Open Web Analytics VS Rudderstack

Analytics services can also be self-hosted. While this is a more expensive solution from a management perspective, it is the solution that affords the greatest flexibility for implementing and enforcing privacy protections. There are many offerings in this space, including established projects like Matomo (formerly Piwik) and Open Web Analytics.

It depends on what metrics exactly the analytics want to aim. Maybe it's indeed better to dev something just for this use case. But as he said, “track it ourselves” I'll avoid Google solution and use something like Open Web Analytics (In general case, I don't use Google Analytics any more).

What it is: Open Web Analytics is an open-source web analytics platform that lets you analyze and track your site and app visitors. It offers flexibility to monitor your analytics with a simple and easy-to-use dashboard.

I was looking at Open Web Analytics the other day - seems it can be easily hosted on any hosting plan.

I thought the old self-hosted version was available on github. See how http://www.openwebanalytics.com/ does it.

If CDP(such as RudderStack) were a restaurant, then Data Integration is the guy that gets all raw ingrediants from different shops and makes it available to Chef that sorts and combines raw ingrediants to make a dish. The chef can't cook anything without raw ingrediamt. Similarly Data Integration is also an important component in CDP that collects customer data from various sources and them other components unify it and activate it.

More details on GitHub repository - https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server

Are you RudderStack?

In bigger setups, all you want is a data collector and router so that you can feed the data into multiple destinations, depending on the use case. Analytics is just one. Example: https://www.rudderstack.com/ & https://www.rudderstack.com/replace-google-analytics-4-guide...

Check out RudderStack, a Go project to build data pipeline. Our slack is quite active. The best way to contribute is by creating a new integration with your favorite tool. You do not need to rely to too much on existing knowledge about inner workings of the project to do so, so it is beginner friendly.

Interesting. About "Redshift need google sheet sync to table", wouldn't this be more aligned with the responsibility of a CDP(such as RudderStack) as opposed to something we expext a warehouse to do?

The challenge is over. Winners have been announced. When we are ready for the next one, will announce on RudderStack GitHub repo

Super. This is amazing. Sharing your project with the community. If you get a chance, try out RudderStack to build your pipeline.