Google Analytics 4 

Google Analytics 4 is an analytics service that enables you to measure traffic and engagement across your websites and apps. You can use Google Analytics 4 custom reports as a data source when landing or replicating data.

• For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

• For more information about Lite connectors, see Classifications for SaaS application connectors.

• Depending on your use case, you might need to install Data Movement gateway to move data from SaaS applications. For more information, see When is Data Movement gateway required?.

Supported update methods

For more information, see An overview of target update methods.

Landing tasks:

• Reload and compare

Replication tasks:

• Full load

Landing data in a data lake tasks:

• Reload

Preparing for authentication

To access your Google Analytics 4 custom reports, you need to authenticate the connection with your account credentials.

1. Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/analytics.googleapis.com and click Enable.

2. Go to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/analyticsdata.googleapis.com/overview and click Enable.

3. Go to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/analyticsreporting.googleapis.com/overview and click Enable.

4. Click Credentials.

5. Click Create credentials.

6. Click OAuth client ID, and select Web application.

7. Add https://connector.qlik.com/auth/oauth/v3.htm as an Authorized redirect URI.

8. Click Create.

You can now see Client ID and Client Secret that you need to copy to the connection settings.

Custom reports

You can use up to ten Google Analytics 4 custom reports.

1. Go to https://ga-dev-tools.web.app/query-explorer, and make sure it is set to GA4.

2. Select your metrics and dimensions.

3. Click the copy icon next to Request JSON at the bottom of the page to copy the value.

   Warning noteDo not try to copy any other way than using the copy icon.

4. Paste the copied text to a custom report field in the connection.

Creating the connection

For more information, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

1. Click Authenticate when you have filled in the required connection settings.

   You may be asked to log in to the source application.

   A window is displayed with an authentication code.

2. Copy the code to the clipboard and return to the connection dialog.

3. Paste the code in Complete authentication with the code provided by the source and click Verify.

   Tip noteYou may need to scroll down to see this field.

   When status is Verified,the authentication is verified.

4. Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.

5. Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.