How would I detect a Google Tag Manager publish event and send that to an external system?
I am trying to pinpoint effects of specific tag changes for certain properties and correlate them in a graph the way I might do with a new GitHub tag being created.
I've looked thru documentation but have not uncovered anything yet specifically for this scenario.
You could user container notifications to have an email sent to some service that processes the mail and stores the information.
Or you can use the API, retrieve the container fingerprint and compare it against a stored version of the fingerprint to see if it has changed. This would require you do implement some sort of polling in the API script to check every n minutes for changes.
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I am implementing v5 Firebase+GTM SDK with the sole purpose of tracking the events in Google Analytics.
I can't seem to find a way to access GA Client ID (using previous versions of GTM SDK, I was able to access tracker object and get or set the value).
I am talking about this value:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/field-reference#clientId
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/parameters#cid
Is there a way to reach to GA object hidden inside FIRAnalytics?
Yeah, I don't think tracker object is surfaced.
What you can do is to generate your own clientID (a simple guid would do) and in Google Tag Manager configure a tag to set it as a field. This way you will fully control the cliend id (&cid) and therefore change it as you see fit
This is not possible as of today, since Firebase does not expose data via a REST API. There is no API to even pass on the GA client ID.
From GTM's side of things, that is again a closed system since the data from Firebase is intercepted by GTM but cannot be pulled out or tweaked before it is passed to GA.
We've designed a touchscreen "app" which is essentially just a webserver and set of html files running on a machine. However, the machines these apps run on are frequently offline - they store their actions and when back online send them to our server as a batch. We'd like to have google analytics for tracking users and their actions, including event times during the day. Is there any way to override the event time when posting to google analytics to force it to be the time our service has recorded for the event, rather than the time analytics received the event? I looked through the documentation but didn't see any way to override that. I suppose I could use a custom field(?) but it would be far more convenient if there was some kind of override.
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I have a question to the following case. We want to track a content platform using google tag manager. However, not every time the platform is online but GTM would send data to our internal server. Therefore our concern is if data collected during this offline period will be kept or if we loose them.
Do you know if there is some period during which data collected offline through Google Tag Manager is kept and once it gets online then it is sent to Google Analytics?
Thank you,
Lukas
No, that is not how Google Tag Manager works. GTM for web is basically a javascript injection engine. It bundles your configured tags,triggers and variables with a selector engine and injects that into your page. There is no serverside component that stores data.
I'm sure one could come up with a solution to your problem - e.g. store your data with localstorage in the browser, poll you server to see if it is available, and when it's online send the data with a queue time parameter to Google Analytics. However that has nothing to do with GTM.
Having said this, it is hard to understand your use case - if your server is offline, then where does the data come from ?
If you have an offline PWA app (with a Service Worker), you can use the Workbox Google Analytics module to handle the collection of data, and to report it upstream when your site comes back online.
This module has a service worker fetch handler that intercepts the calls that you would make with analytics.js or gtag.js, and stores your data locally in IndexDB in the event that the call fails because it is offline.
I would like to enable (some) of my users to view my website's analytics data.
Our website has a bunch of groups where users can add content. I would like to enable certain users (group admins), to view usage statistics for that specific group. Ofcourse the data should only be accessable to those users with the VIEW_ANALYTICS right, not to any others.
Is there any way to do this in Google Analytics, or is there some other platform I could use to easily achieve this goal (we use AWS for our hosting)?
Regards,
klmdb
The Google Embed API allows you to display analytics data in your own pages. Pages that are only accessible to the members of your VIEW_ANALYTICS group.
You can create a service account and give it the appropriate access in the analytics user management for the property.
You also authorize the service account to use the embed API in the developers API console. (I don't have enough points to include more than two links in an answer.) In the API console you can generate a private key (p12 or json format) which you then use on your server to authenticate the request for analytics data.
You don't say which technologies you are using, but they show Java and Python examples of how to set up the authentication by the Service Account. I've also seen some node.js and php libraries.
This way you don't have to manage who has access through the google anayltics admin system, you just need to control who has access to your "dashboard" page.
I have done this all with client-side javascript and it works. Of course the client-side nature means that anybody who knows how to use browser debug tools can get our private-key, but in our particular case I'm not worried about it. On the other had it seem like you need to keep some security around this so I wouldn't recommend the client-side solution.
From my understanding of the regular WSO2 API Manager product I could create multiple synapse-configurations and register them as (global or api specific) sequences by placing them in the proper directory.
I would then utilize the Sequence configuration capabilites on the "Manage screen" to apply different sequences to the request and response payloads of the backend.
I read the documentation at https://docs.wso2.com/display/APICloud/Key+Concepts#KeyConcepts-Sequences as it is not possible to add more but I wanted to ask specifically.
Is it at all possible to do this type of manipulation in the current version of public API cloud?
I have talked with the relevant teams and this is how you can add a sequence in the API Cloud. Although I mentioned about adding a sequence via the Gateway's carbon console (and said it was broken), WSO2 API Manager product is not a position to make it working (this is a known limitation). If I explain the reason in simple terms, to support it they will need to ship a lot of mediator UIs which will make the product similar to the WSO2 ESB. Following is what you can do.
Use WSO2 Developer Studio to create the sequence you want.https://docs.wso2.com/display/DVS371/Creating+ESB+Artifacts#CreatingESBArtifacts-Workingwithsequences
Go to API Gateway at https://gateway.api.cloud.wso2.com/carbon
You need to login to the gateway. Username is email#tenantDomain. If your email abc#gmail.com and tenant domain (or the organisation key is xyz) you need to give abc.gmail.com#xyz as the username (note the # in the email being replaced with a DOT). Go to "Manage" in the top level menu of API Cloud and you will be able to figure out your organisation key.
Go to Resources -> Browse menu and navigate to /_system/governance/apimgt/customsequences/ registry path. Upload your sequence to in, out or fault folders based on your requirement. This will be then available when you create APIs via the API Publisher.
Yes, it is possible. You have to follow the below steps.
Go to API Gateway at https://gateway.api.cloud.wso2.com/carbon
You need to login to the gateway. Username is email#tenantDomain. If your email abc#gmail.com and tenant domain (or the organisation key is xyz) you need to give abc.gmail.com#xyz as the username (note the # in the email being replaced with a DOT). Go to "Manage" in the top level menu of API Cloud and you will be able to figure out your organisation key.
After login, you can go to sequence menu and add a sequence. I tried these steps just now and realised there is a broken page at add sequence. We are in the process of fixing it. Will keep you updated.
Difference of API Cloud and API Manager standalone version is, you have to store the sequence in the registry for it to be available at the API Publishing time.
We'll be adding a doc on this at the following location soon.
https://docs.wso2.com/display/APICloud/About+WSO2+API+Cloud#AboutWSO2APICloud-CommonAPICloudusecases