TL;DR
This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps:
- set up Mailgun as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
- set up MongoDB as a destination connector
- define which data you want to transfer and how frequently
You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud.
This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.
What is Mailgun
Mailgun is a well-known provider of email API services you can easily use to send, validate, and receive emails through your domain at scale. Mailgun also assists you to track the performance of your sent emails with robust open, click, bounce, and delivery tracking. It has remaining an email validation service, powered by its email-sending cache, that provides some of the most accurate validation results on the market. You can easily create personalized emails targeted at a specific audience.
What is MongoDB
MongoDB is a database that powers crucial applications and systems for global businesses. Designed for developers and specializing in the areas of open source, software development, and databases, it offers functionality such as horizontal scaling, automatic failover, and the capability to assign data to a location.
Prerequisites
- A Mailgun account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
- A MongoDB account.
- An active Airbyte Cloud account, or you can also choose to use Airbyte Open Source locally. You can follow the instructions to set up Airbyte on your system using docker-compose.
Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that consolidates and streamlines the process of extracting and loading data from multiple data sources to data warehouses. It offers pre-built connectors, including Mailgun and MongoDB, for seamless data migration.
When using Airbyte to move data from Mailgun to MongoDB, it extracts data from Mailgun using the source connector, converts it into a format MongoDB can ingest using the provided schema, and then loads it into MongoDB via the destination connector. This allows businesses to leverage their Mailgun data for advanced analytics and insights within MongoDB, simplifying the ETL process and saving significant time and resources.
Step 1: Set up Mailgun as a source connector
1. First, you need to create an API key in your Mailgun account. To do this, log in to your Mailgun account and navigate to the "API Keys" section. Click on the "Create New API Key" button and give your key a name.
2. Once you have created your API key, copy it to your clipboard.
3. In Airbyte, navigate to the "Sources" tab and click on the "Add Source" button.
4. Select "Mailgun" from the list of available sources.
5. In the "Configure Source" screen, enter a name for your Mailgun source connector.
6. Paste your Mailgun API key into the "API Key" field.
7. Enter the domain associated with your Mailgun account in the "Domain" field.
8. If you want to limit the number of emails that are synced, you can enter a date range in the "Start Date" and "End Date" fields.
9. Click on the "Test Connection" button to ensure that your credentials are correct and that Airbyte can connect to your Mailgun account.
10. If the test is successful, click on the "Create" button to save your Mailgun source connector.
11. You can now use your Mailgun source connector to sync data with other destinations in Airbyte.
Step 2: Set up MongoDB as a destination connector
Step 3: Set up a connection to sync your Mailgun data to MongoDB
Once you've successfully connected Mailgun as a data source and MongoDB as a destination in Airbyte, you can set up a data pipeline between them with the following steps:
- Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
- Choose your source: Select Mailgun from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
- Select your destination: Choose MongoDB from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
- Configure your sync: Define the frequency of your data syncs based on your business needs. Airbyte allows both manual and automatic scheduling for your data refreshes.
- Select the data to sync: Choose the specific Mailgun objects you want to import data from towards MongoDB. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
- Select the sync mode for your streams: Choose between full refreshes or incremental syncs (with deduplication if you want), and this for all streams or at the stream level. Incremental is only available for streams that have a primary cursor.
- Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
- Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from Mailgun to MongoDB according to your settings.
Remember, Airbyte keeps your data in sync at the frequency you determine, ensuring your MongoDB data warehouse is always up-to-date with your Mailgun data.
Use Cases to transfer your Mailgun data to MongoDB
Integrating data from Mailgun to MongoDB provides several benefits. Here are a few use cases:
- Advanced Analytics: MongoDB’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your Mailgun data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within Mailgun alone.
- Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with Mailgun, syncing to MongoDB allows you to centralize your data for a holistic view of your operations, and to set up a change data capture process so you never have any discrepancies in your data again.
- Historical Data Analysis: Mailgun has limits on historical data. Syncing data to MongoDB allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
- Data Security and Compliance: MongoDB provides robust data security features. Syncing Mailgun data to MongoDB ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
- Scalability: MongoDB can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding Mailgun data.
- Data Science and Machine Learning: By having Mailgun data in MongoDB, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
- Reporting and Visualization: While Mailgun provides reporting tools, data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Looker (Google Data Studio) can connect to MongoDB, providing more advanced business intelligence options. If you have a Mailgun table that needs to be converted to a MongoDB table, Airbyte can do that automatically.
Wrapping Up
To summarize, this tutorial has shown you how to:
- Configure a Mailgun account as an Airbyte data source connector.
- Configure MongoDB as a data destination connector.
- Create an Airbyte data pipeline that will automatically be moving data directly from Mailgun to MongoDB after you set a schedule
With Airbyte, creating data pipelines take minutes, and the data integration possibilities are endless. Airbyte supports the largest catalog of API tools, databases, and files, among other sources. Airbyte's connectors are open-source, so you can add any custom objects to the connector, or even build a new connector from scratch without any local dev environment or any data engineer within 10 minutes with the no-code connector builder.
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