GA4 connector: Connection test fails

  • Is this your first time deploying Airbyte?: No
  • OS Version / Instance: Ubuntu / GCP VM / n1-standard-2
  • Memory / Disk: n1-standard-2
  • Deployment: Docker
  • Airbyte Version: 0.40.22
  • Source name/version: GA4 / 0.03
  • Destination name/version: BigQuery 1.1.9
  • Step: Connection test is failing
  • Description:
    I followed all the instructions described here but the connection is still failing.

The error message I receive is:
‘403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://analyticsdata.googleapis.com/v1beta/properties/xxxxxxxxx/metadata

  • I am using a json service account to connect to the service.
  • I gave viewer permission to the email of the service account (Property level not account level).

Thanks for your help.

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The email of the service account needs to be added on the account level. When it’s added on the property level it doesn’t work.

@ marcosmarxm: It would be great to update the documentation here

I’ve created a docs improvement request, please leave a thumbs up or comment to help with prioritization. Thanks for the input. https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/21670

Hey guys!

I finally added the requested information to the docs.

@datasquad-ai do you think this information will prevent similar issues for new users? https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/pull/22416/files

Hi,
Just in case anyone has any further issues.
You need to make sure that in the Service account that the Google Analytics Data API is enabled.
When I was following the setup and the links I ended up enabling the Google Analytics API which doesn’t work when you’re using the GA4 connector.