Self-hosted analytics, the open-source picks worth running
If you don't want to feed your visitor data to Google Analytics or pay per-event for Mixpanel, you can self-host an analytics tool on a $5/mo VPS and own the data forever. These are the open-source projects ranked by health score, with the cost to actually run each one.
The 24 picks, ranked by health
Health score is a 6-dimension composite. See methodology.
Open source, privacy-first web analytics. Lightweight, cookie-free Google Analytics alternative. Self-hosted or cloud.
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Empowering People Ethically, Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐ - Pull Requests welcome!
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data
DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system
SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. . Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool
Your window into all of your data
Countly is a privacy-first, AI-powered analytics and engagement platform for understanding and optimizing customer journeys across digital applications, from desktop and mobile to IoT and connected environments.
PostHog is an all-in-one developer platform for building successful products. We offer product analytics, web analytics, session replay, error tracking, feature flags, experimentation, surveys, data warehouse, a CDP, and an AI product assistant to help debug your code, ship features faster, and keep all your usage and customer data in one stack.
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
Simple, Elastic-quality search for Postgres
Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.
Open-source reporting platform to build and share live dashboards from APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases, with powerful AI assistant, scheduling, and embeddable charts
Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
AI Data Vault - A query engine for AI Agents to securely query data from any datasource
Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel™ (XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / XLTX) spreadsheets
Rybbit - open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive.
A portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and management application that protects your privacy
Open source LLM engineering platform: LLM Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground, datasets. Integrates with OpenTelemetry, Langchain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and more. YC W23
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing API ⭐ Consumption tracking, Subscription management, Pricing iterations, Payment orchestration & Revenue analytics
Open device management
The open-source Observability 2.0 database. One engine for metrics, logs, and traces, replacing Prometheus, Loki & ES.
Specifically replacing
These categories on ossreplace cover the SaaS in this space.
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Most operators land on analytics (top health) and run it on hetzner for around $4.13/mo.