Follow these steps to connect your Adobe Analytics and Adobe Analytics 2.0 data to Supermetrics and use your data in any of our data destinations — Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Excel, and data warehouses. Adobe Analytics 2.0 is also available in Power BI and the Supermetrics API. You can also connect to data sources from the Supermetrics Hub.
You can share your data source connection with your team and use the connection across all data destinations you use with Supermetrics. Learn more about shared connections.
Adobe Analytics 2.0 is in Early Access, which means we're still fine-tuning all of its features. It's available to use for free until the full release. We'd love to hear your feedback.
Before you begin
There are two ways to authenticate Adobe Analytics and Adobe Analytics 2.0:
- Connect with a service account (recommended)
- Connect with OAuth
These authentication methods both work differently and have different advantages.
Authentication method | Details |
Service account |
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OAuth |
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To connect Supermetrics to Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 with a service account you need:
- A System Administrator or Developer user role in your Adobe account organization.
- It also requires explicit access granted to see the report suites, reports, segments, and custom fields. Visit Adobe’s help center to learn how to change user roles.
When you're ready, follow our detailed guide to create and connect your Adobe Analytics service account.
To connect Supermetrics Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 with OAuth, you need:
- An Adobe ID linked to Experience Cloud with Web Service Access enabled
- The linked ID needs access to the report suites, reports, segments, and custom fields you want to use in your reporting. Visit Adobe’s help center to learn about granting and changing account permissions.
Instructions
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open a new Google Sheets file.
- Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch sidebar to open Supermetrics.
- Click Create new query.
- Under Data source, select Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Select an authentication method and enter your credentials. These depend on your authentication method — OAuth only needs an email and password, while a service account needs a client ID, technical account ID, organization ID, and client secret.
- Click Start.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Google Sheets.
Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Looker Studio before following the steps below.
- Open the Supermetrics Looker Studio data source gallery.
- Navigate to Adobe Analytics and click Start free trial.
- You'll see two buttons that read Authorize. If you're using Supermetrics for the first time, click the left-hand one and log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics.
- Once that's done, or if you've done it before, click the right-hand Authorize button (under "Adobe Analytics requires authorization to connect to data").
- Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Select an authentication method and enter your credentials. These depend on your authentication method — OAuth only needs an email and password, while a service account needs a client ID, technical account ID, organization ID, and client secret.
- Click Start.
- Select accounts and segments to use in your report.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page. To create a report with our template, select Use report template for new reports. To create a blank report, deselect this option.
- In the pane's top right, click Connect.
- Click Create report.
- Click Add to report.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Looker Studio.
Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.
- Open an Excel file.
- Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
- Under Data source, select Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0.
- Choose to make this connection shared or private.
- Select an authentication method and enter your credentials. These depend on your authentication method — OAuth only needs an email and password, while a service account needs a client ID, technical account ID, organization ID, and client secret.
- Click Start.
Learn about advanced settings, best practices, and troubleshooting tips for Supermetrics for Excel.
Follow these instructions to set up a transfer with Supermetrics for BigQuery (marketplace). See the instructions below for other data warehouse destinations.
Set up transfer for BigQuery (marketplace)
Make sure you've enrolled the data source before you connect.
- Log in to the Google Cloud Platform.
- Navigate to BigQuery → Data transfers.
- Click + Create transfer.
- Select the Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 data source.
- Fill in the transfer details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a transfer.
- Under Third-party connection, click Connect source.
- Accept the agreement.
- Click Authorize with Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0.
- Select an authentication method and enter your credentials. These depend on your authentication method — OAuth only needs an email and password, while a service account needs a client ID, technical account ID, organization ID, and client secret.
- Click Start.
- Select the accounts you'd like to include in your reporting and define the transfer settings.
- Click Submit.
- Click Save.
Set up data warehouse transfer on the Supermetrics Hub
Make sure you've set up a data warehouse destination before you connect.
- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, under Export, go to Data warehousing → Transfers.
- Click Create new.
- Select the Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 data source, and click OK.
- Fill in the transfer details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a transfer.
- In the Connections section, click Add new connection.
- Select an authentication method and enter your credentials. These depend on your authentication method — OAuth only needs an email and password, while a service account needs a client ID, technical account ID, organization ID, and client secret.
- Click Start.
- In the transfer setup view, select the accounts you'd like to include in your reporting.
- Click Create transfer.
- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, under Export, click Power BI.
- Click Select data source.
- Select the Adobe Analytics 2.0 data source.
- Select an authentication method and enter your credentials. These depend on your authentication method — OAuth only needs an email and password, while a service account needs a client ID, technical account ID, organization ID, and client secret.
- Click Start.
- Fill in the query details.
- Click Run query to test your query.
- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, under Transform, click Query Manager (API).
- Select for Supermetrics API from the dropdown menu next to the page title.
- Click Select data source.
- Select the Adobe Analytics 2.0 data source.
- Select an authentication method and enter your credentials. These depend on your authentication method — OAuth only needs an email and password, while a service account needs a client ID, technical account ID, organization ID, and client secret.
- Click Start.
- Fill in the query details. See detailed instructions on how to set up a Supermetrics API query in Query Manager.
- Click Run to test your query.
- Log in to the Supermetrics Hub.
- In the left-side menu, select Connect → Data sources.
- Scroll down to the list of data sources you haven't connected to. You see this list below your existing connections, under the title Connect to new data source.
- Hover over the Adobe Analytics or Adobe Analytics 2.0 data source, and click Connect.
- Select an authentication method and enter your credentials. These depend on your authentication method — OAuth only needs an email and password, while a service account needs a client ID, technical account ID, organization ID, and client secret.
- Click Start.