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Re:Ask HN: Who is using a self hosted analytics system? by ohgh1ieD on Monday December 05, 2016 @03:22PM (#13109075)
I'm actually on the same road right now, currently I'm testing Piwik.

https://piwik.org

Re:Ask HN: Who is using a self hosted analytics system? by pesfandiar on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:19PM (#13109716)
What's your experience with it so far? I was playing around with it at a startup a few years ago. It seemed to have a strong community and features were popping up rather quickly. However, it didn't scale that well for us.
Re:Ask HN: Who is using a self hosted analytics system? by ohgh1ieD on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:25PM (#13109786)
I'm very pleased so far, but as I said, it's too early for me to tell something.

> However, it didn't scale that well for us.

What kind of scaling problems did you encounter ?

Re:Ask HN: Who is using a self hosted analytics system? by pesfandiar on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:30PM (#13110396)
In fairness to Piwik, it was some of the custom metrics that required more processing power. We ended up doing delayed batch processing for them.

Towards the end, IIRC, the calculation of unique visitors within a custom range was also slow.

Re:Ask HN: Who is using a self hosted analytics system? by user5994461 on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @07:52PM (#13127586)
Last I checked it only runs over a MySQL.

I don't know how many visitors and page views you have, but that's a red flag for most established sites.

Re:Ask HN: Who is using a self hosted analytics system? by mfrye0 on Monday December 05, 2016 @03:26PM (#13109110)
Yeah I've been looking at Piwik. What do you think so far?

The only aspect I didn't like was it was PHP. Not really my strong language - if I wanted to customize it.

Re:Ask HN: Who is using a self hosted analytics system? by ohgh1ieD on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:23PM (#13109764)
I'm measuring its footprint, it's too early for me to tell, I can refer back to you, after I've done some tests.
Re:Ask HN: Who is using a self hosted analytics system? by mfrye0 on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:32PM (#13109857)
Yeah, that would be awesome.