GameAnalytics Metrics API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: GameAnalytics REST APIs Collection Metrics API
  description: 'Representative OpenAPI description of the public GameAnalytics REST surfaces: the Collection (Collector) API for HMAC-signed event ingestion, the Metrics API for aggregated reporting, and the Organization API for programmatic administration of games, studios, users, and permissions. Endpoints and authentication reflect the public GameAnalytics documentation; consult the docs for the full request/response payloads, which are large and evolving.'
  termsOfService: https://gameanalytics.com/terms/
  contact:
    name: GameAnalytics Support
    url: https://gameanalytics.com/contact/
  version: '1.0'
servers:
- url: https://api.gameanalytics.com
  description: Collection API - production
- url: https://sandbox-api.gameanalytics.com
  description: Collection API - sandbox
- url: https://metrics.gameanalytics.com
  description: Metrics API
- url: https://organization.gameanalytics.com
  description: Organization API
tags:
- name: Metrics
  description: Aggregated gameplay metrics and reporting.
paths:
  /metrics/v1/metrics/{metric}:
    post:
      operationId: queryMetric
      tags:
      - Metrics
      summary: Query an aggregated gameplay metric.
      description: Returns aggregated metric data (for example `dau`, `mau`, `retention_retro`, `arpu`, `arppu`, `session_length`, `revenue`, `ad_revenue`) as JSON. Authenticated with the `X-API-Key` header. The body specifies an ISO-8601 `interval`, a `granularity`, an optional `game` id, and a `query` object of type `group`, `split`, or `timeseries`.
      servers:
      - url: https://metrics.gameanalytics.com
      security:
      - apiKeyHeader: []
      parameters:
      - name: metric
        in: path
        required: true
        description: The metric to query (e.g. dau, mau, retention_retro, arpu, arppu, session_length).
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricsQuery'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Metric result.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricsResult'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
    MetricsResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        interval:
          type: string
        granularity:
          type: string
        results:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            additionalProperties: true
    MetricsQuery:
      type: object
      required:
      - interval
      - granularity
      - query
      properties:
        game:
          type: integer
          description: The game id to query (optional for some query types).
        interval:
          type: string
          description: ISO-8601 interval, e.g. "2026-06-01/P1W".
          example: 2026-06-01/P1W
        granularity:
          type: string
          enum:
          - day
          - week
          - all
        days_since_install:
          type: array
          items:
            type: integer
          description: Optional cohort array (0-90) for retention-style metrics.
        filter:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
        query:
          type: object
          description: The query specification.
          properties:
            type:
              type: string
              enum:
              - group
              - split
              - timeseries
            dimensions:
              type: array
              items:
                type: string
            limit:
              type: integer
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid authentication (bad HMAC signature or API key).
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    hmacAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: Base64-encoded HMAC-SHA256 digest of the raw (optionally gzipped) request body, keyed with the game's secret key. Used by the Collection API.
    apiKeyHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-Key
      description: API key generated in the GameAnalytics dashboard. The Metrics API uses the `X-API-Key` header; the Organization API uses an equivalent API-key header.