Just the other day I looked at a team member and said, "You know what would be great? A Mixpanel API so I can just pull out the data I need on a regular basis and put in on a dashboard so we are always looking at the same metrics"
BAM.
BAM.
In my mind, the whole value of these providers is that they make that one kind of analysis really easy and pretty. But if you feel like you're outgrowing that and want to slice your data in new ways, I don't think you'd choose Mixpanel for their data capture alone, right? So is it just that the cost of Mixpanel is sunk and so might as well get the data they're already recording out?
You are what you measure, this had made it easy for us to centralize our data.
(Disclaimer: I work for Treasure Data. That said, there's also an open source way to do this with Embulk + many common SQL databases. See https://github.com/embulk)