TractionScout

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Connecting your data sources

Use Configure → Data Sources in your project to inspect the current provider catalog. Each entry describes its authentication, required fields, scopes, supported metrics, synchronization behavior, and execution capabilities. This catalog is the source of truth for what your deployment can connect and do.

Check support before connecting

  • Available means a supported implementation exists for the capabilities shown. You may still need provider credentials, account features, resource selection, or provider approval.
  • Guided means setup still depends on deployment configuration, an external execution bridge, or a manual step.
  • Planned describes intended support and is not a working connection.

Examples include TractionScout Site Tracking and Plausible for website analytics, PostHog for product events, Stripe for revenue, and GitHub, Vercel, Cloudflare, and Sentry for code and web operations. Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console may require deployment-owned OAuth configuration. Confirm each entry's current status rather than assuming a provider logo promises all of its features.

Connect and verify

  1. Choose the provider that supplies evidence for your current question.
  2. Read the setup panel's prerequisites and requested scopes. Use an account authorized for the intended project, site, property, or other resource.
  3. Complete the provider's OAuth flow or enter the requested credential in the connection form. For example, PostHog uses a scoped personal API key; Stripe can use a restricted read key for revenue evidence.
  4. Select the intended resource when the connector offers resource discovery.
  5. Run the available readiness or diagnostics check, then synchronize data. Inspect freshness, historical coverage, and any partial failures before treating the result as complete.

Reading analytics does not grant permission to publish, change budgets, or modify provider resources. Review those capabilities separately when setting up execution. Provider subscriptions, API access, and usage charges may also be prerequisites.

For website collection, follow Installing web tracking and review Configure → Privacy & tracking. Step-by-step guides exist for the sources available during the alpha: Google Search Console, PostHog, Stripe, X, and TikTok. Other OAuth sources show Coming soon until they are verified. For automated discovery of the same connection capabilities, see Agent CLI and MCP. Return to Getting started to turn connected evidence into a first reviewable action.

Keep an existing analytics tool useful

See Plausible, PostHog, DataFast, and TractionScout for the jobs each tool serves and the verified connection paths. A product comparison does not imply a connector exists. In particular, inspect the catalog before assuming native DataFast support.

Review measurement methodology before joining sources. Matching time periods do not establish matching people, and source-specific definitions remain attached to the recorded evidence.