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Rules and Rule IDs

The diagnostics stream is meant to be used for debugging your integration, and understanding which groups a user is being bucketed into. The following defines the different Rules you will see, and what they mean.

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| **Rule** | **Meaning** |
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| Not started | The experiment has not been started, so the allocation groups are not determined yet |
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| Holdout | The user is in a holdout that this experiment references, so they are not in the experiment |
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| Layer Assignment | The user is not allocated to this experiment because they are bucketed to a different part of the Layer |
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| Targeting Gate | The user does not meet the requirements for the targeting gate |
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| Not Allocated | The user is not allocated to this experiment because they do not meet the rollout % |
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| {group name}{override name} | The user was forcefully bucketed into a given group by an experiment override |
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| {group name} | The user was bucketed into this experiment group |
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| Abandoned | "Make Decision" selected the control group. This experiment has been abandoned. |
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| {group name} (Launched) | "Make Decision" selected this group as the launch group, so the user is seeing the launched experience. |
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