# Search, comment and page create/update events never show up, but page views work fine

**What you are seeing**

Search, comment and page create/update events never show up, but page views work fine.

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## Why it happens

No Measurement Protocol API secret is stored. Google requires one for server-sent events; the Measurement ID alone is not enough.

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## What to do

Go to Enhanced tracking and pick an existing secret from your data stream, or press + to create one. Both save immediately.

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## Settings involved

| **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. |
| Measurement Protocol API secret       | Settings > Apps > Google Analytics > Enhanced tracking | Unlocks the server-side events: search, comments, and page create/update. Not needed for page views.                                                                                           |
| Create API secret (+ button)          | Settings > Apps > Google Analytics > Enhanced tracking | Creates a new Measurement Protocol secret in your GA4 data stream, named "Google Analytics by Capable", and stores it immediately.                                                             |

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## Limits that apply here

| **Limit**                 | **Value** | **What happens**                                                                                                                             |
| ------------------------- | --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Custom dimensions created | \-        | Against GA4's standard limit of 50 event-scoped custom dimensions. The app budgets 45 so you keep room for your own.                         |
| Report table page size    | \-        | Applies to the Content, Spaces, Searches and Raw tables.                                                                                     |
| GA4 data latency          | \-        | New events and newly created custom dimensions take up to 48 hours to appear in Google Analytics. This is Google's behaviour, not the app's. |

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## Related

[Enhanced tracking worked, then silently stopped after you saved settings againA manually pasted API secret is wiped by the next Save configuration unless you retype it.](https://help.gocapable.com/google-analytics/enhanced-tracking-worked-then-silently-stopped-after-you-saved-settings-again.html)

[Search counts look roughly doubleSearches can be recorded twice on sites where Confluence emits its own search event: once ](https://staging.dev.capable-sites.com/wiki/pages/1418822292)

[Everything elseThe rest of this family.](https://help.gocapable.com/google-analytics/everything-else.html)

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