“Hi there, I’m running the GA4 Java libraries and have encountered a problem when running it in Databricks, even though the same code is running perfectly fine locally on my machine. It seems that this issue arises from going about it within the Spark cluster environment. I tried installing it on the cluster as a normal JAR and as a fat JAR using… Read more

“Hey fellow coders, I’m stuck on something. I’m trying to snag the app_instance_id or client_id from the Firebase SDK for a web client. Just to clarify, I’m not using gtag.js. Here’s a link that I’ve been referencing for help: (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/ga4/sending-events?client_type=firebase).

I… Read more

The discrepancies you’re seeing between your GA4 report and your BigQuery results could be due to the way each platform handles ‘null’ or missing referrers. GA4 might be categorizing some sessions with missing referrers as coming from certain sources like ‘app’, whereas BigQuery could be registering these as ‘null’. There might also be differences… Read more

So, here’s the story. I’d been using GTM to keep an eye on site visits and was also reporting a ‘userId’ that was getting generated every time a page loaded. Everything was working great when I set the userId as a ‘custom dimension’ in my GTM data layer.

Then, I made a switch to Google Analytics 4 (GA4), and things got a little funky. I can’t… Read more