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You can install it in two ways: through your [server-side GTM container](/docs/installing-trackingplan/for-ssgtm), or by sending a copy of each request to your ** Trackingplan webhook**. These hits never pass through a browser, so the web snippet and the app SDKs do not see them. Pick the method that matches how your backend sends them. ## Choose your method | Your backend sends Measurement Protocol hits… | Use | | --- | --- | | to your server-side GTM container | [Server-side GTM](#through-server-side-gtm) | | straight to `google-analytics.com/mp/collect` | [Webhook](#through-the-webhook) | ## Through server-side GTM If your Measurement Protocol hits go through a server-side GTM container, install Trackingplan in that container. Follow [Installing Trackingplan for ssGTM](/docs/installing-trackingplan/for-ssgtm): it covers the Trackingplan tag, the snippet for the tags you want to monitor, custom domains and how to check it in preview mode. ## Through the webhook If your backend sends its hits straight to Google, it also sends a copy of each request to your Trackingplan webhook. Trackingplan identifies which destination sent the data and routes it through the right parser. 1. Open your install page, `https://app.trackingplan.com/plans/YOUR_TP_ID/install`, and copy your webhook URL. [Webhooks](/docs/installing-trackingplan/installing-trackingplan-using-webhooks) shows where it is. 2. In your backend, find the code that sends each request to `https://www.google-analytics.com/mp/collect`. 3. After that request, send a copy of it to your webhook URL: the same query string and the same JSON body. 4. Deploy the change. For example, in Node.js: ```js const query = `?measurement_id=${MEASUREMENT_ID}&api_secret=${API_SECRET}`; const body = JSON.stringify(payload); const options = { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body }; await fetch('https://www.google-analytics.com/mp/collect' + query, options); // the copy for Trackingplan: never let it block or break the request to Google fetch(TRACKINGPLAN_WEBHOOK_URL + query, options).catch(() => {}); ``` Send the copy after the request to Google, and do not wait for its answer. If the webhook is unreachable, your hits still reach GA4. ## Check that it works Send a test event from your backend. Then open [Destinations](/docs/destinations): your Measurement Protocol hits appear there as one more destination, with their events and properties. Questions or problems along the way? [Contact support](mailto:support@trackingplan.com). [← Previous**Installing Trackingplan for ssGTM**](/docs/installing-trackingplan/for-ssgtm) [Next →** Environments**](/docs/environments) Was this useful? Write to [support@trackingplan.com](mailto:support@trackingplan.com) On this page 1. [*01*Choose your method](#choose-your-method) 2. [*02*Through server-side GTM](#through-server-side-gtm) 3. [*03*Through the webhook](#through-the-webhook) 4. [*04*Check that it works](#check-that-it-works)