Google Analytics 4 not supported

[throwaway-a]

This has been brought up multiple times in the past, but I guess no one filed a ticket? Google Analytics 360 is not a viable option for small site operators. Google Universal Analytics sunsets July 1 2023. At which point all Open edX users who don't have $150k to burn will be unable to get analytics about their site usage.

The request is to add support for Google Analytics 4.

[sambapete]

The Data Working Group and the Frontend Working Group are aware of the issue. But it's a good thing to have created a ticket. Thanks.

[mariajgrimaldi]

Hello there @sambapete: do you know if there's an issue in any of those wg regarding this update? So we can attach it here.

[sambapete]

The last updates I saw were from the Data Working Group
https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3707699223/2023-03-22+Data+WG+Meeting+notes

I don't know if it will be ready for Palm though. Maybe @bmtcril knows more about it and the current state of
openedx/wg-frontend#148 and
https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COMM/pages/3668312128/FC-0014+-+Google+Analytics+4+Upgrade

[bmtcril]

Raccoon Gang is in progress on FC-0014, with an expectation that the upgrade will be done (and I believe backported to Olive) by the end of April.

[sambapete]

It will also need to be backported to Palm which will be cut on April 11 and be released in June.

[bmtcril]

Hi all, the GA4 PRs have merged into the main branches and been backported to Palm and Olive (in anticipation of an olive.4 release)! I'm not on BTR, so I don't know if folks want to close this out or wait until things are finalized, but I think from our perspective this is complete.

Some more details are here: openedx/wg-frontend#148
Configuration docs are here: https://docs.openedx.org/en/latest/site_ops/how-tos/google-analytics.html
Tutor docs are coming soon.

[throwaway-a]

This is great! Once there's some tutor docs I'll be happy to test it while I'm testing Palm to see what all has been fixed.

[bmtcril]

PR for the Tutor doc update is here: overhangio/tutor#842

[bmtcril]

And it's merged, closing this out! If issues arise please create a new issue for them. 😄