Many of your reports and explorations can take 24-48 hours to process data from your website or app. You can use the Realtime and DebugView reports to confirm that you're collecting data from your website or app successfully.
Troubleshooting in Google Analytics
Realtime report
Once you add Analytics and people start to use your website or app, you will start to see data in the Realtime report. Anyone with access to the Google Analytics 4 property can view the data in the report. Learn more
DebugView report
The DebugView report lets you monitor events from a browser or mobile device. The report is often used by developers who want to confirm that they're successfully collecting data while setting up events and event parameters on a website or app. Learn more
Realtime vs. DebugView reports
The following table outlines key differences between the two reports:
| Realtime | DebugView |
|---|---|
| Displays user activity during the past 30 minutes | Displays user activity during longer periods than 30 minutes (when you enable debug mode) |
| Supports both web and app data streams | Supports both web and app data streams |
| Creating comparisons lets you see data for a specific stream | Selecting DEBUG DEVICE lets you see data for a specific device |
| The View user snapshot option displays data for a random user | N/A |
| Anyone with access to the Google Analytics 4 property can view the data | Usually used by web or app developers |