Data is not loading from Google Analytics GA4 2.0 (Beta) to Power Bi

[coliveira03_]

Hi,

I am trying to get data from GA4 connector, however, it does never load the data. I have been trying per days... and it stays like this the whole day 

Can anyone please help me?

Thank you

[adetox]

Hi, an issue that I found is that this connector FAILS to work when you report more than 10.000 rows. Anything lower than that and works. So I dig deeper and seems that 10000 rows is page size of GA4 APIs. So the connector has issues with pagination...

this is my  string and works only if the date filter is small enough to return less than 10.000 rows

let
    Source = GoogleAnalytics.Accounts([Implementation="2.0"]),
    #"accounts/xxxxx" = Source{[Id="accounts/xxxxx"]}[Data],
    #"properties/yyyyy" = #"accounts/xxxxx"{[Id="properties/yyyyyy"]}[Data],
    #"properties/1" = #"properties/yyyyy"{[Id="properties/yyyyy"]}[Data],
    #"Added Items" = Cube.Transform(#"properties/1",
        {
            {Cube.AddMeasureColumn, "sessions", "sessions"},
            {Cube.AddAndExpandDimensionColumn, "date", {"date"}, {"date"}},
            {Cube.AddAndExpandDimensionColumn, "sessionSource", {"sessionSource"}, {"sessionSource"}},
            {Cube.AddAndExpandDimensionColumn, "sessionSourceMedium", {"sessionSourceMedium"}, {"sessionSourceMedium"}},
            {Cube.AddAndExpandDimensionColumn, "sessionDefaultChannelGroup", {"sessionDefaultChannelGroup"}, {"sessionDefaultChannelGroup"}},
            {Cube.AddAndExpandDimensionColumn, "sessionCampaignName", {"sessionCampaignName"}, {"sessionCampaignName"}}
        }),
     #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Added Items", each [date] >= #date(2024, 7, 1) and [date] <= #date(2024, 7, 13))
in
    #"Filtered Rows"

[QueryWhiz · Accepted solution]

Hi @coliveira03_ Could be a temporal issue with the beta connector. I hope it'll be fixed soon. As a workaround, maybe you can try to test your connection with a 3rd party tool, which pulls data from the GA4 API. I currently connect my data this way and I haven't had any issue so far. I've tried windsor.ai, supemetrics and funnel.io. I stayed with windsor because it is much cheaper so just to let you know other options. In case you wonder, to make the connection first search for the GA4 connector in the data sources list:

After that, just grant access to your GA4 account using your credentials, then on preview and destination page you will see a preview of your GA4 fields:

There just select the fields you need. Finally, just select PBI as your data destination and finally just copy and paste the url on PBI --> Get Data --> Web --> Paste the url. 

[amitchandak]

@coliveira03_ , Please log an issue too - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/idb-p/Issues