Analytics and monitoring
Datarot alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
umami-software/umami★38,213 GitHub starsMIT licenceSelf-hosted, privacy-first web analytics with a tracking script, event collection, and admin dashboard.Open on GitHub ↗PostHog/posthog★37,713 GitHub starslicence unclearFull-featured product analytics platform with tracking, event ingestion, storage, and realtime dashboards.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Scale and high-throughput event ingestion guarantees and ops
- Polish, analytics UX, dashboards and long-term retention features
- Multiple built-in vendor integrations and marketplaces
- Commercial SLAs, backups, and compliance/legal assurances
- Mobile/desktop SDK coverage and managed security reviews
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Datarot, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.