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We've been looking for analytics for web application, which could be run in our own servers. I like Mixpanel, but because of the nature of the service, we have to keep the data on our servers.
Any recommendations or experiences?
If you're looking for MixPanel/KissMetrics style arbitrary event tracking, I do not have a good recommendation for you for an OSS or off-the-shelf solution. I'd be interest in hearing others' experiences.
A lot of consulting clients end up rolling their own. You can get pretty far with Postgres or Redis and hourly/daily cron jobs which dump their output to a few admin screens. They're several orders of magnitude more expensive than the SaaS alternatives (+), marketing can't use them w/o engineering helping out to set them up, and they're generally going to produce less pretty output, but they're often perfectly adequate for decisionmaking.
(+ I struggle to think of a consulting client which does metrics in-house that does not have six figures or more of implicit engineering cost in their metrics systems.)
Its open source, fairly well established and can be self hosted.
A list of its main features can be seen here : http://piwik.org/features/list/ .
In it you can find multiple open source solutions such as Piwik (see sheff comment), snowplow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) and Graphite (http://graphite.wikidot.com/start).
Hope this helps.
I've read a previous thread a few months ago asking for advices on analytics for a startup, you can find it here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4707903 In it you can find multiple open source solutions such as Piwik (see sheff comment), snowplow ( https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow ) and Graphite ( http://graphite.wikidot.com/start ). Hope this helps.
We don't need to know where our users come etc, but more following certain events and patterns and how they engage with the app.