GA4 Usage Dashboard
The GA4 Usage Dashboard shows access to our GOV.UK GA4 Production data and the tokens consumed per user. Access and tokens can be split out by access mechanism and report type.
The report is split into several pages, which can be accessed from the menu on the left hand side. The pages share the same data source and split the data by various dimensions.
By using this report we can monitor how frequently users are accessing GOV.UK GA4 data, and also how many API tokens they are consuming.
Using the GA4 Usage Dashboard
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The report can be edited by anyone in the GDS performance analysts Google group. It can also be viewed by both those in the analytics team and data services Google groups. There are also a number of individuals who have been granted view or edit access to the dashboard when they have required access to this data.
If you sit outside of these groups but wish to have access to this dashboard, please get in touch with the Analytics team to make this request.
How the GA4 Usage Dashboard works
Data sources
The GA4 Usage Dashboard uses the ga4_logs table in the ga4_logs dataset as its data source. This can be found in the ga4-analytics-352613 project within BigQuery.
Cloud function
The GA4 access logs data is generated by querying the Google Analytics Admin API - it is this data which populates the ga4_logs table.
The cloud function is triggered from cloud scheduler and retrieves data once a day, getting fields such as the timestamp and user email, along with metrics for the access count and api tokens consumed, both of which are used in the dashboard’s charts to calculate the number of times a user has accessed GOV.UK GA4 data. Alongside this, the access mechanism is also returned which allows us to report on which method the user used to access the data, e.g. the GA4 interface, Looker Studio etc.
More information about how the ga4_logs table is populated using cloud functions can be found on this page here