There are data shown in realtime report but the other reports are empty.

[Boy Krityakien]

My web server started collecting both event and pageview data using measurement protocol 4 days ago. The realtime report shows lot of hits (both pageview an events). However, I cannot see the data in normal report. It's now 4 days since I used the measurement protocol to collect the data. 

Any suggestions?

[Nick Mihailovski]

Did you get this working?

Generally you need to post the http request you are sending to Google Analytics for us to give any sort of advise.

If you have a well formatted request, and have no interfering filters, and you are looking at the correct profile, data should show up in reports.

-Nick

[Boy Krityakien]

No, it's still not working.

I used Spring's RestTemplate to post request to the ssl endpoing. Here is the debugging information.

Created POST request for "https://ssl.google-analytics.com/collect"

Setting request Accept header to [text/plain, application/json, application/*+json, */*]

Writing [{v=[1], tid=[UA-xxxxyyyy-3], cid=[4a8a08f0-9d37-3737-9564-9038408b5f33], dl=[http://www.xxx.com/test], cd1=[31.13.82.18], t=[event], ec=[cat], ea=[action], el=[label]}] using [org.springframework.http.converter.support.AllEncompassingFormHttpMessageConverter@19881f0]

POST request for "https://ssl.google-analytics.com/collect" resulted in 200 (OK)

Reading [java.lang.String] as "image/gif" using [org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter@7afcba]

I post the following parameters (in the exact following order)

v=1

tid=UA-xxxxyyyy-3 (just replaced  xxxxyyyy to the real id)

cid=4a8a08f0-9d37-3737-9564-9038408b5f33

dl=http:///www.xxx.com/test (again just replaced xxx to real domain)

cd1=31.13.82.18

t=event

ec=cat

ea=action

el=label

Boy

[Nick Mihailovski]

Hi,

The post values need to have &'s between them.

Can you try using GET?

-Nick

[Boy Krityakien]

Hi Nick,

The spring's RestTemplate automatically add & between the parameters.

I've already tried using GET method. I also tried the plain http endpoint however the data only appeared on the realtime report (not the others).

Yesterday afternoon, I tried using a java library called jgmp (https://github.com/tasubo/jgmp from https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-analytics-measurement-protocol/Lbm-KsqqsKc). The result was the same (only shown in realtime report, may be I need to wait a few more hours so that it's 24 hours).

Boy

[Boy Krityakien]

Just want to update the status. I already found the cause of the issue. It's the wrong type of property. I used the existing web property which is a classic analytics created 3 year ago so I cannot see anything tracked by measurement protocol. I need to create a new universal analytics property to get the data appear in the report.

Boy

[Jake Gordon]

I am actually experiencing the exact same problem, although my property is most definitely a Universal Analytics property (confirmed using these approaches: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/4457764?hl=en). Similar to OP's issue, I can see these events on the Real-Time dashboard no problem, but as far as I can tell I can see no trace of these events elsewhere, even through custom reports and after 30 hours. Attached is a screenshot of the response showing it is a 200 OK response. Here is what the post data looks like:

v=1&tid=UA-52982625-3&cid=developer&t=event&ea=test+action&ec=test+category&el=test+label&ev=10

Here is another post from someone else about the issue: 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-analytics-measurement-protocol/Y6dOOXQFmik

My code is freely available on GitHub at the following link. I'm trying to build a .NET wrapper for logging events (for starters) so others don't have to go through this pain in the future.

https://github.com/jakejgordon/Universal-Analytics-For-DotNet

I will send a virtual high-five or hug if anyone has an explanation for this. Thanks in advance.

[Jake Gordon]

False alarm! I'm embarrassed to say I just had the wrong date filter on Universal Analytics and wasn't including today's data. Data from yesterday never actually showed up but I just set up the property yesterday morning so I'm not surprised or concerned about losing 1 day of data. Nothing to see here... move it along. :P