monitoring

• Monitor Google Tag Manager version status and send notifications to Slack: the easy way (Zapier) and hard way (GCP) It's impossible to sett up a pipeline in Google Tag Manager for when new container versions are published. It'd be great to get notifications of container updates, for security reasons, to run tests, update documentation, or to get notifications in services like Slack. Let's try and build a GTM status monitor that can send a notification to Slack when a new container version is published! Continue reading...
  gtm gcp monitoring Zapier

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• Building a complete tag monitoring solution for Google Tag Manager Do you know if all your tags are used in Google Tag Manager or if you can remove some? Do you know if they work for all your users? Or if they fire on the right dataLayer events and how long they take to execute? Follow along for a complete solution to monitor your Google Tag Manager implementation including a dashboard. Tag monitoring will allow you to understand if important tags are actually firing for real users on your site and see when they break down. Continue reading...
  gcp google-apps-script google-cloud google-sheets gtm monitoring tag-manager

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• Real Time Analytics Monitoring with Google Sheets Whether it's because you don't want your business to lose money or because you just like to watch videos on YouTube, automating your analytics monitoring can help you sit back and relax knowing that everything's under control. This time we'll look at how a simple Google Sheet can help you check your analytics on the fly with the Google Analytics Real Time Reporting API. Continue reading...
  howto analytics api google-analytics google-apps-script google-sheets monitoring real-time testing

  10 min read