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Firebase Analytics Setup Guide

Firebase Analytics is a tool that helps developers track how their Android and iOS users are engaging with their application. Firebase is Google’s mobile-based application development platform that helps to develop, improve and grow mobile applications by providing features such as performance monitoring and app-testing infrastructure. It is part of Google’s mobile application development platform, Firebase, which offers features such as performance monitoring and app-testing infrastructure to aid in the development, improvement, and growth of mobile applications.

Hevo allows enables you to generate analytical reports based on the data stored in the Google Analytics 4 (GA 4) property, which is connected to the Firebase Software Development Kit (SDK). These reports are made up of:

  • Metrics: These are statistical parameters that you measure for websites and mobile applications.

  • Dimensions: These are attributes in a report for which you want to see the statistics.

For example, the following report table that shows one dimension (Date) and one metric (New Users).

Metrics and Dimensions

Optionally, you can create pivot reports that are generated by applying an aggregation on top of selected dimensions and metrics in the parent report.

Note: You can create only one pivot report per parent report.

Prerequisites

  • An active Firebase account linked to Google Analytics 4 exists. Read Starting from Firebase in the [GA4] Firebase integration page for the steps to connect your Firebase account to a Google Analytics 4 property.

Configuring the Google Analytics 4 Property for your Firebase Account (Optional)

If you are an existing user of Firebase, you must configure the GA 4 property in your respective Firebase account before configuring Firebase as a Source in Hevo.

Read, Link your Firebase project to Analytics to configure a GA 4 property in your existing Firebase account.

Configuring Firebase Analytics as a Source

Perform the following steps to configure Firebase Analytics as the Source in your Pipeline:

  1. Click PIPELINES in the Navigation Bar.

  2. Click + CREATE PIPELINE in the Pipelines List View.

  3. In the Select Source Type page, select Firebase Analytics.

  4. In the Configure your Firebase Analytics account page, do one of the following:

    • Select a previously configured account and click CONTINUE.

    • Click + ADD FIREBASE ANALYTICS ACCOUNT and perform the following steps to configure an account:

      Add Firebase account

      1. Select the Google account linked to the Google Analytics data.

      2. Click Allow to authorize Hevo to access the data.

        Authorize Hevo on Firebase

  5. In the Configure your Firebase Analytics Source page, specify the following:

    Configure Firebase

    • Pipeline Name: A unique name for the Pipeline, not exceeding 255 characters.

    • Authorized User/Service Account (Non-editable): The email address that you selected earlier when connecting to your Google account. This value is pre-filled.

    • GA4 Account Name: The Google Analytics 4 account from which you want to replicate the data. One Google account can contain multiple analytics accounts.

    • Property Name: The website, application, or entity associated with the account from which you want Hevo to read the user data. This field appears once you select the GA4 Account Name from the drop-down.

    • Historical Sync Duration: The duration for which you want to ingest the existing data from the Source. Default: 6 Months.

    • Report Name: A unique name for your report, not exceeding 30 characters.

    • Dimensions: The attributes for which you want to see the data in your report. For example, in a Website property, the dimensions can include city, country, and device category. Read Analytics Dimensions and Metrics to know more about the available dimensions.

    • Metrics: The numerical measurement of data as per the dimensions selected above. For example, in a Website property, the metrics can include the number of viewers, new sign-ups, and number of clicks. Read Analytics Dimensions and Metrics to know more about the available metrics.

    • Pivot Report (Optional): A report generated by applying an aggregation on the selected dimensions and metrics. Default setting: Disabled. If enabled, Hevo creates additional reports by rearranging the data with a subset of dimensions and metrics from the above report.

      • Pivot Dimensions: A subset of dimensions from the parent report for which you want to rearrange the data.

      • Pivot Metrics: A subset of metrics from the parent report for which you want to rearrange the data.

      • Pivot Aggregation Function: The aggregation function you want to use to rearrange the data. For example, sum, minimum, maximum, and count.

    • + ADD ANOTHER REPORT (Optional): Use this option to create up to five reports and five pivot reports.

  6. Click TEST & CONTINUE.

  7. Proceed to configuring the data ingestion and setting up the Destination.

Data Replication

For Teams Created Default Ingestion Frequency Minimum Ingestion Frequency Maximum Ingestion Frequency Custom Frequency Range (in Hrs)
Before Release 2.21 1 Hr 15 Mins 12 Hrs 1-12
After Release 2.21 6 Hrs 30 Mins 24 Hrs 1-24

Note: The custom frequency must be set in hours as an integer value. For example, 1, 2, or 3 but not 1.5 or 1.75.

  • Historical Data: The first run of the Pipeline ingests historical data for the selected reports on the basis of the historical sync duration specified at the time of creating the Pipeline and loads it to the Destination. Default duration: 6 Months.

  • Incremental Data: Once the historical data ingestion is complete, every subsequent run of the Pipeline fetches new and updated data for the reports as per the ingestion frequency.

    Note: Hevo fetches the incremental data for all the reports in one go to reduce the number of API calls made to the Google Analytics 4 Data API.

  • Data Refresh: Hevo refreshes the data daily for the last three days.

Schema and Primary Keys

  • All the dimensions in a report are set as primary keys.

  • The suffix, _pivot, is added to the report name to represent pivot reports.

  • The aggregation_function column in the pivot report contains sum, minimum, maximum, or count values.

    For example, if you want to check the maximum daily page views for each page on your website, the count value represents the number of page views and the maximum value represents the maximum page views.

Limitations

  • Hevo does not load an Event into the Destination table if its size exceeds 128 MB, which may lead to discrepancies between your Source and Destination data. To avoid such a scenario, ensure that each row in your Source objects contains less than 100 MB of data.

Revision History

Refer to the following table for the list of key updates made to this page:

Date Release Description of Change
Jan-07-2025 NA Added a limitation about Event size.
Mar-05-2024 2.21 Updated the ingestion frequency table in the Data Replication section.
Oct-03-2023 NA Updated the section, Configuring Firebase Analytics as a Source to reflect the changes in Hevo UI.
Apr-25-2023 NA New document.
Last updated on Jan 07, 2025

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