Setting up your workspace - GA4

This getting-started guide focuses on testing data from Google Analytics (GA4). To setup workspace for testing data from a different data provider, check other setup guides: Piano Analytics or BigQuery.

Getting started in Waaila

To get started quickly in Waaila you can

  1. Sign up into Waaila using Google account

  2. Follow the setup wizard to create your first set of tests

  3. Check your first results

Note:
To log in, you need a Google account. If you plan to use mainly Google Analytics as the source of your data, it is recommended to log in with the account where you have the access to Google Analytics. However, you will have an option to add an additional account with the access later.

Workspace setup with a wizard

When you first log into Waaila, you are redirected to a dialog to configure tests. Currently Waaila only provides a setup wizard for Google Analytics (GA4) tests. If you want to use a different data source provider (e.g. BigQuery), continue below to create a dataset from public Template Gallery or create your own tests.

  1. Answer a few simple question to determine your expected use of Waaila tests (such as if you want to check e-commerce data) and continue to select your data

  2. Fill in the Google account email where you have access to Google Analytics data that you want to test (when you connect for the first time, Google will ask you to approve accessing your data from Waaila) and select Next

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  1. Select a GA4 account and property (it is recommended to set a custom name to recognize the selected set of tests)

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  1. After selecting Start tests, a set of tests is created with connection to your your selected GA4 property and the tests are directly run to check the data

  2. In the results you can see the overall score of the testset run, the number of failed and passed tests as well as detail result for each test (for more detail on the test results interpretation refer to a more detailed guide)

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Note:
If you want, you can return to the setup wizard using the button Wizard on the top right of the application.

In the Template Gallery there are prepared publicly available tests separated by specific data provider and topic of the test. To filter by data provider use the dropdown on top right above the list of templates.

  1. Open selected template and click "Use tests". For example, you can select General Daily Checks to run daily as a general overview of your GA4 data.

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  1. Select an existing depot (folder) where the dataset should be located or create a new one by selecting the option "Create a new depot" - note: if you have no depot, this step is skipped automatically

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  1. Select the option to "Create a new dataset" (tests can also be added from a template to an existing dataset in this step if you already have some existing datasets) - note: if you have no dataset for given data provider, this step is skipped automatically

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  1. Select the Google account email where you have access to Google Analytics data that you want to test

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  1. From listed data sources, select a GA4 account and property that you want to use for testing, set a custom name to recognize the selected set of tests and confirm the configuration by clicking "Save"

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Create dataset without tests

Optionally, you can create a new dataset with no pre-specified tests and create there custom tests or add tests later.

  1. Go to an existing depot or create a new depot and select the button "Add dataset"

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  1. Select a datasource provider (GA4 is selected by default)

  2. Select the Google account email where you have access to Google Analytics data that you want to test

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  1. From listed data sources, select a GA4 account and property that you want to use for testing, set a custom name to recognize the selected set of tests and confirm the configuration by clicking "Save"

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Create dataset from a prepared template

In My Templates you can can store prepared set of tests to use them easily on other properties. The process of connecting these templates to your data is the same as for templates in the public Template Gallery.

  1. Open selected template and click "Use tests"

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  1. Select an existing depot (folder) where the dataset should be located or create a new one by selecting the option "Create a new depot" - note: if you have no depot, this step is skipped automatically

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  1. Select the option to "Create a new dataset" (tests can also be added from a template to an existing dataset in this step if you already have some existing datasets) - note: if you have no dataset for given data provider, this step is skipped automatically

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  1. Select the Google account email where you have access to Google Analytics data that you want to test

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  1. From listed data sources, select a GA4 account and property that you want to use for testing, set a custom name to recognize the selected set of tests and confirm the configuration by clicking "Save"

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