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Adobe Analytics & Adobe Analytics 2.0 connection guide

Follow these steps to connect your Adobe Analytics and Adobe Analytics 2.0 data to Supermetrics and use your data in any of our data destinations — Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Excel, and data warehouses. Adobe Analytics 2.0 is also available in Power BI and the Supermetrics API. You can also connect to data sources from the Supermetrics Hub.


You can share your data source connection with your team and use the connection across all data destinations you use with Supermetrics. Learn more about shared connections.


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.


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 methodDetails
Service account
  • Authentication is valid for 10 years
  • The service account is a separate user, which offers additional flexibility but means that all segments and calculated fields must be shared with it
  • Requires developer access
OAuth
  • Requires manual reauthentication every 14 days
  • Log in with your own Adobe Analytics credentials
  • All the settings, segments, and fields available to your account are instantly available in Supermetrics


Prerequisites: Create and connect a service account

To connect Supermetrics to Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 with a service account you need:

When you're ready, follow our detailed guide to create and connect your Adobe Analytics service account.

Prerequisites: Connect with OAuth

To connect Supermetrics Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 with OAuth, you need:


Instructions

Google Sheets

Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.

  1. Open a new Google Sheets file.
  2. Navigate to ExtensionsSupermetricsLaunch sidebar to open Supermetrics.
  3. Click Create new query.
  4. Under Data source, select Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0.
  5. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  6. Select an authentication method and 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.
  7. Click Start.

Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Google Sheets.

Looker Studio
  1. Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
  2. Navigate to Adobe Analytics and click Start free trial.
  3. 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.
  4. 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").
  5. Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
  6. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  7. Select an authentication method and 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.
  8. Click Start.
  9. Select accounts and segments to use in your report.
  10. 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.
  11. In the pane's top right, click Connect.
  12. Click Create report.
  13. Click Add to report.

Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Looker Studio.

Excel

Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.

  1. Open an Excel file.
  2. Click DataShow Supermetrics.
  3. Under Data source, select Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0.
  4. Choose to make this connection shared or private.
  5. Select an authentication method and 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.
  6. Click Start.

Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Excel.

Data warehouse

Follow these instructions to set up a transfer with Supermetrics for BigQuery (marketplace). See the instructions below for other data warehouse destinations.


Set up transfer for BigQuery (marketplace)

Make sure you've enrolled the data source before you connect.

  1. Log in to the Google Cloud Platform.
  2. Navigate to BigQueryData transfers.
  3. Click + Create transfer.
  4. Select the Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 data source.
  5. Fill in the transfer details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a transfer.
  6. Under Third-party connection, click Connect source.
  7. Accept the agreement.
  8. Click Authorize with Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0.
  9. Select an authentication method and 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.
  10. Click Start.
  11. Select the accounts you'd like to include in your reporting and define the transfer settings.
  12. Click Submit.
  13. Click Save.


Set up data warehouse transfer on the Supermetrics Hub

Make sure you've set up a data warehouse destination before you connect.

  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, go to StorageTransfers.
  3. Click New transfer. If you haven't created any transfers yet, click Schedule first transfer
  4. Select the Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 data source, and click OK.
  5. Fill in the transfer details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a transfer.
  6. In the Connections section, click Add new connection.
  7. Select an authentication method and 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.
  8. Click Start.
  9. In the transfer setup view, select the accounts you'd like to include in your reporting.
  10. Click Create transfer.
Power BI
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, go to DestinationsPower BI.
  3. Click Create or edit queries.
  4. Click Select a data source.
  5. Select the Adobe Analytics 2.0 data source.
  6. Select an authentication method and 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.
  7. Click Start.
  8. Fill in the query details.
  9. Click Run query to test your query.
The Supermetrics API
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, click API.
  3. Select for Supermetrics API from the dropdown menu next to the page title.
  4. Click Select data source.
  5. Select the Adobe Analytics 2.0 data source.
  6. Select an authentication method and 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.
  7. Click Start.
  8. Fill in the query details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a Supermetrics API query in Query Manager.
  9. Click Run to test your query.
Supermetrics Hub
  1. Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
  2. In the sidebar, click Data sources.
  3. Scroll down to the list of data sources you haven't connected to. You see this list below your existing connections, under the title Connect to new data source.
  4. Hover over the Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 data source, and click Connect.
  5. Select an authentication method and 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.
  6. Click Start.


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