Ask HN: Not-SaaS analytics

If you're looking for Google Analytics-style "high level website stuff" (visitors, pageviews, per-page, yadda yadda): <a href="http://haveamint.com/" rel="nofollow">http://haveamint.com/</a><p>If you're looking for MixPanel/KissMetrics style arbitrary event tracking, I do not have a good recommendation for you for an OSS or off-the-shelf solution. I'd be interest in hearing others' experiences.<p>A lot of consulting clients end up rolling their own. You can get pretty far with Postgres or Redis and hourly/daily cron jobs which dump their output to a few admin screens. They're several orders of magnitude more expensive than the SaaS alternatives (+), marketing can't use them w/o engineering helping out to set them up, and they're generally going to produce less pretty output, but they're often perfectly adequate for decisionmaking.<p>(+ I struggle to think of a consulting client which does metrics in-house that does not have six figures or more of implicit engineering cost in their metrics systems.)

I've read a previous thread a few months ago asking for advices on analytics for a startup, you can find it here : <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4707903" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4707903</a><p>In it you can find multiple open source solutions such as Piwik (see sheff comment), snowplow (<a href="https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow</a>) and Graphite (<a href="http://graphite.wikidot.com/start" rel="nofollow">http://graphite.wikidot.com/start</a>).<p>Hope this helps.

Have you looked at Piwik ?<p>Its open source, fairly well established and can be self hosted.<p>A list of its main features can be seen here : <a href="http://piwik.org/features/list/" rel="nofollow">http://piwik.org/features/list/</a> .