Load Citrix Analytics data to DuckDB

Citrix Analytics ODATA API provides access to performance data and analytics events from the Citrix Analytics service. Everything needed to build a working Citrix Analytics → DuckDB pipeline is on this page: the API's base URL, authentication, endpoints, pagination and incremental field — plus a prompt that hands the whole job to your coding agent.

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Build your Citrix Analytics to DuckDB pipeline

Paste this prompt into Claude, Codex, or Cursor. The agent does the rest.

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Run uvx dlthub-init@latest to build a pipeline from Citrix Analytics to DuckDB and run it on dltHub

That scaffolds a dltHub workspace and installs the dltHub AI harness — the project rules, the secrets-management skill, and the dlt MCP server your agent needs to work safely. From there it reads the Citrix Analytics API, proposes the endpoints to load, then writes, runs and validates the pipeline while you review rather than type. Credentials are inspected through MCP tools, so your agent never reads secrets.toml itself. How the LLM-native workflow works →

Prefer to write it yourself? Every fact the agent uses is below.

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Citrix Analytics API at a glance

These values come from the Citrix Analytics API reference — the authoritative source if anything here looks out of date.

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How do I authenticate with the Citrix Analytics API?

Authentication requires a Citrix Cloud bearer token obtained via client credentials. Requests must include an 'Authorization' header with the value 'CwsAuth bearer={token}' and a mandatory 'Citrix-CustomerId' header.

1. Get your credentials

1. Log in to the Citrix Cloud console.
2. Navigate to Identity and Access Management > API Access > Service Principals.
3. Click Create service principal to generate your Client ID and Client Secret. Ensure you save these immediately as the secret will only be visible once.
4. Locate your Customer ID (CCID) in your Citrix Cloud account information.
5. Use your Client ID, Client Secret, and Customer ID to request a bearer token via the Citrix Cloud OAuth 2.0 token endpoint: POST https://api.cloud.com/cctrustoauth2/{customerid}/tokens/clients.
6. The request must include: grant_type='client_credentials', client_id={your_client_id}, and client_secret={your_client_secret}.
7. The response provides an access_token, which is valid for one hour and must be used as a 'CwsAuth bearer={access_token}' value in the Authorization header for subsequent API requests.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

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[sources.citrix_analytics_source]
citrix_customer_id = "your_customer_id_here"
citrix_client_id = "your_client_id_here"
citrix_client_secret = "your_client_secret_here"

dlt reads this file automatically at runtime. With the harness, the setup-secrets skill prompts you for the values and never handles the raw credential in chat. For production, see setting up credentials with dlt.

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What Citrix Analytics data can I load into DuckDB?

These are the Citrix Analytics endpoints dlt can load into DuckDB:

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How do I load only new Citrix Analytics records?

The Citrix Analytics API reference does not document a timestamp or sequence field for these endpoints, so there is nothing to advertise here as verified. Pick a field from the endpoints table above that increases with every write, then set it as the cursor_path.

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{"name": "sessions", "endpoint": {
    "path": "/casodata/sessions?year={year}&month={month}&day={day}",
    # Replace with a field that increases on every write.
    "incremental": {"cursor_path": "REPLACE_ME", "initial_value": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"},
}}

On the first run dlt loads everything from initial_value; on every run after that it requests only what changed and appends with write_disposition="merge" if you set a primary key. See incremental loading.

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What does the generated Citrix Analytics pipeline look like?

A standard dlt REST API pipeline — the same code you would write by hand, loading https://api.cloud.com/casodata and https://api.cloud.com/cctrustoauth2/{customerid}/tokens/clients from the Citrix Analytics API into DuckDB:

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import dlt
from dlt.sources.rest_api import RESTAPIConfig, rest_api_resources

@dlt.source
def citrix_analytics_source(client_id_client_secret_customer_id=dlt.secrets.value):
    config: RESTAPIConfig = {
        "client": {
            "base_url": "https://api.cloud.com/casodata",
            "auth": {"type": "bearer", "token": client_id_client_secret_customer_id},
        },
        "resources": [
            {"name": "sessions", "endpoint": {"path": "/casodata/sessions?year={year}&month={month}&day={day}"}},
            {"name": "sessions_filtered", "endpoint": {"path": "/casodata/sessions?year={year}&month={month}&day={day}&$filter={filter}"}}
        ],
    }
    yield from rest_api_resources(config)


def load_citrix_analytics_to_duckdb() -> None:
    pipeline = dlt.pipeline(
        pipeline_name="citrix_analytics_pipeline",
        destination="duckdb",
        dataset_name="citrix_analytics_data",
    )
    load_info = pipeline.run(citrix_analytics_source())
    print(load_info)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    load_citrix_analytics_to_duckdb()

Run it with python citrix_analytics_pipeline.py. The agent iterates on this until it loads cleanly — you review and approve, rather than write it from scratch.

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How do I query Citrix Analytics data in DuckDB?

dlt creates one table per resource. Query the loaded data with Python or SQL — or ask your agent to, through the MCP server's execute_sql_query tool.

Python (pandas DataFrame):

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import dlt

data = dlt.pipeline("citrix_analytics_pipeline").dataset()
df = data.sessions.df()
print(df.head())

SQL:

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SELECT * FROM citrix_analytics_data.sessions LIMIT 10;

See querying your data with dataset and exploring it in marimo notebooks.

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How do I deploy the Citrix Analytics to DuckDB pipeline in production?

The pipeline runs locally, which is ideal for prototyping and one-off analysis. When you need it on a schedule, monitored on every load, and shared with your team, deploy the same dlt code on the dltHub platform — no infrastructure to maintain. The prompt above already ends with "run it on dltHub", so your agent can take it there directly.

• Deploy & schedule — run the pipeline as a managed job with automatic retries.
• Monitor — observable job queues, alerting, and load metrics for every run.
• Transform — promote raw Citrix Analytics loads into governed, documented models.
• Visualize & share — explore data in notebooks and publish live dashboards instead of static screenshots.

Book a demo →

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What other destinations can I load Citrix Analytics data to?

dlt loads into any of these — only the destination argument changes:

Set dlt.pipeline(destination="snowflake") and add credentials in .dlt/secrets.toml. On the dltHub platform the same pipeline runs against a managed Iceberg lakehouse. See the full destinations list.

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Next steps

• Ready for production? Book a demo of the dltHub platform →
• dlt LLM-native workflow docs
• REST API source reference
• Join the dlt community on Slack