Recommendations for Server side Analytics?
Hey folks I'm looking for server side analytics.
I have apps which won't work with traditional analytics(because of cors issues and other stuff) and I'm looking for serverside analytics.
The current wave of analytics(Fathom, Plausible, etc) don't have a server side component. You still need to embed a js script. Google analytics - I can't use their measurement protocol, maybe its bugged out for me for some reason.
If you've been using server side analytics I would love to check out your choices.
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Amplitude gives you the ability to send your own events via their API. I'm just getting started using them so I'm not sure if I would recommend them yet or not.
Just in case you are using Django, I've just created django-amplitude (open source) to help send page view events automatically to them.
I think Amplitude is overkill considering all I want is simple server side analytics where I can track users. Anyhow, I found one after a long time called nucleus.sh
Works pretty well for me so far.
I think you need to build your own. I don't know any tooling for that except log based analytics. You can always build your own though. Publish events when it happened and consume them and put the data into time series db such as BigQuery.
Do you mean log processors? I think that area is pretty neglected these days. AWStats still came up high when I last checked a year or two ago (since went with JS-based analytics because I got more bot/spam traffic than actual visitors haha).
https://goaccess.io/ looks pretty cool as well. Nerdy-cool anyway :)
No I mean actual analytics. Like being able to track users and such.