Google Real Time Analytics to Prometheus

Obtains Google Analytics RealTime metrics, and presents them to prometheus for scraping.

---

Quick start

1. Copy your Google creds json file to ./config/ga_creds.json. The email from the json must be added to the GA project permissions, more on that bellow. We recommend you use port 9674 to avoid conflicts as per Prometheus' default port allocations
2. Create yaml configuration file (./config/conf.yaml):.

   port: 9674
   interval: 60
   viewid: ga:123456789
   metrics:
   - rt:pageviews
   - rt:activeUsers

3. Install dependencies, compile and run.

   GO111MODULE=on go build ganalytics.go
   ./ganalytics

ViewID for the Google Analytics

From your Google Analytics Web UI: Admin (Low left) ==> View Settings (far right tab, named VIEW)'

View ID should be among Basic Settings. Prefix ga: must be added to the ID, e.g. ga:1234556 while adding it to the config.

Google creds

Google API manager allows to create OAuth 2.0 credentials for Google APIs. Use Service account key credentials type, upon creation a json creds file will be provided. Project RO permissions should be sufficient.

The email from GA API creds must be added to analytics project metrics will be obtained from.>

Cross compile on a MAC

• Alpine docker image is used for delivery.
• go should be installed with common compilers - brew install go --with-cc-common
• creds.json and config.yaml expected to be in ./config/

CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -ldflags "-s" -a -installsuffix cgo ganalytics.go
docker build -t ganalytics .
docker run -it -p 9674:9674 -v $(pwd)/config:/ga/config ganalytics

Author

Pavel Snagovsky, pavel@snagovsky.com

License

Licensed under the terms of MIT license, see LICENSE file