Snowplow Inspector

Name: Snowplow Inspector
Rating: 4.785714285714286 (14 reviews)
Author: Snowplow Analytics

Add a new tab in Developer Tools to show Snowplow Analytics beacon information.

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Snowplow Inspector is a Chrome extension that enhances your developer experience by adding a dedicated tab in the Developer Tools to review Snowplow Analytics beacon information easily. It lists all tracking events and displays tracking parameters in a human-friendly format. The extension supports both GET and POST requests, automatically decoding and parsing Self-Describing Events and Custom Entities.

Additionally, Snowplow Inspector validates your Entities and Events against Iglu schemas automatically. You can connect to your production Iglu Repositories or load custom schemas locally for testing purposes. This tool streamlines the verification process for your Snowplow tagging implementation, ensuring accuracy and efficiency. It also respects user privacy by sending only anonymous usage data, which can be opted out via the extension's options.

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Version:

0.3.9 Last updated: 2025-02-28

Creation date:

2019-11-25

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Permissions:

identity
storage
declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

Host permissions:

*://iglucentral.com/*

Size:

226.00KB

Email:

in*****@snowplow.io

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Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-09

Ranking

# 8,675 ▲ 71

Other rankings

#1675 in Developer Tools #83 in developer tools keyword 60 ▲ 3 #137 in analytics keyword 64 ▲ 17 #174 in event keyword 21 ▲ 19

Publisher Change History

2024-02-01: Email was changed from co*****@poplindata.com to mi*****@snowplowanalytics.com

2024-04-16: Email was changed from mi*****@snowplowanalytics.com to in*****@snowplow.io

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User reviews

Snowplow Inspector is widely praised as an essential, well-maintained Chrome extension that significantly simplifies the inspection and debugging of Snowplow user events. Developers find it superior to other tools for verifying event names, properties, and payloads during integration. However, multiple users expressed privacy concerns about the extensive permissions the extension requests, including access to sensitive data like passwords and browsing history.

Pros

Highly effective for inspecting and debugging Snowplow user events on websites
Essential and must-have tool for developers integrating Snowplow events
Makes debugging Snowplow payloads much easier and more efficient
Well maintained and supported by the Snowplow team
Preferred over other similar tools for Snowplow implementation

Cons

Concerns about the extension's access permissions, such as requiring access to passwords, browsing history, and geolocation

Recent reviews

Incredibly well maintained tool by the Snowplow team that helps to inspect user events captured on website. This is a must use for developers aiming to integrate events onto their site to inspect event names, event properties, and attached entities!

Mo*****, 2025-06-03

As a Snowplow co-founder I was a bit old school - bring up Developer tools and eyeball the Network requests tab directly. Hello tp2! But I was hugely missing out - the Snowplow Inspector is *excellent*, and once you start using it you can't go back. Big thanks to the Snowplow Australia team (formerly Poplin) for creating this!

Al*****, 2024-02-11

Essential for debugging your Snowplow implementation

Ra*****, 2024-01-31

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Snowplow Inspector requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Medium Access to developer tools, typically low risk unless it's used to inspect or manipulate data improperly.
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Risk likelihood

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Snowplow Inspector has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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