How to Filter Events using Different Methods

An easy-to-follow guide on filtering the events before sending them to your specified destinations in RudderStack.

RudderStack provides different filtering methods before sending the events to your specified destinations. The following table explains these methods in detail:

Method	Description	Connection mode	Applicable
User Transformations	Create transformations to filter out certain event names, types, or any distinguishing factors among them.	Cloud mode	Event Stream Reverse ETL Cloud Extract
Client-side Event Filtering	Specify which events should be discarded or allowed to flow through by whitelisting or blacklisting them in the RudderStack dashboard, while setting up the destination.	Device mode	All SDKs
Sending events to selective destinations	Send your events only to the selective destinations by stopping the SDK from loading other device mode integrations.	Device mode	JavaScript SDK
Filtering selective destinations	Filter out selective destinations by stopping RudderStack from sending certain events to them.	Cloud mode and device mode	JavaScript SDK Android SDK iOS SDK

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