Google Analytics 4 connector for Amazon AppFlow - Amazon AppFlow
Amazon AppFlow support for Google Analytics 4Before you beginConnecting to Google Analytics 4Transferring data from Google Analytics 4Supported destinationsSupported objects

Google Analytics 4 connector for Amazon AppFlow

Google Analytics 4 is an analytics service that tracks and reports metrics about visitor interactions with your apps and websites. These metrics include page views, active users, and events. You can use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from Google Analytics 4 to certain AWS services or other supported applications.

Note

The Google Analytics 4 connector transfers data only from Google Analytics 4 properties. If you want to transfer data from Universal Analytics properties instead, use the Google Analytics connector.

In time, Google Analytics will end support for Universal Analytics properties, and that platform will fully support only Google Analytics 4 properties. For more information, see Introducing the next generation of Analytics, Google Analytics 4 (GA4).

Amazon AppFlow support for Google Analytics 4

Amazon AppFlow supports Google Analytics 4 as follows.

Supported as a data source?

Yes. You can use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from Google Analytics 4.

Supported as a data destination?

No. You can't use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data to Google Analytics 4.

Before you begin

To use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from Google Analytics 4 to supported destinations, you must meet these requirements:

  • You have a Google Analytics account with one or more data streams that collect the data that you want to transfer. For more information about the Google Analytics 4 data objects that Amazon AppFlow supports, see Supported objects.

  • You have a Google Cloud Platform account and a Google Cloud project.

  • In your Google Cloud project, you've enabled the following APIs:

    • Google Analytics API

    • Google Analytics Admin API

    • Google Analytics Data API

    For the steps to enable these APIs, see Enable and disable APIs in the API Console Help for Google Cloud Platform.

  • In your Google Cloud project, you've configured an OAuth consent screen for external users. For information about the OAuth consent screen, see Setting up your OAuth consent screen in the Google Cloud Platform Console Help.

  • In your Google Cloud project, you've configured an OAuth 2.0 client ID. For the steps to create an OAuth 2.0 client ID, see Setting up OAuth 2.0 in the Google Cloud Platform Console Help.

    The OAuth 2.0 client ID must have one or more authorized redirect URLs for Amazon AppFlow.

    Redirect URLs have the following format:

    https://region.console.aws.amazon.com/appflow/oauth

    In this URL, region is the code for the AWS Region where you use Amazon AppFlow to transfer data from Google Analytics 4. For example, the code for the US East (N. Virginia) Region is us-east-1. For that Region, the URL is the following:

    https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/appflow/oauth

    For the AWS Regions that Amazon AppFlow supports, and their codes, see Amazon AppFlow endpoints and quotas in the AWS General Reference.

Note the client ID and client secret from the settings for your OAuth 2.0 client ID. When you connect to your Google Cloud project, you provide these values to Amazon AppFlow.

Connecting Amazon AppFlow to Google Analytics 4

To connect Amazon AppFlow to Google Analytics 4, provide the client credentials from the OAuth 2.0 client ID from your Google Cloud project. Amazon AppFlow uses these credentials to access your data. If you haven't yet configured your Google Cloud project for Amazon AppFlow integration, see Before you begin.

To connect to Google Analytics 4

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon AppFlow console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/appflow/.

  2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Connections.

  3. On the Manage connections page, for Connectors, choose Google Analytics 4.

  4. Choose Create connection.

  5. In the Connect to Google Analytics 4 window, enter the following information:

    • Access type – Choose offline.

    • Client ID – The client ID of the OAuth 2.0 client ID in your Google Cloud project.

    • Client secret – The client secret of the OAuth 2.0 client ID in your Google Cloud project.

  6. Optionally, under Data encryption, choose Customize encryption settings (advanced) if you want to encrypt your data with a customer managed key in the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

    By default, Amazon AppFlow encrypts your data with a KMS key that AWS creates, uses, and manages for you. Choose this option if you want to encrypt your data with your own KMS key instead.

    Amazon AppFlow always encrypts your data during transit and at rest. For more information, see Data protection in Amazon AppFlow.

    If you want to use a KMS key from the current AWS account, select this key under Choose an AWS KMS key. If you want to use a KMS key from a different AWS account, enter the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for that key.

  7. For Connection name, enter a name for your connection.

  8. Choose Continue.

  9. In the window that appears, sign in to your Google account, and grant access to Amazon AppFlow.

On the Manage connections page, your new connection appears in the Connections table. When you create a flow that uses Google Analytics 4 as the data source, you can select this connection.

Transferring data from Google Analytics 4 with a flow

To transfer data from Google Analytics 4, create an Amazon AppFlow flow, and choose Google Analytics 4 as the data source. For the steps to create a flow, see Creating flows in Amazon AppFlow.

When you configure the flow, choose the data object that you want to transfer. For the objects that Amazon AppFlow supports for Google Analytics 4, see Supported objects.

Also, choose the destination where you want to transfer the data object that you selected. For more information about how to configure your destination, see Supported destinations.

Supported destinations

When you create a flow that uses Google Analytics 4 as the data source, you can set the destination to any of the following connectors:

Supported objects

When you create a flow that uses Google Analytics 4 as the data source, you can transfer any of the following data objects to supported destinations:

Object

Field

Data type

Supported filters

Core Report

Real-Time Report

Dimension:appVersion

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:audienceId

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:audienceName

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:city

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:cityId

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:country

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:countryId

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:deviceCategory

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:eventName

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:minutesAgo

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:platform

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:streamId

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:streamName

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Dimension:unifiedScreenName

String

CONTAINS, EQUAL_TO

Metrics:activeUsers

String

Metrics:conversions

String

Metrics:eventCount

String

Metrics:screenPageViews

String