Google Analytics 4 is an analytics service that enables you to measure traffic and engagement across your websites and apps.
This document guides you in setting up Google Analytics 4 as a source in RudderStack. Once configured, RudderStack automatically ingests your Google Analytics 4 data and routes it to your specified data warehouse destination.
Getting started
To set up Google Analytics 4 as a source in RudderStack, follow these steps:
- Log into your RudderStack dashboard.
- Go to Sources > New source > Cloud Extract and select Google Analytics 4 from the list of sources.
- Assign a name to your source and click Continue.
Connection settings
Next, configure the following dashboard settings:
- Credentials: From the dropdown, select the authentication mechanism for RudderStack to connect to the Google Analytics 4 API.
- Authenticate via Google (OAuth): To authenticate via OAuth, click the Sign in with Google button, select your Google account, and give RudderStack the required permissions.
- Service Account Key Authentication: Enter your service account JSON credentials in the Service Account Information field.
The other settings are as follows:
- Property ID: Specify the Google Analytics 4 property identifier whose events are tracked.
- Date Range Start Date: Choose the start date from which you want RudderStack to ingest the Google Analytics 4 data. RudderStack will not replicate any data before this date.
- Custom Reports: Use this setting to sync your custom Google Analytics 4 reports. To add a custom report, click Add Report and specify the Report Name, Metrics, and Dimensions, as shown:
- Data request time increment in days: Enter the number of days after which RudderStack requests data from the Google Analytics 4 API. The minimum and maximum allowed values for this field are 1 and 364 respectively.
Destination settings
The following settings specify how RudderStack sends the data ingested from Google Analytics 4 to the connected warehouse destination:
- Table prefix: RudderStack uses this prefix to create a table in your data warehouse and loads all your Google Analytics 4 data into it.
- Schedule Settings: RudderStack gives you three options to ingest the data from Google Analytics 4:
- Basic: Runs the syncs at the specified time interval.
- CRON: Runs the syncs based on the user-defined CRON expression.
- Manual: You are required to run the syncs manually.
Selecting the data to import
You can choose the predefined Google Analytics 4 reports from which you want to ingest the data by selecting them in this window:
The below table mentions the sync types supported by the Google Analytics 4 resources while syncing data to your warehouse destination:
| Resource | Sync type | Primary key |
|---|---|---|
daily_active_users | Incremental | uuid |
devices | Incremental | uuid |
four_weekly_active_users | Incremental | uuid |
locations | Incremental | uuid |
pages | Incremental | uuid |
traffic_sources | Incremental | uuid |
website_overview | Incremental | uuid |
weekly_active_users | Incremental | uuid |
For syncing all the reports, RudderStack uses the analyticsdata.googleapis.com/v1beta/{property_id}/runReport API.
Google Analytics 4 is now configured as a source. RudderStack will start ingesting data from Google Analytics 4 as per your specified schedule and frequency.
You can further connect this source to your data warehouse by clicking the Add Destination button, as shown:
FAQ
Is it possible to have multiple Cloud Extract sources writing to the same schema?
Yes, it is.
RudderStack associates a table prefix for every Cloud Extract source writing to a warehouse schema. This way, multiple Cloud Extract sources can write to the same schema with different table prefixes.
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