GA4 Data data export not happening to BQ post events exclusion

[aniket_19]

I’m facing an issue related to GA4 data export to BigQuery for one of my clients. They were exceeding the free limit of 1M events per day in standard GA property from Dec,24. Hence data export to BQ paused automatically. To resolve this, I have excluded 16 less important events for that client from data export from GA dashboard (This was done through an account with BQ Administrator access and GA editor access during the starting of the January month).

Post this also data export is not happening in BQ. I have continuously monitored the event volume after excluding 16 events from export, it never went above 0.8M per day.

Any suggestions to solve this? Could this be a bug in GA4?

[marckevin]

Hi @aniket_19,

Welcome to Google Cloud Community!

Here are several suggestions that may help resolve the issue:

• Double check your event exclusion, check if the exact event names you excluded were correct.
• Try to re-link BigQuery and GA4 to re-establish the connection.
• BigQuery exports occur once daily, dataset generation can sometimes be delayed due to export errors, however, export times usually return to normal on subsequent days.
• Check Audit Logging on BigQuery, to further analyze your issue, you may examine and review logs related to BigQuery and GA4 which can provide more insights into the issue.
• Delays in dataset export (or missing datasets) can be caused by exceeding Quota and Limits. Ensure you are not going over these limits.
• Ensure that the time zones in GA4 and BigQuery are consistent and that the reporting time zone remains unchanged. Additionally, verify that the time ranges in GA4 and BigQuery are aligned when exporting data.

If the issue persists, I recommend reaching out to the Google Analytics Help Community for further assistance and other questions related to GA4.

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[aniket_19]

Hi @marckevin ,

Thank you for your response and the detailed suggestions.

I have cross-verified the following:

• The event exclusions were applied correctly.
• There have been no recent changes to the time zone settings.
• The BigQuery quota limits do not appear to have been exceeded, Billing is already enabled if in case.

Regarding your suggestion to re-link BigQuery and GA4, I have a couple of concerns:

1. Will re-linking impact the existing historical data in BigQuery?
2. After re-linking, will the data continue to flow into the same event_* dataset, with new tables being created daily under the same dataset?

I would appreciate your guidance on this before proceeding.