Thursday, June 6, 2013

Google Analytics: Change History Now Available

Hey Google Analytics admins! Ever wondered who added filters to your default profile? How about those new users added to your GA account? Or who deleted the regex include filter you spent all week writing?

Yeah it seems to be such a pain experiencing one or all of these problems and not knowing who or how. It is a common GA admin dilemma until just recently that Google Analytics announced that they are enabling Change History! Yes fellow GA admins, we can now see who messed up our settings, lol! But seriously, we can now track changes done in our respective Google Analytics accounts.

According to GA team, the Change History lists:

  • Date column: The date and time of the activity
  • Email column: Which Analytics user performed the activity
  • Activity column: The Analytics object (e.g., account, user, profile, goal, filter), and what activity was performed on the object (e.g., added to account, created, deleted)
This feature can be accessed on the 'admin' tab and through the account list breadcrumb at the top.

**For confidentiality, I can't add an image of the actual change history of my account.

So is this a great update or what?! We do love data and tracking, now GA added the ability for us to track how one of the best tools of our trade is being used. Cheers!

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