Keeping track of custom events in Google Analytics (React app)

Question

I've been running into some difficulty with Google Analytics and keeping track of some custom events that I've made on a React app, using Firebase to handle GA. The event I'm trying to keep trying to keep track of is a string, that will be an "affiliate code" that customers will type in to be able to use the site. This project is for a client that wants to be able to see the total # of people that have entered in various affiliate codes.

So far, I've been able to create and log my custom events I've made, but I don't see any way to see the totals of them over time. I can see the recent codes sent in the last 30 min from the "realtime" page, but not over all time.

To log events, I made a helper function that calls the logEvent() method from firebase/analytics.

addEvent(eventName, parameters = undefined) {
    if (process.env.NODE_ENV === "production") {
      logEvent(this.analytics, eventName, parameters);
    }
  }

In the specific instance of this affiliate code, this is how I'm calling it:

Firebase.addEvent("affiliate_code_entered", {
      affiliate_code: formattedVal,
    });

Does anyone know if there's something I can do to make sure I can see the totals of these affiliate codes entered? Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Answer 1

You can view the statistics about your events in the Firebase console under the Events tab. This dashboard shows the event reports that are created for each distinct type of event logged by your app. Though, you might not see it right away due to Analytics data reporting delay.