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What do you use for server-side metrics/analytics?

Hey all, question is basically the title. I just want to do some simple counting and time series graphing. Any services out there that'll do the job? I use Plausible for client-side metrics and like how simple it is, so I'm wondering if there are similar solutions for backend metrics.

on January 11, 2022
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    If you don't have fancy needs and can go with something really crude, you could use Node-Red. I have done so in the past. Running both Node-Red and app server on the same host, I just sent/parsed metrics using UDP from app to Node-Red and used dashboards to display stats. It was basic but did the job.

    If you don't know Node-Red, look it up, even if it doesn't fit your use case, it's an awesome open-source project that is so under-used. Yet it has tremendous power.