Can Google Analytics email me if (crashes and) exceptions occur?

Question

Google Analytics is correctly reporting exceptions thrown by my Android app. And I can use Scheduled Emails to send this report to me. However, receiving a dai

Answer 1

It is possible, but not in a direct way, you have to hookup you analytics quite dirty.

1) Configuration in Analytics Admin

Create two filters in Admin -> View -> Filters -> Custom -> Advanced

Create filter that listens on hitType exception and set Event Category - Exception

Create filter that replicates Exception description into Event Action

2) Create custom Goal

Create two filters in Admin -> View -> Goals -> Custom -> Event

Event Category equals Exception

3) Create Custom Alert

Custom alert by Goal containg exception

Do not forget your email

Try this and let me know!

Answer 2

To get report on Mail Id there is no way to send directly from google analytics. We can send this error report handling it and send it to programmatically to mail id from our app.

Answer 3

A server (not Google Analytics) can be configured to provide email notification on exceptions, which is probably a sufficient solution for many.

First, you need a service account, which can be created https://console.developers.google.com/project/_/apiui/credential. You'll create a key file (MyAnalytics.p12).

Secondly, we configure our analytics client (MyAnalytics.php):

<?php
//You'll need to install google-api-php-client 
//(https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client)
require_once 'Google/autoload.php';

class MyAnalytics
{
    //When logged into Google Analytics you'll have a URL that looks
    //something like https://www.google.com/analytics/web/?authuser=0#home/a00w11p22/
    //Your profile id is everything after the p
    const PROFILE_ID = '22';

    //This is the service account email that you constructed in step 1
    const SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL = 'blah@developer.gserviceaccount.com';

    //This is the file that you constructed in step 1.
    const KEY_FILE_LOCATION = 'MyAnalytics.p12';

    private $client;
    private $analytics;
    private $cred;

    public function __construct() {
        $this->client = new Google_Client();
        $this->analytics = new Google_Service_Analytics($this->client);
        $key = file_get_contents(self::KEY_FILE_LOCATION);

        $this->cred = new Google_Auth_AssertionCredentials(
          self::SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL,
          array(Google_Service_Analytics::ANALYTICS_READONLY),
          $key
        );
    }

    public function getAnalytics() {
        $this->client->setAssertionCredentials($this->cred);

        if($this->client->getAuth()->isAccessTokenExpired()) {
           $this->client->getAuth()->refreshTokenWithAssertion($this->cred);
        }

        return $this->analytics;
    }
}

?>

Thirdly, we query and report on exceptions (exceptions.php):

<?php
    require_once 'MyAnalytics.php';

    $myAnalytics = new MyAnalytics();
    $analytics = $myAnalytics->getAnalytics();

    $results = $analytics->data_ga->get(
         'ga:' . MyAnalytics::PROFILE_ID,
         'yesterday',
         'today',
         'ga:exceptions'
    );

    $a = $results->getTotalsForAllResults();
    $count = $a['ga:exceptions'];

    echo $count;

    if (is_numeric($count) && $count > 0) {
        //handle the exception, e.g., send an email
        //(cf. https://stackoverflow.com/a/5335311/3664487)
    }       
?>

Fourth, configure cron to run exceptions.php (cf. https://stackoverflow.com/a/22358929/3664487).