Piwik PRO Near Real-Time Alerting [MeasureCamp]

Slides from MeasureCamp Berlin 2024-09-21

1. “Near Real-Time” Alerting
with Piwik PRO

Example: Debugging Broken Events Using PP API + Python

Markus Baersch
No GA4!
No GTM!
… not even
a custom
template!

2. Broken Events: only a few … but why?

4. Broken Events: how to find them?

5. Broken Events?
What if I do not have broken
events?
Use this for:
●alerting when a big fish
filled out a form
●get instant info about $$$ sales
●specific website errors
●automated reporting

… without exposing Webhook API
keys and other stuff in the browser.

6. Step 1
API credentials
●Click your login email address
●Select API keys
●Create a key & copy values

7. Slack app (optional)

… or use Mailgun
Step 2
●https://api.slack.com/messaging/
webhooks
●Copy webhook URL
hooks.slack.com/services/xxxx/yy
yy/zzzz

8. API
Debugger: streams of
sessions & logs
(and sooo much more)
developers.piwik.pro/en/latest/data_collection/
api/tracker_debugger_api.html

9. Boooooooo
! worst joke
ever!

10. Quick Start: use a Colab notebook (or Apps Script)

11. Cloud Run ?????? Function

12. Slack: Receive messages, debug & take action

13. Slack: another example

14. Slack: … and another one

15. Trigger: Use Cron, GCP Cloud Scheduler, Zapier, Make… or Apps Script ;)


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16. Not a GCP fan?: Use Apps Script for everything if you like (not just broken events!)

17. Apps Script: Store in spreadsheet, send emails and / or Slack

18. and Google Sheets?
Why Apps Script
●report consolidation
●easy access to specific data
●a better way to feed
Looker Studio?

19. Done ;)

20. Get the code!
Cloud Function +
Apps Script example +
(some) documentation
github.com/mbaersch/
piwik-pro-broken-event-check
er

22. Getting started: Colab notebooks for Piwik PRO reporting basics

“Full Course”
markus-baersch.de/
pp-api-notebook
Intro, Getting Report Data,
Transformations, Data Viz,
Create PDFs, Automate,
Batching & more
30min Starter
markus-baersch.de/
pp-api-starter
Intro, Using Python, Get
Report Data, Simple Plot

… just to get started
Matomo?
markus-baersch.de/
matomo-api-notebook
Mix of Realtime Alerting &
Reporting Demos in one
notebook

23. https://piwik.pro/piwik-pro-day/

24. Thank you! :)


markus-baersch.de/bsky

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totally unrelated
“Missing Manual”
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