Analytics and monitoring

Heap 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.

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The projects

PostHog/posthog37,541licence unclearFull product analytics platform with autocapture, session replay, feature flags, and dashboards.Open on GitHub matomo-org/matomo21,748GPL-3.0Self-hosted web analytics platform for collecting, visualizing, and analyzing website and app data with privacy controls.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Scale and reliability of Heap’s managed infrastructure
Automatically captured, retroactive data processing at enterprise scale
Built-in advanced data science / Illuminate insights and AI assistant
Session Replay and heatmaps at production scale
Hundreds of pre-built integrations and vendor support/SLAs

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Heap, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.