Hub, and warehouse runs flush that data to your warehouse. Sources will sync with Segment every 3 hours. Depending on your Warehouses plan, we will push the Source data to your warehouse on the interval associated with your billing plan.

At the moment, we don’t support filtering which objects or properties get synced. If you’re interested in this feature, let us know!

Collections

Collections are the groupings of resources we pull from your source.

Collection	Type	Description
users	object	Zendesk Support has three types of users: end-users (your customers), agents, and administrators. End-users request support through tickets. Agents work in Zendesk Support to solve tickets. Agents can be divided into multiple groups and can also belong to multiple groups. Agents don’t have access to administrative configuration in Zendesk Support such as business rules or automations, but can configure their own macros and views. Administrators have all the abilities of agents, plus administrative abilities.
groups	object	When support requests arrive in Zendesk, they can be assigned to a Group. Groups serve as the core element of ticket workflow; support agents are organized into Groups and tickets can be assigned to a Group only, or to an assigned agent within a Group. A ticket can never be assigned to an agent without also being assigned to a Group.
tickets	object	Tickets are the means through which your End-users (customers) communicate with Agents in Zendesk. Note: We pull all tickets updated (or created) in the last year to start by default. If you need more, just let us know and we’ll do a run to pull further back in history.
ticket_fields	object	Customize fields on the ticket form.
activities	object	The activity stream is a per agent event stream. It will give access to the most recent events that relate to the agent polling the API.
attachments	object	This API is for attachments in tickets and forum posts in the Web portal.
organizations	object	Just as agents can be segmented into groups in Zendesk, your customers (end-users) can be segmented into organizations.
ticket_events	events	Returns a stream of changes that occurred on tickets. Each event is tied to an update on a ticket and contains all the fields that were updated in that change. Note: We pull 1 year of ticket events to start by default. If you need more, just let us know and we’ll do a run to pull further back in history.
ticket_metrics	object	All kinds of aggregate metrics about a ticket
satisfaction_ratings	object	If you have enabled satisfaction ratings for your account, this end point allows you to quickly retrieve all ratings.
ticket_comments	object	Ticket comments represent the conversation between requesters, collaborators, and agents. It includes the full body of each comment, public and private. Note: This collection is not included by default. To request it, [contact us]https://segment.com/help/contact/.

In your warehouse, each collection gets its own table. Find below a list of the properties we automatically fetch for each collection. Note The list in this document includes the standard properties only, but doesn’t include your custom fields. (Don’t worry, they’ll be there in your warehouse!)

groups

id	Automatically assigned when creating groups.
url	The API url of this group.
deleted	Deleted groups get marked as such.
name	The name of the group.
created_at	The time the group was created.
updated_at	The time of the last update of the group.
received_at	This timestamp is added to incoming messages as soon as they hit Segment API.

users

id	Automatically assigned when the user is created.
url	We set the “url” field users see in their Warehouse to equal the “id” from Zendesk, rather than the “url” field.
name	The name of the user.
email	The primary email address of this user..
time_zone	The time-zone of this user.
phone	The primary phone number of this user.
locale_id	The language identifier for this user.
locale	The locale for this user.
organization_id	The id of the organization this user is associated with.
role	The role of the user. Possible values: “end-user”, “agent”, “admin”.
verified	The user’s primary identity is verified or not.
external_id	A unique identifier from another system. The API treats the id as case insensitive. Example: ian1 and Ian1 are the same user.
alias	An alias displayed to end users.
active	false if the user has been deleted.
shared	If the user is shared from a different Zendesk Support instance. Ticket sharing accounts only.
shared_agent	If the user is a shared agent from a different Zendesk Support instance. Ticket sharing accounts only.
last_login_at	The last time the user signed in to Zendesk Support.
two_factor_auth_enabled	If two factor authentication is enabled.
signature	The user’s signature. Only agents and admins can have signatures.
details	Any details you want to store about the user, such as an address.
notes	Any notes you want to store about the user.
custom_role_id	A custom role if the user is an agent on the Enterprise plan.
moderator	Designates whether the user has forum moderation capabilities.
ticket_restriction	Specifies which tickets the user has access to. Possible values are: “organization”, “groups”, “assigned”, “requested”, null.
only_private_comments	true if the user can only create private comments.
restricted_agent	If the agent has any restrictions; false for admins and unrestricted agents, true for other agents.
suspended	If the agent is suspended. Tickets from suspended users are also suspended, and these users cannot sign in to the end user portal.
chat_only	Whether or not the user is a chat-only agent.
created_at	The time the user was created.
suspended	The time of the last update of the user.
received_at	This timestamp is added to incoming messages as soon as they hit Segment API.

