Monitoring Report Usage
When you have one or more dashboards built and shared with the target audience, you may want to understand how users are engaging with and using these dashboards. After all, when you get a sense of how well the data story you've created is being received, you can then take any actions needed to increase adoption. Looker Studio allows you to monitor report usage through Google Analytics (GA). GA is a web and mobile application Analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports user traffic. This chapter will examine what tracking report usage involves and walk you through the process of leveraging GA for this purpose. You will learn about relevant GA concepts and its built-in reports for analyzing usage. Alternatively, you can leverage Looker Studio to visualize the usage metrics. Furthermore, you can analyze raw usage data in BigQuery by exporting it from GA.
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:
- Usage monitoring...
