[FEATURE] Support custom metrics and dimensions

[lcc3108]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. https://github.com/blackcowmoo/grafana-google-analytics-datasource/issues/54#issuecomment-1597157310 Is support for Event Scope Custom Metrics present already / can it be added? I cannot find it in the metrics picker

Originally posted by @aa-matthias in https://github.com/blackcowmoo/grafana-google-analytics-datasource/issues/54#issuecomment-1597157310

Describe the solution you'd like Get metrics with propertyId

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[lcc3108]

@aa-matthias I checked that custom metrics and dimensions currently working.

However, it was not sufficiently tested in UA and GA. If you want to test it first, use the following branch

69 or branch feature/backend/support-custom-metric-dimension

[aa-matthias]

Hi @lcc3108 - i would be happy to test, but it looks like the CI Action is not storing the Artefacts of the build job. Is it possible to get a plugin.zip of the package? Thanks!

[lcc3108]

https://github.com/blackcowmoo/grafana-google-analytics-datasource/tree/feature/backend/support-custom-metric-dimension/build you can try docker build 0.2.1 will be combined with additional features and will be created as a release.

[aa-matthias]

@lcc3108 do you know when Release 0.2.1 will be published in the grafana Plugin Marketplace?

[lcc3108]

@aa-matthias Commutiny plugin are released only with Grafana approval.

Currently awaiting review of the grafana.

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I submitted a plugin update request at 08/24 11:50PM KST and currently awaiting review.

[aa-matthias]

thanks, ok

[lcc3108]

0.2.1 released

[aa-matthias]

Checking out Release 0.2.2 I can now pick Custom Metrics in the Query Builder 🚀 - returned values are null but same query works in GA4 Query Explorer

this seems to be a type config issue based on the warnings i get

[lcc3108]

@aa-matthias I will create a new issue based on what you reported.

Additionally, could you give me a brief explanation or a link so that I can set the custom metric the same?

[aa-matthias]

Sure - custom metrics need to be defined within the GA4 propery. RunReportResponse will then include information about the data type of the custom metric. Possible types can be seen in the docs:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/rest/v1beta/MetricType?hl=en

I would say the type needs to be considered when interpreting / transforming the response - looks like currently the grafana-google-analytics-datasource plugin tries to interpret the values as datetime fields.

in our case the metric is of type TYPE_MILLISECONDS