tickets

id	Automatically assigned when the ticket is created.
url	The API url of this ticket.
external_id	An id you can use to link Zendesk Support tickets to local records.
type	The type of this ticket. Possible values: “problem”, “incident”, “question” or “task”.
subject	The value of the subject field for this ticket.
raw_subject	The dynamic content placeholder, if present, or the “subject” value, if not.
description	The first comment on the ticket.
priority	The urgency with which the ticket should be addressed. Possible values: “urgent”, “high”, “normal”, “low”.
status	The state of the ticket. Possible values: “new”, “open”, “pending”, “hold”, “solved”, “closed”.
recipient	The original recipient e-mail address of the ticket.
requester_id	The user who requested this ticket.
submitter_id	The user who submitted the ticket. The submitter always becomes the author of the first comment on the ticket.
assignee_id	The agent currently assigned to the ticket.
organization_id	The organization of the requester. You can only specify the ID of an organization associated with the requestert.
group_id	The group this ticket is assigned to.
collaborator_ids	The ids of users currently cc’ed on the ticket.
forum_topic_id	The topic this ticket originated from, if any.
problem_id	For tickets of type “incident”, the ID of the problem the incident is linked to.
has_incidents	Is true of this ticket has been marked as a problem, false otherwise.
due_at	If this is a ticket of type “task” it has a due date. Due date format uses ISO 8601 format.
tags	The array of tags applied to this ticket.
sharing_agreement_ids	The ids of the sharing agreements used for this ticket.
created_at	When this record was created.
updated_at	When this record last got updated.
received_at	This timestamp is added to incoming messages as soon as they hit Segment API.

ticket_fields

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id	Automatically assigned upon creation.
url	The URL for this resource.
type	The type of the ticket field: “checkbox”, “date”, “decimal”, “integer”, “regexp”, “tagger”, “text”, or “textarea”. *Type is not editable once created.
slug	The title of the ticket field separated by _.
title	The title of the ticket field.
raw_title	The dynamic content placeholder, if present, or the “title” value, if not.
description	The description of the purpose of this ticket field, shown to users.
raw_description	The dynamic content placeholder, if present, or the “description” value, if not.
position	A relative position for the ticket fields that determines the order of ticket fields on a ticket. Note that positions 0 to 7 are reserved for system fields.
active	Whether this field is available.
required	If it’s required for this field to have a value when updated by agents.
collapsed_for_agents	If this field should be shown to agents by default or be hidden alongside infrequently used fields. Classic interface only.
regexp_for_validation	Regular expression field only. The validation pattern for a field value to be deemed valid..
title_in_portal	The title of the ticket field when shown to end users.
raw_title_in_portal	The dynamic content placeholder, if present, or the “title_in_portal” value, if not.
visible_in_portal	Whether this field is available to end users.
editable_in_portal	Whether this field is editable by end users.
required_in_portal	If it’s required for this field to have a value when updated by end users.
tag	A tag value to set for checkbox fields when checked.
removable	If this field is not a system basic field that must be present for all tickets on the account.
created_at	The time the ticket field was created.
updated_at	The time of the last update of the ticket field.
received_at	This timestamp is added to incoming messages as soon as they hit Segment API.

