The Google Analytics connector used to ask you to open Google Cloud, create a service account, grant it the right role, download a JSON key, and paste the whole thing into a text box. That is a twenty-minute detour through a console most product people have never opened, and it was the single worst step in connector setup.
Now you just sign in
Click connect, sign in with Google, pick the property. That's the flow.
Existing service-account connections keep working — nothing to redo, no migration, no expiry. If you already have one wired up, leave it alone.
Database connections are actually tested
Postgres and MySQL connections now open a real connection to your database when you save them, instead of accepting the credentials and discovering they were wrong on the first sync. You find out you fat-fingered the host while you're still looking at the form.
Connectors re-check themselves
Every validated connector is re-tested weekly. A credential that gets rotated, revoked, or expires now surfaces as a failing connector on its own, rather than sitting there looking connected while quietly syncing nothing.
Errors that say what happened
Connector dialogs used to fall back to a generic failure message that gave you nothing to act on. Every one of them now reports what actually went wrong — wrong credentials, host unreachable, permission missing — and distinguishes a fault worth retrying from one that needs you to change something.
Find it all under Connectors.