Can Google Analytics email me if (crashes and) exceptions occur?

Question

Google Analytics is correctly reporting exceptions thrown by my Android app. And I can use Scheduled Emails to send this report to me. However, receiving a dai

Answer 1

A server (not Google Analytics) can be configured to provide email notification on exceptions, which is probably a sufficient solution for many.

First, you need a service account, which can be created https://console.developers.google.com/project/_/apiui/credential. You'll create a key file (MyAnalytics.p12).

Secondly, we configure our analytics client (MyAnalytics.php):

client = new Google_Client();
        $this->analytics = new Google_Service_Analytics($this->client);
        $key = file_get_contents(self::KEY_FILE_LOCATION);

        $this->cred = new Google_Auth_AssertionCredentials(
          self::SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL,
          array(Google_Service_Analytics::ANALYTICS_READONLY),
          $key
        );
    }

    public function getAnalytics() {
        $this->client->setAssertionCredentials($this->cred);

        if($this->client->getAuth()->isAccessTokenExpired()) {
           $this->client->getAuth()->refreshTokenWithAssertion($this->cred);
        }

        return $this->analytics;
    }
}

?>

Thirdly, we query and report on exceptions (exceptions.php):

getAnalytics();

    $results = $analytics->data_ga->get(
         'ga:' . MyAnalytics::PROFILE_ID,
         'yesterday',
         'today',
         'ga:exceptions'
    );

    $a = $results->getTotalsForAllResults();
    $count = $a['ga:exceptions'];

    echo $count;

    if (is_numeric($count) && $count > 0) {
        //handle the exception, e.g., send an email
        //(cf. https://stackoverflow.com/a/5335311/3664487)
    }       
?>

Fourth, configure cron to run exceptions.php (cf. https://stackoverflow.com/a/22358929/3664487).