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For a very long time, I've been using shynet [0] on my personal blog. I've not played around the alternatives but there are quite a few:

- Plausible: https://plausible.io/

- umami: https://umami.is/

- Fathom: https://usefathom.com/

[0]: https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

Early Plausible customer here — Happy so far; most importantly is the necessary feature to proxy myhost.com/randomstats.js to their server to circumvent blocking.

Eventually these new-gen solutions all look and work the same now so it's mostly about the UI you prefer. Can't do magic without cookies and stuff.

These tools can't be used to analyze "web server" (e.g. nginx) logs.

Author of Shynet here! Hope you like it :)

Lovely! Thanks for buliding it.

What's the question you want to answer? And do you want to monitor specific metrics; or run adhoc queries?

FWIW I'm trialing out using Grafana's Loki for this.

4xx/5xx status codes, response times percentiles, referrers, etc.

I've been experimenting with Grafana + Loki and it has been a pleasant experience.

I'd love to see this in its own thread!