Before you begin
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products. It provides a set of management tools and a series of modular cloud services, including computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine learning.
Integration with Google Cloud
1. To set up your Google Cloud account, go to the website directly.
You are to turn on API here to allow Affise to pass the data to Google Cloud:
2. On Affise, go to Attribution > Tools > Google Cloud and fill in Google Cloud configuration settings to create integration:
You can see the following fields:
Credentials: the access data to the Storage in your Google Cloud.
Bucket: the main folder the system sends your data to in the created Storage.
Directory: the way in the Bucket your data will be sent to.
Sources: you can select the following options:
Clicks
Conversions
Events
Installs
Select them to send raw data on all clicks and conversions.
To find credentials, do the following:
a. Open Google Cloud Platform and go to Menu > IAM & Admin > Service Accounts:
b. On the Service Accounts page, select the service account for the needed project and take a Key ID in the Key ID column. If this column is empty, you can create a new Key ID by clicking Actions > Create key > JSON > Create:
⚠️ The account should have the "Owner" role. Otherwise, there's no possibility of streaming the data into the bucket.
c. Enter Key ID into the Credentials field on Affise:
🔎 You can choose certain affiliates and/or advertisers whose clicks, installs, events and/or conversions the system sends to Google Cloud. It allows paying not for all conversions, but only for the needed ones.
On this page, you can also do the following:
Delete integration: turn on the slider to stop the sync on sending the data from Affise to Google Cloud. It's completely erased from the Affise side. All previously uploaded to Google Cloud files remain in their folders.
Save: after setting your account on the Google Cloud side, the system sends your data on clicks and conversions to be stored there.
Sending information on clicks and conversions
The system creates .CSV file, compresses it into .GZ file, and sends it to Google Cloud Storage. The .GZ format saves storage capacity. The system sends the file every 15 minutes by default.
The system starts the creation of a folder tree according to the current date of exporting process execution, and segments archives into the following folders: Year, Month, Day and the files are named according to the date {YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss}.
Please contact the Affise Customer Support team regarding all raised questions via the e-mail: [email protected].