AlertSite and Google Analytics Integration
AlertSite provides Google Analytics
TM data overlay free of charge, as part of the Monitoring Suite core technology. Google Analytics is free from Google. See the Google Analytics
Getting Started Guide.
Google Analytics is only available to AlertSite customers who have authorized us to overlay Google Analytics (GA) data with AlertSite monitoring data. This is done by correlating web pages in an existing Google Analytics Account with selected devices in the AlertSite account.
Google Analytics Data Overlay
The Google Analytics overlay displays a large number of metrics (see the
Supported Google Analytics Metrics table below). For a description of these metrics, go to
Dimensions & Metrics Reference.
To integrate Google Analytics data into your AlertSite console:
- Navigate to Configuration →
Google Analytics
- In STEP 1: Login to your Google Analytics account: Select your Client ID from the dropdown (if you have multiple Google Analytics accounts, click on the Add Account button to reference your other accounts)
- Click the Login button
- In STEP 2: Device mapping: A table with two columns is displayed
- Google Analytics Website Profiles with a dropdown list, initialized to
---NONE---, of your Google Analytics profiles for the logged in account
- AlertSite Devices with a dropdown list, initialized to
---NONE---, of your AlertSite devices
- Click the dropdown menu for your Google Analytics profile to select one
- Click the dropdown menu for the AlertSite device you want mapped to that Analytics Tracking Profile
- To map additional tracking profiles to other AlertSite devices, click
ADD to the right of the last mapping
NOTE: you can map additional AlertSite devices to the same profile if desired
- Click Submit to save your mapping and click OK in the dialog with
Your update has been saved.
AlertSite uploads the Google Analytics data and overlays the data on a graph. Customers can see the data only in their own accounts. Devices that have Google Analytics data applied have a
icon appearing to the right of the device name on the AlertSite Dashboard.
You can click on the icon to display the Google Analytics Setup page.
To see the graph overlay, click the check box to the left of the device name with the GA icon. The graph displays Response Time over Pageviews by default. To select a different secondary (Analytics) metric, click on the "wrench" icon in the upper right of the configuration dialog:
Select the Analytics item you want from the
Display Overlay dropdown, for example,
Visitors:
The Google Analytics data will be displayed over the performance data.
You can also display the overlay on a per-location basis by clicking the
Show Locations check box. Below is an example with all locations selected:
AlertSite access to view customer Google Analytics data combined with AlertSite data is restricted to designated AlertSite employees who have authorized access rights and are under Non-disclosure Agreements.
See also
AlertSite Dashboard.
Supported Google Analytics Metrics
The following table shows the list of Google Analytics metrics currently supported by AlertSite:
| Metric |
Dimension |
Description |
| Visits |
Session |
ga:visits |
| Visitors |
Visitor |
ga:visitors |
| Pageviews |
Page Tracking |
ga:pageviews |
| Pages/Visit |
Page Tracking |
ga:pageviewsPerVisit |
| Average Time on Site |
Page Tracking |
ga:avgTimeOnSite |
| Bounce Rate - Entrance |
Page Tracking |
ga:entranceBounceRate |
| Bounce Rate - Visit |
Page Tracking |
a:visitBounceRate |
| New visits |
Visitor |
ga:newVisits |
| Unique Pageviews |
Page Tracking |
ga:uniquePageviews |
| Exit |
Page Tracking |
ga:exits |
| Goal Conversion Rate All |
Goal |
ga:goalConversionRateAll |
| Total Goal Value All |
Goal |
ga:goalValueAll |
| Goal Completions All |
Goal |
ga:goalCompletionsAll |
| Goal Abandonment Rate All |
Goal |
ga:goalAbandonsAll |
| Transactions |
Ecommerce |
ga:transactions |
| Average Order Value |
Ecommerce |
ga:revenuePerTransaction |
| Quantity of Purchase Items |
Ecommerce |
ga:transactions |
| Total Transaction Revenue |
Ecommerce |
ga:transactionRevenue |
| Unique Purchases |
Ecommerce |
ga:uniquePurchases |
| Product Revenue |
Ecommerce |
ga:itemRevenue |
| Average Revenue per Item |
Ecommerce |
ga:revenuePerItem |
| Average Items |
Ecommerce |
ga:itemsPerPurchase |
| Total Amount of Tax |
Ecommerce |
ga:transactionTax |
| Total Shipping Cost |
Ecommerce |
ga:transactionShipping |
Tutorial: How to Set Up Google Analytics OAuth 2.0 Credentials for Google API v3.0
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for migrating to OAuth 2.0 Credentials for Google API v3.0. This is required by AlertSite in order to use Google Analytics-to-AlertSite-device mapping.
- First, go to Google APIs Console. If you are not already logged in to Google, provide your Email and Password to sign in.
- The screen will display
Click the Create project... button
- The All services screen will be displayed:
Click the Off button next to Analytics API, then, if prompted, read and accept the Terms of Service Agreement to enable Analytics API. The Analytics API will now be switched on:
- In the left sidebar, click API Access:
- Click the Create an OAuth 2.0 client ID... button:
- Enter a Project name in the Create Client ID dialog and click Next:
- Select the radio button for Installed application then click the Create client ID button:
- The API Access screen will contain the Client ID and Client Secret :
- In another tab, go to the AlertSite Console Google Analytics Setup screen and follow the applicable steps below:
- New Google Analytics Customers:
- Click the Add Account button
- Existing Google Analytics Customers:
- In the Account (Client ID) field, select any account marked DEPRECATED:
- Read the Informational Message box that appears, then click OK. Three buttons, Add Account, Edit Account, and Delete Account, will appear below the Account (Client ID) field:
- Click the Edit Account button to display the account information form:
- Copy and paste the Client ID and Client Secret from the Google Analytics API Access screen into the appropriate fields in the AlertSite Google Analytics Setup screen
- Click the Get Code button to the right of the Authentication Code field, then click Accept access in the Permissions dialog that appears
- Copy and paste the Authentication code returned into the Authentication Code field in the Google Analytics Setup screen
- Click Save to save the Account Information
The device mapping that was set up with the DEPRECATED account will be maintained with the new credentials. Login to the new account to make any changes.
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