I'm using Ackee (https://github.com/electerious/Ackee) - it doest everything I need it to, you can self-host it and it's quite fast
Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#122I use Countly for all my websites and mobile apps, self hosted: https://github.com/Countly
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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And we can find alternative open-source projects to Posthog here https://www.libhunt.com/PostHog/posthog . In fact, we can find alternatives to most of the popular GitHub projects on LibHunt. All you need to do is open a GitHub repo and replace "github" with "libhunt" within the URL. Disclosure: LibHunt is a project I work on.
> In fact, we can find alternatives to most of the popular GitHub projects on LibHunt How does it compare to alternativeto?
LibHunt is focussed on open-source projects only. It's primarily based on common mentions from around the web.
On the other hand, SaaSHub (another project I work on) is a direct competitor to AlternativeTo
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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PostHog has iOS/Android/Flutter/React Native libraries for analytics - full details https://posthog.com/docs/integrate#client-libraries . We don't have session recording / feature flags everywhere yet though (I work there)
Do the PostHog Android and iOS libraries automatically collect & report metrics like OS version & app version so I can easily track how many users are on each version? We're still using Flurry right now but looking for a replacement.
Yep! See [0] for an overview of the properties we automatically collect
[0] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-ios/blob/8734361939c46647...
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#125Snowplow, also open source, has a comparison of a bunch of other open source analytics products for different functions:
https://snowplowanalytics.com/blog/2021/01/05/the-top-14-ope...
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#126I wrote two articles about this for LWN last year. Several of them are self-hostable. Summary: https://lwn.net/Articles/822568/ : lightweight options: GoatCounter and Plausible (open source), Simple Analytics and Fathom (closed) https://lwn.net/Articles/824294/ : more alternatives: Matomo and Open Web Analytics (fairly heavyweight but both open source), Countly (open core), Snowplow Analytics (open source but enterpr…
I've been a Snowplow user for nearly a decade. It's a bit of work to set up, but it's the best engineered of all those options. Snowplow's JSON schema events and contexts give you complete flexibility to define a data model that suits your business. Combined with DBT and a BI tool, like Apache Superset, it's vastly more capable than Google Analytics. We have clients running Google Analytics 360 that can't do the stuf…
Hi,
Great to hear your views on Snowplow.
Cheers,
Eddie
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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> google assistance told me that “you need to remove the Matomo javascript as it is a malware” so Google wants Google Analytics to never be threatened for marketshare. A great sign that the free analytics service offered by the advertising company should not be trusted.
Google analytics is only used for advertising purposes if you have that setting is enabled for that website.
Is this the case only on the site it is configured in this manner? Or are you saying that Google analytics data is not collected or used on the site with this setting disabled, but that data from the site with the setting disabled may still be used for advertising purposes on other sites?
Sorry if my phrasing is strained, as I was trying to be precise but it may have impacted readability.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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Side question. Posthog describes an event pipeline. Is there a saas/open source server with event pipelines where you can do add logic to do things, like: send email, notifications, send api call, maybe add custom logic etc. Ive seen things like segment.io, but didn't find a straightforward solution. Example: - if a user finished three workouts, send this notification. - if a user hasn't done a workout in a week remi…
As far as I know, PostHog uses ClickHouse, Redis, and Kafka among other things. https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/architecture From the use cases you're describing, you might want to check out https://customer.io
Customer.io seems closest!
Nobody else does this, I have like 100's of transactional use cases: - Trial almost ending - New signup - CC expired - Reminders, confirmations - Workouts affirmation, reminder etc.
etc.
A pain to write a proper rule system and keep overview in own application.
The challenge is not the simple emails / notifications. But to combine it with more complicated rules, and and + time conditinos
I have the events already in the system, would love to transfer them and have a stable UI / where I can add, create pause etc.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#130Snowplow, also open source, has a comparison of a bunch of other open source analytics products for different functions: https://snowplowanalytics.com/blog/2021/01/05/the-top-14-ope...
As an FYI, Snowplow recently launched its Open Source Quick Start, a set of terraform modules, which automates the setting up & deployment of the required infrastructure & applications for an operational Snowplow open source pipeline, with just a handful of input variables required on your side.
Read more at https://docs.snowplowanalytics.com/docs/open-source-quick-st...
Cheers,
Eddie