Learn how to connect Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 to Supermetrics.
Adobe Analytics 2.0 is in Early Access, which means we're still fine-tuning all of its features. It's available to use for free until the full release. We'd love to hear your feedback.
If you need to connect these data sources to one of our data warehouse or cloud storage destinations, explore our data warehouse and cloud storage setup guides.
Before you begin
There are two ways to authenticate Adobe Analytics and Adobe Analytics 2.0:
- Connect with a service account (recommended)
- Connect with OAuth
These authentication methods both work differently and have different advantages.
| Authentication method | Details |
| Service account |
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| OAuth |
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To connect Supermetrics to Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 with a service account you need:
- A System Administrator or Developer user role in your Adobe account organization.
- It also requires explicit access granted to see the report suites, reports, segments, and custom fields. Visit Adobe’s help center to learn how to change user roles.
When you're ready, follow our detailed guide to create and connect your Adobe Analytics service account.
To connect Supermetrics Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 with OAuth, you need:
- An Adobe ID linked to Experience Cloud with Web Service Access enabled
- The linked ID needs access to the report suites, reports, segments, and custom fields you want to use in your reporting. Visit Adobe’s help center to learn about granting and changing account permissions.
Instructions
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch sidebar to open Supermetrics.
- Click Create new query.
- Under Data source, select Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0.
- Enter your credentials. These depend on your authentication method — OAuth only needs an email and password, while a service account needs a client ID, technical account ID, organization ID, and client secret.
- Click Start to connect with a service account, or Log in to connect with OAuth.
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Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Looker Studio before following the steps below.
- Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
- Navigate to Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 and click Start free trial.
- You'll see two buttons that read Authorize. If you're using Supermetrics for the first time, click the left-hand one and log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics.
- Once that's done, or if you've done it before, click the right-hand Authorize button (under "Adobe Analytics requires authorization to connect to data").
- Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your credentials. These depend on your authentication method — OAuth only needs an email and password, while a service account needs a client ID, technical account ID, organization ID, and client secret.
- Click Start to connect with a service account, or Log in to connect with OAuth.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page. To create a report with our template, select Use report template for new reports. To create a blank report, deselect this option.
- In the pane's top right, click Connect.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report.
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Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Click Start.
- Enter your credentials. These depend on your authentication method — OAuth only needs an email and password, while a service account needs a client ID, technical account ID, organization ID, and client secret.
- Click Start to connect with a service account, or Log in to connect with OAuth.
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