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Destination Filters Clarification [DOC-562]
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Destination Filters let you prevent certain data from flowing into a destination.
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Use Destination Filters to prevent certain data from flowing into a destination.
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Using Destination Filters, you can conditionally filter out event properties, traits, and fields, or even filter out the event itself.
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With Destination Filters, you can conditionally filter out event properties, traits, and fields, or even filter out the event itself.
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Common use cases for Destination Filters include the following:
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> Destination Filters are available to Business Tier customers only.
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### Destination Filtering Limitations
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### Destination filtering limitations
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Keep the following limitations in mind when you use Destination Filters:
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- Segment applies Destination Filters one at a time in the order that they appear in your workspace.
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- Destination Filters can only be applied to cloud-mode (server-side) streaming destinations. Device-mode destinations aren't supported.
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- You can't apply Destination Filters to Warehouses or S3 destinations.
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- Each filter can only apply to one source-destination pair.
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The following examples illustrate common Destinations Filters use cases.
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### PII Management
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### PII management
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Example: Remove email addresses from `context` and `properties`:
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![PII management example](images/destination-filters/pii_example.png)
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### Control Event Volume
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### Control event volume
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This example shows a filter that controls event volume by only sending `User Signed Up` and `Demo Requested` events.
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![Example of a filter that controls event volume](images/destination-filters/drop_example.png)
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### Cleaner Data
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### Cleaner data
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This example shows a rule that only sends track calls to Google Analytics.
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![Example of a filter that only sends track calls to Google Analytics](images/destination-filters/clean_example.png)
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### Remove Internal and Test Events From Production Tools
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### Remove internal and test events from production tools
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This rule targets email addresses with internal domains to stop test events from reaching Destinations.
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![Internal domain filter example](images/destination-filters/internal_example2.png)
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### Sample a Percentage of Events
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### Sample a percentage of events
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Using the [Destination Filters API](https://reference.segmentapis.com/#6c12fbe8-9f84-4a6c-848e-76a2325cb3c5){:target="_blank"}, you can create a rule to randomly sample video heartbeat events.
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### Drop Events
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### Drop events
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[Watch this Destination Filters walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47dhAF1Hoco){:target="_blank"} to learn how to use event names to filter events sent to destinations.
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## Important Notes
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## Important notes
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**Conflicting settings**
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