Currently, we have an app that uses Firebase, with Google Analytics enabled, and linked to BigQuery. The firebase account is on the Spark program.
In BigQuery, I can see the event-based schema, with fields around events and users and a few additional things like geo.
I am not sure what I need to do to get the session-related data in BigQuery, with things like session.visitId (found it referenced as part of ga_analytics_* table that I am missing). Does this require enabling the Blaze plan and export the google analytics data to BigQuery? Is this the reason why I am not seeing the session related fields in BigQuery?
If that is the case, what is the event-driven data model that I am currently seeing called in the Firebase context?
Firebase Export to BigQuery has a specific schema. In the docs the tables are in the form events_YYYYMMDD (this could be the event-driven data you asked for) and session.visitId is not listed as a field.
The field visitId seems to belong to Google Analytics BigQuery Export whose table is in the form ga_sessions_YYYYMMDD. Firebase docs specify that if your Firebase project is on the free Spark plan, you can link ... Google Analytics ... to the BigQuery sandbox, so, it should be feasible to access the ga tables in the sandbox. It is possible that an additional step is missing to get ga tables exported to BigQuery.
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Any ideas how I get historical data out of Google Analytics?
My problem here is I didn't realise the Firebase / Analytics export to BigQuery wasn't retrospective for history, so I only have data from when I turned on the integration and I need everything from when the Firebase App was launched. The main data I need is events with their parameters.
I have tried a few things:
Connect PowerBI to Google Analytics. I can authenticate and it only
shows "Default Account for Firebase" with no children - it doesn't
show the apps underneath that account.
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/query-explorer/ has the same
problem (not showing child properties).
I can load the
properties and therefore analytics dataset using Google Data Studio,
but this does not have the functionality I require that is in Power
BI. I also couldn't locate the event parameters which I need either.
Any ideas on how to export the data?
You can try to use Google Analytics Data API to export report programmatically: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1
However the data are not raw like with BigQuery Export. So if you want raw data there are no solution for the historical data.
We have recently migrated our iOS app to use Firebase Analytics from Google Analytics
Within GA, we had a custom dimension which is now being sent through the SDK as a user property
Without using BigQuery, is there a way in the Firebase Console to view screen views and/or events with the user property as a secondary data item? Not as a filter, but to add as a column to the report in the same way as you can add a secondary dimension in GA
Or is Firebase now deprecating functionality to force you to start using and paying for BigQuery?
Try to connect Firebase with Google Analytics 4 and in Explore --> Analysis report, anyway for custom analysis, the better way currently is export raw data to BigQuery and use that.
I have setup Firebase analytics data to BigQuery. However I received my first export today and it contains all yesterdays user statistics. That is great but I need lifetime statistics history or at least last month's data.
Do I already have access to my entire historic analytics data threw Big Query but I and I do not know how to access it? If so can you point to documentation or give a quick walk threw?
Is it even possible to get the full (or at least a longer period than a day) historic analytics data?
Bonus question: Can I directly access data that is used in Firebase analytics console? They should be feeding it with some API for some things I need aggregates would be sufficient. So is there http://analytics.firebase/data.json I could access while logged in to my Firebase account to save data to my machine?
firebaser here
Firebase Analytics does not expose the historical event level data. It only exposes aggregate information.
Complete event data is only available from the moment you enabled the BigQuery connection. No data from before that time will be added to BigQuery.
The data from the analytics reports that is shown in the Firebase Console is available through the Analytics Data API. See Is there any api for dashboard analytics data?
I've linked firebase analytics app to BigQuery and getting raw data under app_events and app_events_intraday tables.
Our major requirement behind using BigQuery is to get analytics data that we get under Firebase analytics dashboard e.g. active_users, new users, audience geo locations and so on.
We can get these kinds of data using GA REST API for web applications but here we are using firebase app for mobile application and we came to know that BigQuery is the only option to get analytics data.
Can I get google analytics historic data like I get it on Firebase analytics dashboard?
Also, I get this data by downloading CSV from the same dashboard but that is a manual approach and I am looking to automate it.
Please acquaint me with the right approach to get analytics data for firebase app.
Thanks!
I have setup Firebase analytics data to BigQuery. However I received my first export today and it contains all yesterdays user statistics. That is great but I need lifetime statistics history or at least last month's data.
Do I already have access to my entire historic analytics data threw Big Query but I and I do not know how to access it? If so can you point to documentation or give a quick walk threw?
Is it even possible to get the full (or at least a longer period than a day) historic analytics data?
Bonus question: Can I directly access data that is used in Firebase analytics console? They should be feeding it with some API for some things I need aggregates would be sufficient. So is there http://analytics.firebase/data.json I could access while logged in to my Firebase account to save data to my machine?
firebaser here
Firebase Analytics does not expose the historical event level data. It only exposes aggregate information.
Complete event data is only available from the moment you enabled the BigQuery connection. No data from before that time will be added to BigQuery.
The data from the analytics reports that is shown in the Firebase Console is available through the Analytics Data API. See Is there any api for dashboard analytics data?