Update GA4 Docs Session ID and Session Number #2925
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With the latest changes to the Google Measurement API, session data can now be sent to GA4 once the session_id and session_number are sent in the payload. Finding this data can be difficult for customers given that retrieving these values is not explicitly linked to the GA4 docs anywhere. This addition to our docs includes a working code example of how to retrieve these values from a site using gtag.
To test this code, I used the following GA4 property:
Installed the property on a locally hosted webpage:
Running the code in the console resulted in this output:
Matching the session ID and Number for the session_start event in the GA4 real-time report:
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