How to delete an Analytics Event from Firebase

Question

How can I delete an Analytics Event from Firebase?

While I am testing I wrote some events in Firebase Analytics. Firebase by default orders all events alphabetically. So these testing events interrupts with original events.

I could arrange them by count to push all the testing events to last. But it makes difficult to find the main events since those are not alphabetically sorted.

I didn't find any options in Firebase dashboard to delete a event. Is there a way to delete the old events from firebase?

Solution 1

There is currently no way to delete events once they are logged into Firebase Analytics that I am aware of. However, the events will drift out of the default view (which is set to "last 30 days") as time goes on, or you can switch the time period to a shorter time. As you mentioned, you can also click a column header to sort by some other value or "add filter" to filter by an audience or user property.

Solution 2

You can create a new Firebase project if you want to start from scratch. It's also a fairly common practice to use one project for experimentation and validation of your analytics implementation and then to switch to your production Firebase project when everything looks good.

Comments

[Frank van Puffelen]

I'm having trouble what an "event" is here. Can you show some code? Or if there is no code, describe what Firebase feature you're using?

[Ashok Varma]

@FrankvanPuffelen Firebase analytics event

[greeble31]

See my answer for new information as of 31 May 2018.

[Davi]

so, there was no need to repeat his answer. Just upvote it

[Dyno Cris]

"or you can switch the time period to a shorter time" how to do it?

[Miguel Lasa]

There is a drop down menu on the top right corner of the events dashboard. You have a ton of options and you can even set a custom time frame. Your question makes me believe you haven't really taken the time to go through the dashboard properly. Hope it helps.