ticket_metrics

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id	Automatically assigned.
ticket_id	Id of the associated ticket.
group_stations	Number of groups this ticket passed through.
assignee_stations	Number of assignees this ticket had.
reopens	Total number of times the ticket was reopened.
replies	Total number of times ticket was replied to.
reply_time_in_minutes_calendar	Number of minutes to the first reply outside of business hours.
reply_time_in_minutes_business	Number of minutes to the first reply during business hours.
first_resolution_time_in_minutes_calendar	Number of minutes to the first resolution time outside of business hours.
first_resolution_time_in_minutes_business	Number of minutes to the first resolution time during business hours.
full_resolution_time_in_minutes_calendar	Number of minutes to the full resolution outside of business hours.
full_resolution_time_in_minutes_business	Number of minutes to the full resolution during business hours.
agent_wait_time_in_minutes_calendar	Number of minutes the agent spent waiting outside of business hours.
agent_wait_time_in_minutes_business	Number of minutes the agent spent waiting during business hours.
requester_wait_time_in_minutes_calendar	Number of minutes the requester spent waiting during business hours.
requester_wait_time_in_minutes_business	Number of minutes the requester spent waiting outside of business hours.
on_hold_time_in_minutes_calendar	Number of minutes the ticket was on hold during business hours.
on_hold_time_in_minutes_business	Number of minutes the ticket was on hold outside of business hours.
created_at	When this record was created.
updated_at	When this record last got updated.
assignee_updated_at	When the assignee last updated the ticket.
requester_updated_at	When the requester last updated the ticket.
status_updated_at	When the status was last updated.
initially_assigned_at	When the ticket was initially assigned.
assigned_at	When the ticket was last assigned.
solved_at	When the ticket was solved.
latest_comment_added_at	When the latest comment was added.
received_at	This timestamp is added to incoming messages as soon as they hit Segment API.

ticket_events

id	Automatically assigned.
ticket_event_id	Automatically assigned when the ticket is updated.
ticket_id	Id of the associated ticket.
timestamp	Time when the ticket was updated.
updater_id	Id of the user who updated the ticket.
ticket_event_via	How the event was created.
context_client	Refers to the “client” used to submit this ticket change (i.e. browser name and type).
context_location	Plain text name of where the request was made, if available (i.e. country, city).
context_latitude	Latitude of the location where the ticket was changed.
context_longitude	Longitude of the location where the ticket was changed.
via	How the event was created.
via_reference_id

activities

id	Automatically assigned upon creation.
url	The API url of this activity.
verb	The type of activity. Can be tickets.assignment, tickets.comment, or tickets.priority_increase.
title	Description of this activity.
created_at	When this record was created.
updated_at	When this record last got updated.

attachments

id	Automatically assigned upon creation.
file_name	The name of the image file.
content_url	A full URL where the attachment image file can be downloaded.
content_type	The content type of the image. Example value: image/png.
inline	If true, the attachment is excluded from the attachment list and the attachment’s URL can be referenced within the comment of a ticket. Default is false.
size	The size of the image file in bytes.
received_at	This timestamp is added to incoming messages as soon as they hit Segment API.

organizations

id	Automatically assigned when the organization is created.
external_id	A unique external id to associate organizations to an external record.
url	The API url of this organization.
name	A unique name for the organization.
details	Any details obout the organization, such as the address.
notes	Any notes you have about the organization.
group_id	New tickets from users in this organization are automatically put in this group.
shared_tickets	End users in this organization are able to see each other’s tickets.
shared_comments	End users in this organization are able to see each other’s comments on tickets.
created_at	The time the organization was created.
updated_at	The time of the last update of the organization.
received_at	This timestamp is added to incoming messages as soon as they hit Segment API.

satisfaction_ratings

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id	Automatically assigned when the organization is created.
url	The API url of this rating.
assignee_id	The id of agent assigned to at the time of rating.
group_id	The id of group assigned to at the time of rating.
requester_id	The id of ticket requester submitting the rating.
ticket_id	The id of ticket being rated.
score	The rating: “offered”, “unoffered”, “good” or “bad”.
created_at	The time the satisfaction rating got created.
updated_at	The time the satisfaction rating got updated.
received_at	This timestamp is added to incoming messages as soon as they hit Segment API.

ticket_comments

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id	Automatically assigned when the comment is created.
ticket_event_id	Automatically assigned when the comment is created.
ticket_id	The id of ticket being commented.
type	Comment or VoiceComment. The JSON object for voice comments is different.
body	The comment string.
public	true if a public comment; false if an internal note. The initial value set on ticket creation persists for any additional comment unless you change it.
author_id	The id of the comment author.
via	How the comment was created.
created_at	The time the comment was created.
received_at	This timestamp is added to incoming messages as soon as they hit Segment API.

Adding Destinations

Currently only Warehouses are supported for object-cloud sources