# Enhanced tracking (server side)

Records page created, page updated, comment created, comment updated and search events that a browser cannot see, sent server-to-server to Google.

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## How it works

Confluence notifies the app when these things happen and the app posts an event to Google's Measurement Protocol. These are separate from the browser tracking and use a different Google mechanism.

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## What it needs

A GA4 Measurement ID plus a Measurement Protocol API secret, plus an active licence.

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## Where you do it

| **Task**                                     | **Where**                                                                   |
| -------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Open the settings page                       | Confluence > Settings > Apps > Google Analytics                             |
| Set the Measurement ID and start collecting  | View tracking panel > Data stream (if connected) or Measurement ID (manual) |
| Turn on search, comment and page-edit events | Enhanced tracking panel > Measurement Protocol API secret                   |

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## Settings that affect this

| **Setting**                           | **Where**                                           | **What it does**                                                                                                                                                                               |
| ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Connect Google Analytics / Disconnect | Settings > Apps > Google Analytics > Connect Google | Starts a Google sign-in popup. The connection is site-level: one admin connects once and the whole Confluence site uses it. Disconnect revokes access at Google and deletes the stored tokens. |
| Data stream                           | Settings > Apps > Google Analytics > View tracking  | Picking a web data stream fills in the Measurement ID for you.                                                                                                                                 |
| Measurement ID                        | Settings > Apps > Google Analytics > View tracking  | The GA4 tag ID (G-XXXXXXXXXX). This is the single required setting: nothing is collected anywhere until it is set.                                                                             |

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## Worth knowing

* Searches can be counted twice on sites where Confluence emits its own search event, because the browser and the server both record one.
* Server-side events all share one Google client identity across every user and every site, and logged-out actors become one "anonymous" identity. Users and Sessions from that stream are not meaningful. This is a deliberate continuity decision carried over from the older Connect app.

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## Related

[Reports inside ConfluenceAnother part of how this works.](https://help.gocapable.com/google-analytics/reports-inside-confluence.html)

[Space-scoped reportsAnother part of how this works.](https://help.gocapable.com/google-analytics/space-scoped-reports.html)

[How it worksThe rest.](https://help.gocapable.com/google-analytics/how-it-works.html)

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_How it actually behaves._