Analytics & Data Management

References

Product Analytics from Scratch · Tim Farrell

Re: "Living in Data" · Tim Farrell

Tools

GitHub - datafuselabs/databend: A powerful cloud data warehouse. Built for elasticity and efficiency. Free and open. Also available in the cloud: https://app.databend.comGitHub

GitHub - PostHog/posthog: 🦔 PostHog provides open-source product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host.GitHub

Links from Nikita Voloboev's wiki

• Fathom - Simple, trustworthy website analytics. Built with Go & Preact. (Code) (Best option for GDPR compliance)

• Matamo - Open source alternative to Google Analytics.

• LocustDB - Massively parallel, high performance analytics database that will rapidly devour all of your data.

• Grafana - Tool for beautiful monitoring and metric analytics & dashboards for Graphite, InfluxDB & Prometheus & More. (Grafana Backup Tool)

• Cube.js - Open source modular framework to build analytical web applications.

• Analytics.js - Hassle-free way to integrate analytics into any web application.

• Kedro - Python library for building robust production-ready data and analytics pipelines. (Article)

• Plausible Analytics - Simple, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. (Code) (HN) (HN 2) (Docs) (Lobsters)

• Metabase - Easy, open source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data. (Code) (Binary deployment)

• OmniSci - Interactively query, visualize, and power data science workflows over billions of records. (1.1 Billion Taxi Rides using OmniSciDB and a MacBook Pro)

• Freshlytics - Open source privacy-friendly analytics software. It aims to be reliable, friendly to use and easy to deploy.

• GoatCounter - Simple web statistics. No tracking of personal data. (Code)

• MixPanel - Analyze user behavior across your sites and apps. Then send messages and run experiments from what you learned–all in Mixpanel.

• What is your preferred web traffic analytics platform? (2020)

• blackrock - Events & Analytics.

• RudderStack - Platform for collecting, storing and routing customer event data to dozens of tools. (Code)

• OpenTelemetry API for JavaScript - Framework for collecting traces and metrics from applications.

• PostHog - Developer-friendly, open-source product analytics. (Code)

• A simple way to get more value from metrics

• We ditched Google Analytics for good (2020) (HN)

• Netlify Analytics

• Analytics - Lightweight analytics abstraction layer for tracking page views, custom events, & identifying visitors. (Docs)

• Roll Your Own Analytics

• Lightweight alternatives to Google Analytics (2020) (Lobsters)

• More alternatives to Google Analytics (2020) (Lobsters)

• Fathom Analytics: Count on it (2020)

• Time-based analytics, longitudinal clustering of usage data

• Deep Dive Into My Stats Page (2020)

• Using event naming conventions to keep analytics data clean

• Goodhart's Law and how systems are shaped by the metrics you chase (2020) (HN)

• Simple Analytics - Simple, clean, and privacy-friendly analytics. (Telegram Widget)

• GoAccess - Visual Web Log Analyzer.

• Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD (2020) (HN)

• kSense - Insanely Fast Analytics.

• Umami - Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics. (HN)

• Privacy Focused Analytics From Scratch (2020)

• Cloudflare Web Analytics (Article) (HN) (HN 2) (Review) (HN 3)

• Big tech finally challenges Fathom Analytics (2020)

• Umami - Simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics. (Code) (HN)

• The Analytics That Matter (2020)

• The Startup Guide to Analytics

• userTrack - Self-Hosted Analytics. (HN)

• Ackee - Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy. (Web)

• Shynet - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.

• Frovedis - Framework of vectorized and distributed data analytics.

• AWS Web Analytics - Privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics on AWS Pinpoint.

• Microsoft Clarity - Analytics for Websites.

• Splitbee - Friendly all-in-one analytics & conversion tool.

• Real-time Security Insights: Apache Pinot at Confluera (2020)

• Ask HN: How to run analytics on data without access to the data? (2020)

• Analytics Zoo - Distributed Tensorflow, Keras and PyTorch on Apache Spark/Flink & Ray.

• How I replaced google analytics on my website (2020)

• Datadog - Cloud Monitoring as a Service. (GitHub)

• Datadog Agent

• Awesome Analytics

• Panelbear - Fast and privacy-friendly website analytics.

• Squzy - High-performance open-source monitoring, incident and alert system written in Go with Bazel.

• Webmention Analytics - Analytics dashboard for webmention.io data. (Article)

• Why Databricks Is Winning In The Data & Analytics Market (2021) (HN)

• Minimally Invasive (and More Accurate) Analytics: GoAccess and Athena/SQL (2021) (HN)

• Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast (2021) (HN)

• Counter - Simple and Free Web Analytics. (HN) (Code)

• Redata - Better monitoring for data teams. (Code)

• SaaS Metrics - Collection of articles and interactive models, to help you understand the metrics that matter to your SaaS business.

• Volument - Smarter take on website analytics. (HN)

• June - Instant analytics reports, on top of Segment.

• A list of privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternatives (2021) (HN)

• ganalytics - Tiny (312B) client-side module for tracking with Google Analytics.

• Load-testing my Web Analytics Tool

• Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics (2021) (HN)

• Monitor ClickHouse with Prometheus & Grafana (2021)

• Pirsch Analytics - Cookie-Free Alternative to Google Analytics.

• Dune Analytics - Free crypto analytics by and for the community. (Dune Snippets)

• Bast - Web analytics focusing on privacy and simplicity.

• Sensor Tower - Mobile App Store Marketing Intelligence.

• Analytics Next - Latest version of Segment’s JavaScript SDK - enabling you to send your data to any tool.

• Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?

• Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics? (2022)

• Census - Operational Analytics. Sync data from your warehouse into all your business tools. (Article)

• Chaos Genius - ML powered analytics engine for outlier detection and root cause analysis.

• consent-manager - Drop-in consent management plugin for analytics.js.

• AppSignal - Application Monitoring for Ruby on Rails, Elixir & Node.js.

• Offen - Fair and lightweight alternative to common web analytics tools. (Code)

• Ballcone - Fast and lightweight server-side Web analytics solution. It requires no JavaScript on your website.

• Fugu - Simple and privacy-friendly product analytics. (Code)

• Product Analytics from Scratch (2022)

• In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow (2022) (Code)

• Objectiv - Open-source product analytics infrastructure with a generic event taxonomy. (Web) (HN)

• Snowplow - Enterprise-grade behavioral data engine (web, mobile, server-side, webhooks), running cloud-natively on AWS and GCP.

• dbt Product Analytics (HN)

• Serverless Realtime Analytics for Next.js with Vercel Edge, Upstash Kafka and Tinybird (2022)

• Minimal-Analytics - Minimal versions of popular analytics libraries. Reduce the impact of third-party scripts on your application.