(500) There was an internal error - For Most of the time

[Chirag]

Hello Members,

I am getting (500) There was an internal error. For all my requests.

Please note that this is the same code working from last few months, but today suddenly getting 500 Error for all my request to google analytics API.

Can anyone please help me same?

Getting error like this 

"Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'apiServiceException' with message 'Error calling GET https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids=id&start-date=2014-10-01&end-date=2015-09-30&metrics=ga%3Asessions%2Cga%3AbounceRate&dimensions=ga%3Amonth%2Cga%3Ayear&sort=ga%3Ayear%2Cga%3Amonth&start-index=1&max-results=12&key=AIzaSyC4ebHE4a9p0SnsjYX2XaGa_aI-IemiDlw: (500) There was an internal error.' in /var/www/html/version6/application/libraries/src_latest/io/apiREST.php:86 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/version6/application/libraries/src_latest/io/apiREST.php(56): apiREST::decodeHttpResponse(Object(apiHttpRequest)) #1 /var/www/html/version6/application/libraries/src_latest/service/apiServiceResource.php(187): apiREST::execute(Object(apiServiceRequest)) #2 /var/www/html/version6/application/libraries/ApiAnalyticsService.php(228): apiServiceResource->__call('get', Array)

Please guide me if someone can help.

Thanks,

Chirag

 

[Jacob]

+1

[Tim Fisher]

Same here! I haven't made any code changes (I'm all JS) at all and I'm getting the following on 95% of queries today:

domain: "global"

message: "There was an internal error."

reason: "internalError"

These are basic page view and session queries - nothing fancy. It's certainly not an invalid request on my part.

[Tim Fisher]

FWIW, I'm using the Embed API in a JavaScript project. Again, no code changes on my part and every so often (~5%), the requests will go through. HUGE majority failing with 500, though.

[ben.b...@oxoptimal.com]

Hey everyone,

Issue seems to be as follows:

if you are using ga:adwordsCampaignId as a filter when you are calling Analytics.Data.Ga.get, it ends up crashing.

change occurred somewhere between 3am and 6 am CT.

Some documentation suggests they are moving from from ga:adwordsampaignId to ga:campaignCode, but as of now, querying it gets nothing and still causes the internal error sometimes.

Sources:

 https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/dimsmets#view=detail&group=traffic_sources&jump=ga_campaigncode

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/4522476?hl=en

On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 7:50:43 AM UTC-5, Chirag wrote:

[Tim Fisher]

Thanks Ben, but I know for me, that's not the case.

I don't use ga:adwordsCampaignId (nor any adwords related dimensions) anywhere in my project. Maybe there were some other inadvertent changes as well?

[ben.b...@oxoptimal.com]

You're probably right.

Now we wait.

[Matt]

Hello Everyone,

Just quick update. We are aware of the issue and are investigating.

I will update this thread once when I have more information.

-Matt

[Matt]

Hello Everyone,

A final update on this. Yesterday, as noted there was an unusual increase in 500s reported. 
This cause of the issue was identified and resolved midday yesterday.

As noted in the documentation a 500 or 503 error normally might result during heavy load or for larger more complex requests. For larger requests consider requesting data for a shorter time period. Also consider implementing exponential backoff. The frequency of these errors can be dependent on the view (profile) and the amount of reporting data associated with that view; A query that causes a 500 or 503 error for one view (profile) will not necessarily cause an error for the same query with a different view (profile).

We appreciate that you brought this issue to our attention.

-Matt

[Tim Fisher]

Thanks Matt! Appreciate the prompt response yesterday.

[Chirag]

Thanks Matt for quick fix.

[Jacob]

I still received an error this morning. Is 2010 too far to go back in time?  Can you provide any guidance around your definition of "larger more complex requests"? Right now I'm randomly trying different dates and the fact that it only happens sometimes to some accounts is a very frustrating experience.

<HttpError 500 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?sort=-ga%3ApageViews&dimensions=ga%3ApagePath&start-date=2010-01-01&ids=ga%3A266247&metrics=ga%3Apageviews&filters=ga%3ApagePath%3D%7E%2Fblog&alt=json&end-date=today returned "There was an internal error."

[Matthew Cohoon]

Hello Jacob,

From your request it appears you are request all the information from 2010 to 2015, depending on the popularity of your blog that is potentially a good deal of data to be requesting. Perhaps try making smaller requests for individual months. As I stated above the frequency of these errors can be dependent on the view (profile) and the amount of reporting data associated with that view; A query that causes a 500 or 503 error for one view (profile) will not necessarily cause an error for the same query with a different view (profile). Just for fun you could do a binary search to find the maximum range for your particular view (profile).

-Matt

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[Jacob]

Thanks Matt.  Perhaps there's a more efficient way of going about things?  I'm basically trying to run a query that gives all-time total pageview counts for a particular page path. Is the query I'm using the most efficient way to do that? I just want total pageview counts, I don't need any other data.

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