Monitor campaign spend in real-time

[Gianluca Rossi]

Is is possible to monitor in real-time or nearly real-time the spend for a campaign in Google AdWords through the API? I want to build a PID controller to make sure we don't under- or over-spend compared to the budget allocated for a given hour. To do so I need to frequently feedback the controller with the level of spend, so that it can adjust a price multiplier to tweak our final bids. 

[Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team)]

Hi Gianluca,

Campaign data available via the API cannot be considered real-time. Please refer to this article to determine the freshness of your data.

Please let me know if I can help you any further.

Regards,

Vishal, AdWords API Team