LWN: Comments on "More alternatives to Google Analytics"

More alternatives to Google Analytics

EddieM — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:09:01 +0000

Hi Ben,
Snowplow recently eased the setup of their open source implementation quite considerably - you can find out more at https://docs.snowplowanalytics.com/docs/open-source-quick...
In brief, Snowplow have built a set of terraform modules, which automates the setting up & deployment of the required infrastructure & applications for an operational Snowplow open source pipeline, with just a handful of input variables required on your side.
There is also a trial version of the commercial offering at https://try.snowplowanalytics.com/
HTH,
Eddie

More alternatives to Google Analytics

vegge — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:17:03 +0000

There is also Analog CE, an occasionally updated version of the old C language log parser Analog

https://github.com/c-amie/analog-ce

It has useful filtering capabilities and configurable HTML output.

More alternatives to Google Analytics

ibukanov — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 14:09:43 +0000

It is disappointing that the review does not mention referrer spam [1] filtering capabilities of the analytics software. This is important as for some sites most of the traffic is from such spam.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer_spam

More alternatives to Google Analytics

k3ninho — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:25:37 +0000

Analysis using web logs is a huge topic to leave at the end. Can a future update please delve into finding-signal-in-the-noise (or structure in unstructured data) and acknowledge the monster ELK stack of Elasticsearch (aggregation and indexing) Logstash (data storage and ageing off) and Kibana/Grafana (visualisations)?

K3n.