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Self-hosted analytics
Is there anything in the space between Piwik (PHP/MySQL Wordpress-level beginner) and Snowplow (absurdly over the top enterprise ETL)?
I'm looking to do analytics with custom segmenting and custom visitor fields (like tagging a session with userid) for a few tens of million pv a month (personal project; not a commercial business and not a lot of disposable income for it pay-per-pageview analytics).
Is there anything else around? OWA and Urchin are dead, afaik.
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Piwik is good though
It's fine but I'm looking for something that scales easier and has a bit more features
You can use more than one app as long as you can pipe it all into a DB that'll take it all (or multiple DBs that can pipe it to some sort of visualization or whatever it is you're looking for solution). It's not going to be the most efficient but you literally can choose what you want to collect and how to display it.
Old thread, but bumping:
Right now my stack:
InfluxDB https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/influxdb/ (I push the page render time in here, along with other metrics, this way I can ask questions such as "what is the average ttfb/render time/page generation time for users originating from a specific city" @ https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/chronograf/)
Piwik (completely useless to view the actual dashboard, takes 15 min to render, but I'm still collecting INSERT'd data with it)
Sentry (https://github.com/getsentry/onpremise) - all of my exceptions in JS are sent here, and I use this to fix my code and defend against shitty extensions (a lot of the issues that are created are because people have malware/adware toolbars that try to tamper with the page)
I am always looking out for something to replace piwik still.
Whats wrong with Google Analytics?
Influxdb is pretty nice but remember that once you have to scale (cluster/shard management) things you will need to subscribe to their $700 per month package for 2 servers.
Piwik here + redis queued tracking for better scalability http://piwik.org/faq/how-to/faq_19738/
GA is a constant uphill battle with spam. Piwik is great. GoSquared is also good if you want to get simple data out quickly/clearly - but not self hosted and has been a number of price hikes in recent months.
GA and all the popular ones are long since banned or blocked by most clients, my site is related online video games/esports, ~93% block rates (self measured by loading two HTTP No Content images, one named something really obviously blocked and one named something random)