# Turn on Google Analytics in the Firebase project, unless it is on already

The step `firebase_analytics.google_analytics`, for [`firebase_analytics`](https://doc.saymyframe.com/modules/firebase-analytics.md).

Firebase Analytics keeps what the app records in Google Analytics. A Firebase project that `flutterfire configure` created has no Google Analytics, and a project created in the console may have been created without it. The app logs its events either way, but they appear nowhere until Google Analytics is on.

Skip this step if the **Analytics** pages of your Firebase project show data or a dashboard rather than a button to enable it.

:::tip
The screenshots show the example Firebase project `My App`. The orange frames mark what to click, in the order of their numbers.
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**1. Open Integrations.** In the [Firebase console](https://console.firebase.google.com/), open your project. In the menu on the left, point at **Settings** and click **Integrations**, which opens the tab **Integrations** (1) of the project settings. On the card **Google Analytics**, click **Enable** (2). A card that says **Enabled** and **Manage** means it is on already.

![The tab Integrations marked 1, with the card Google Analytics and its link Enable marked 2](https://doc.saymyframe.com/assets/images/analytics-enable-58d7cf8cf6f66b583d84e51e9b8ce4d0.png)

**2. Choose an account.** Choose a Google Analytics account in the list (1), or create one there, and click **Enable Google Analytics** (2). Firebase creates a property of Google Analytics in that account and links it to the project.

![Configure Google Analytics, with the list of accounts marked 1 and the button Enable Google Analytics marked 2](https://doc.saymyframe.com/assets/images/analytics-configure-95a00baf31ef63259a3997c2512c727d.png)

The app needs no new configuration for this: the Android and iOS apps of the project send their events to the new property.

**Check.** Run the app and open a few screens. Events arrive in **Analytics > Realtime** within a few minutes. To see them at once, turn on the [DebugView](https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/debugview) of the device.