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Does the Google Analytics connector bring in full data or sampled data?
We request all of the data. If the underlying data is itself sampled or incomplete, then of course we'd have no control over that -- but we will get everything that the Google API can give us.
"If the number of sessions in the property over the given date range exceeds 500k sessions (25M for Premium)1, Analytics will employ a sampling algorithm which uses a sample set proportional to the distribution of sessions by day for the selected date range."
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2637192
I don't know if this means per query in Power BI (my guess would be yes).
This means you need to break down your queries and keep duplicating...not ideal, but it works.
Helper IIIHi,
So Power bi's connector for google analytics has a sampling issue and an API Calls limit. The standard limitations and quotas for Google Analytics API requests are documented in Limits and Quotas on API Requests. However, Power BI Desktop and Power BI service allow you to use the following enhanced number of queries. Queries per day: 1,500,000 Queries per 100 seconds: 4,000 Might be better to connect Google analytics to a data warehouse such as Google BigQuery, which will help you get access to historical data that you won't be able to get with Power bi's connector. I'd suggest using a third-party connector.