Google analytics events not showing up

Question

New to google analytics so bear with me. I added the event tracking to my code, but when i check in the reporting behavior event tab it's blank. Here is my code.

  <script>
    (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
    (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
    m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
    })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
    ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXXX', 'auto');
    ga('send', 'pageview');
  </script>

here is an example of my a tag

<a href="http://example.com/" target="_blank" class="app-logo" ga('send', 'event', 'Link', 'Click', 'example.com');>

Answer 1

In google-analytics, for the correct website, look on the "realtime/events" page and see if events are appearing there (they should appear here within a few seconds, after being triggered on your website).

If not, you might have added a filter, to filter out events generated by traffic from your own IP. You can find this filter under "admin" and then "all filters". If so, remove it (or temporarily change the IP-address, so it doesn't match). After that, generate a few events on your website and look again on the google-analytics page, under realtime traffic / events page.

If they work under realtime, it should also work in non-realtime (but it might take 24-48 hours to appear there!)