Reports are completely empty but the notice bar says "waiting for your first analytics data"

What you are seeing

Reports are completely empty but the notice bar says "waiting for your first analytics data".

#Why it happens

No GA4 property has been selected in settings. Every report returns empty rather than erroring, which looks identical to a data-lag problem.

Open the settings page, connect Google if you have not, and choose a GA4 property in the Connect Google panel. Then reload the reports.

Setting	Where	What it does
GA4 property	Settings > Apps > Google Analytics > Connect Google	Which GA4 property the in-Confluence reports read from. Also scopes the data stream, API secret and custom dimension controls.
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.
Custom dimensions (GA4) - Sync / Refresh	Settings > Apps > Google Analytics > Enhanced tracking	Creates the app's 14 custom dimensions in your GA4 property. Five are required (space key, hashed account id, content id, content type, content version) and back the core reports; nine are optional and each unlocks a rep

Limit	Value	What happens
Reports page date range	-	Default 30 days.
Historical lookback	-	The health check that drives the reports notice bar looks back 400 days, matching GA4's default retention ceiling.

All server-sent events deliberately share one Google client identity across every user and

"Show sensitive data panels" is off, which is the default. It is enforced on the server, s

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