Is there an place to view all raw request received for a Tag in Google Analytics; send though Measurement Protocol
For example if the request is
https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?tid=UA-12345-67&ea=Purchase&el=Code1&v=1&t=event&ec=OrderBook&cid=0eshxa2zyhqyt3hw54w1qxwn&dp=OrderBook.aspx
see the exact raw request in Google Analytics
No, you cannot see raw data in Google Analytics, it shows aggregated data only.
In a GA36 account you could use a BigQuery integration to access raw data (although not as a continous string but broken up in single fields), but GA36 comes with a hefty price tag.
If you are creating the requests yourself your best bet would be to write your own logger that stores every request before it goes to GA.
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I'm sending ecommerce data using the google analytics 4 measurement protocol and I also load the basic ga4 js snippet to track geo and other flow data.
The only issue is, as expected, I don't get any geo location data when the user is ad blocking and the ga4 js doesn't load.
Is there a way to send basic geo location data using the measurement protocol api so the realtime map works even when js is being blocked?
You need to develop your own server-side service using the GA4 Measurement protocol, and make a fetch() yourself in javascript to that web-service:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/ga4
But some user_properties parameters, like geolocation, are not documented (or do not exist) yet.
See question here: How indentity user country through GA4 measurement protocol
From backend java spring application, I need to send the following record per a specific api call to google analysitcs:
user_name,IP,time,...etc
Then I need to analyse data using one of these data (user_name,IP,time,...etc).
Can I utilize google analytics in that? or even is there any other cloud services to achieve that?
You could but you can't, that's because Analytics customers are prohibited from sending personal information to Google:
The Analytics terms of service, which all Analytics customers must adhere to, prohibits sending personally identifiable information (PII) to Analytics (such as names, social security numbers, email addresses, or any similar data), or data that permanently identifies a particular device (such as a mobile phone’s unique device identifier if such an identifier cannot be reset). Learn more about how to avoid sending PII. Your Analytics account could be terminated and your data destroyed if you use any of this information.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2795983?hl=en
Is it possible to get the info about website traffic without Google Analytics, for example?
For tracking without Javascript you can use the Measurement Protocol, i.e. you send a request to the Google Analytics Server with query parameter that specify the type of interaction (pageview, event etc) and the data you want to track.
General info is found in the protocol reference, a list of valid parameters is here, and if you want to test your tracking requests you can use the hit builder, which allows you to assemble, validate and send a hit to Google Analytics.
As for tracking without cookies that probably won't work very well. You need a persistent id to assemble hits into sessions, and sessions into visits. Such an ID is usually stored in a cookie (your "no javascript" requirement means that things like local storage are out of the question). You can either decorate all your links with a client id and use that to persist the parameter from page to page, or you use some sort of server-side browser fingerprinting.
All in all this might be somewhat less trivial than you assume, especially if you do not only want to track pageviews but also events that do not load a new page.
I am trying to download clickstream data from Google Analytics but I am not able to get it in correct format i.e. time stamp, page-path etc. I have seen some post on BigQuery but I have never used SQL.
Is there an easy way to do this?
No, there is no easy way. Google Analytics does not expose the client id via the API, so you cannot get user level data, and time based dimension allow breakdowns to the minute only, which is not granular enough.
You could store a more precise timestamp and the client id as custom dimensions (you might need to check your local laws and/or the privacy policy of your company to see if that kind of profile building requires permission by your users in your country).
Then you could pull url per client id, ordered by timestamp, via the Reporting API. However that is not necessarily easy and on a large site you might run into the API limits.
I am completely new to the Google Analytics Measurement protocol.
Trying to fetch the results and load it in iframe of an registered tid domain.
My query string looks something like this:
http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-XXX-1&cid=555&t=pageview&dp=%2Fauth"
But i get the response as : GIF89aÿÿÿÿ,D;
What am I doing anything wrong? I also tried passing domain name with it and its title. Still no success.
And also do I need to call this get or post from the origin domain or can I do it from Postman-Rest client?
I think your having an issue with understanding what the Measurement Protocol is.
You said:
Trying to fetch the results and load it in iframe of an registered tid
domain.
What the measurement protocol is for:
Measurement Protocol Overview
The Google Analytics Measurement Protocol allows developers to make
HTTP requests to send raw user interaction data directly to Google
Analytics servers.
The measurement protocol is for sending hits to Google Analytics, If you want to get your Google Analytics data out you use the Reporting API
Response
The response you are getting back from the measurement protocol is good it means it recorded your message. GIF89aÿÿÿÿ,D;
What you're seeing is the content of the 1x1 GIF pixel that Google Analytics uses, which you can safely ignore. As long as the response code of your request is 200, you should be fine.
The origin domain of the request doesn't matter; you can—for instance—also send Measurement protocol requests from server-side scripts and it still works.