Migrate to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for fluentd.org

[chalin]

This is part of a CNCF-wide effort to upgrade project websites to GA4 since Google has deprecated Universal Analytics (UA). For more details, see:

• Migrate CNCF websites to GA4 cncf/techdocs#108, including reference to:
  • A suggested migration process,
    which we've used to migrate a few CNCF projects already.

Tasks

• Create a GA4 site tag under the CNCF projects account.
  The new GA4 stream measurement ID is: G-93T2VC0VBC
• Main website - UA-82811140-41:
  • Connect UA site tag from the GA4 site tag.
  • Use gtag.js library to register GA4 ID - out_file: support csv format fluent-bit#241
  • Confirm that the GA4 site tag is receiving events
  • Confirm that the UA site tag, UA-82811140-41, is receiving events
• docs.fluentd.org - UA-181341719-4, which CNCF doesn't currently have access to.
  Enable Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for docs.fluentd.org fluentd-docs-gitbook#437
  • Connect UA site tag from the GA4 site tag.
  • Use gtag.js library to register GA4 ID

Related

• For fluentbit.io, see:
  • Enable Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for fluentbit.io and docs.fluentbit.io fluent-bit-website-hugo#22
  • Enable Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for docs.fluentbit.io fluent-bit-docs#1002

Later

• Cleanup: there are still traces in the main site pages of the old GTM ID. Those scripts should be removed.

/cc @nate-double-u @caniszczyk @fujimotos

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Related, background & prep-work:

• [Idea] Hiding plugin instance at library mode fluent-bit#100: apparently TD used GTM-T7BJ3X and the CNCF used GTM-TFCP8WJ though there is no trace of such a GTM ID at the CNCF.
• tcp sessions fluent-bit#234

[chalin]

@fujimotos @ashie - do you know if Fluentd websites are hosted on Netlify? If so, do you have access to the Netlify account, and can you grant me access as well?

[fujimotos]

do you know if Fluentd websites are hosted on Netlify? If so, do you have access to the Netlify account, and can you grant me access as well?

As far as I know, the official site is running on Heroku. It was set up
(at least) 5 years ago, and I don't have any access to that account.

CC: @ashie

[chalin]

Thanks for that background information @fujimotos.
Do you have access to the analytics for the docs? (I have access to the main site's analytics property, but not the ones setup for the docs.)

[ashie]

As far as I know, the official site is running on Heroku. It was set up
(at least) 5 years ago, and I don't have any access to that account.

I don't have access to that account too.
We update the site via CircleCI in usual.
The account is owned by Treasure Data, @toru-takahashi has the access.

Do you have access to the analytics for the docs? (I have access to the main site's analytics property, but not the ones setup for the docs.)

No, I don't have it.
The repository of docs.fluent.org is here: https://github.com/fluent/fluentd-docs-gitbook

• for fluentd v1.x: 1.0 branch
• for fluentd v0.12: 0.12 branch

[toru-takahashi]

Let me check it in this week.

[chalin]

@toru-takahashi : thank you.

[toru-takahashi]

@chalin Hi, sorry for delay in my repsponse.
I've checked the ga ID. But, it is not owned by Treasure Data.
As the following commit said, we have migrated the Google Analytics Tag scripts from
the one used by Treasure Data to CNCF before.
8bb91af

Could you check who own the ga id?

[chalin]

Thanks for getting back to me @toru-takahashi. We're all set for the main website. My questions now pertain to the docs subdomain:

• Enable Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for docs.fluentd.org fluentd-docs-gitbook#437

I'll comment further in that issue.