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WSO2 API Manager can be configured to track run time runtime statistics for of API invocations through Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics). Google analytics Analytics is a service which allows you to track vists visits to a web site website and generate detailed statistics based on that.

This guide explains how to setup API Manager in order to feed runtime statistics to Google analytics for summarization and display.

1. Setup a Google analytics account.
If you already have a google account, Sign-In. Else Create a New Google Account and Sign-In.
Then go to http://www.google.com/analytics/ and Sign-In
Click on the Admin Icon on top right
Then Click Create New Account as highlighted in below image.http://java-wisdom.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-analytics-tracking-for-wso2-api.htmlAnalytics account if not subscribed already and receive a Tracking ID, which is of the format "UA-XXXXXXXX-X". A Tracking ID is issued at the time an account is created with Google Analytics.

2. Open $AM_HOME/repository/conf/api-manager.xml. Enable the <GoogleAnalyticsTracking> element and enter the Tracking-ID.

Code Block
languagehtml/xml
<GoogleAnalyticsTracking>
   <!-- Enable/Disable Google Analytics Tracking -->
   <Enabled>false</Enabled>
   <!-- Google Analytics Tracking ID -->
   <TrackingID>UA-XXXXXXXX-X</TrackingID>
</GoogleAnalyticsTracking>

3. Save the file and restart the API Manager instance.

4. API Manager is now integrated with Google Analytics. A user who has subscribed to a published API through the API Store should see an icon as "Real-Time" after logging into their Google Analytics account. Click on this icon and select "Overview".

5. Then invoke the above API through the embedded WSO2 REST Client (or any third-part rest client such as cURL).

Real-Time Statistics

6. This is an invocation of the API. Accordingly, Google Analytics graphs and statistics will be displayed on runtime. In this case it will be a hit on 'PageViews' Per second graph and also 1 user active as shown in the screenshot below.

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Reporting Statistics

Google Analytics reporting statistics population takes more than 24 hours from the time of invocation. Shown below is a sample Dashboard with populated statistics.

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Note that there are Widgets with statistics related to Audience, Traffic, Page Content, Visit Duration etc. You can add any widget of your preference through 'Add Widget'.