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Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by toshk »

Jugurtha wrote: post #38

PostHog: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog if you want to deploy it yourself and https://posthog.com if you want the SaaS. I was using Avodocs ( https://www.avodocs.com ) to produce a privacy policy for our MLOps platform, https://iko.ai , but they didn't have PostHog in the list for the "Analytics" section, and they assumed that doing analytics implied sending user data to a third party site or something. I tweeted…

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 remind them etc.

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by Jugurtha »

toshk wrote: post #61
Jugurtha wrote: post #38

PostHog: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog if you want to deploy it yourself and https://posthog.com if you want the SaaS. I was using Avodocs ( https://www.avodocs.com ) to produce a privacy policy for our MLOps platform, https://iko.ai , but they didn't have PostHog in the list for the "Analytics" section, and they assumed that doing analytics implied sending user data to a third party site or something. I tweeted…

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

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by eloisius »

spreeker wrote: post #43

https://www.goatcounter.com/

I switched to goat counter recently and I’m happy with it. It’s not exactly an open source alternative to Google Analytics, because it’s more privacy oriented. If you want to track and profile your audience, it’s probably not what you want. I just want to get traffic numbers by page, though, so it’s perfect. They even support a hit counter pixel instead of adding a script tag if you want even more minimal, privacy-friendly stats.

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Post by anurag »

Jugurtha wrote: post #38

PostHog: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog if you want to deploy it yourself and https://posthog.com if you want the SaaS. I was using Avodocs ( https://www.avodocs.com ) to produce a privacy policy for our MLOps platform, https://iko.ai , but they didn't have PostHog in the list for the "Analytics" section, and they assumed that doing analytics implied sending user data to a third party site or something. I tweeted…

We created a one-click deploy for Posthog if you want to kick the tires: https://render.com/docs/deploy-posthog.

More OSS analytics tools here: https://render.com/docs/docker#analytics-and-business-intell...

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by monocularvision »

nodamage wrote: post #56

Of the answers posted here I am curious if any of them are suitable for mobile (iOS/Android) or desktop (Mac/Windows) apps, or if they are all web-oriented?

Every time this question / topic comes up, I read through the replies and can never find one for Mobile apps. I guess it might be time to start my own.

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by charcircuit »

propogandist wrote: post #47
joshuaissac wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Matomo Google may sometimes disable AdWords campaigns on sites that use Matomo. They "fix" it every once in a while when Matomo devs reach out to them, but the problem returns after a few months each time. https://forum.matomo.org/t/adwords-campaign-rejected-for-goo...

> 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.

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by jerojero »

paxcoder wrote: post #41
joshuaissac wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Matomo Google may sometimes disable AdWords campaigns on sites that use Matomo. They "fix" it every once in a while when Matomo devs reach out to them, but the problem returns after a few months each time. https://forum.matomo.org/t/adwords-campaign-rejected-for-goo...

Makes me think Matomo's doing something right

Yes but also if you want to reach people you can't "side" with them or you will be losing business. That's the power of the monopolies for you.

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by funOtter »

drchaim wrote: post #40

As I predicted around 2018, most or all analytics/events products will eventually move to ClickHouse or related technology (forks). Plausible: ClickHouse PostHog: ClickHouse Panbelbear: Clickhouse https://pirsch.io/ : ClickHouse. PD: I should have a blog or something where I put this predicts :)

What is ClickHouse and why do all projects move to it?

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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Post by nightpool »

ukutaht wrote: post #48
juriansluiman wrote: post #10

As stated by others already, there's Plausible (plausible.io) and Matomo (matomo.org). I have used both and stuck at Plausible. A few reasons (subjective): 1. Plausible is GDPR compliant by default, it has an effective way to measure analytics throughout the day without cookies 2. It is simple and that's key. I don't need to know much, Plausible just gives me that 3. It's fairly lightweight. Matomo is quite heavy and…

Disclaimer: Plausible Analytics founder here I think Matomo is quite similar to Google Analytics which many people feel is bloated and confusing from the user's perspective. The idea with Plausible is to simplify web analytics and make it more understandable compared to what GA/Matomo offer. Granted, Matomo does have more depth and features in some areas. It can be the better choice if you want to go very deep into a…

Have you done a comparison with PostHog? I see a lot of people here recommending them also
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