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Metabase | Umami | |
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66 | 111 | |
36,177 | 19,188 | |
1.5% | 4.2% | |
10.0 | 9.8 | |
about 16 hours ago | 4 days ago | |
Clojure | TypeScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Metabase
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Blazer: Business Intelligence Made Simple
We've used it for about a year - Blazer is okay if you need a quick SQL query console, but we found it lacking as an actual business intelligence tool. The support for graphs and dashboards is limited, for graphs it requires you to structure the query in an exact way as you can see in the Blazer readme.
After some research on available alternatives that don't break the bank, we decided to deploy a self-hosted instance of Metabase[0]. This took only a few minutes to set up using their Docker image[1] and it has much better graphing capabilities and you can easily put a custom layout together for dashboards. Upgrading is similarly easy (just redeploy). Also easy to configure: data sources, hiding or changing the data type of a column, G Suite sign-in for our domain. Highly recommend it if you need anything more than Blazer's table output.
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Is Tableau Dead?
I've never used Tableau, but heard a lot of hate about it. However, in my previous role, we were big fans of Metabase (https://metabase.com). You can also self-host it, which was a huge win for us.
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My mental model of Clojure transducers
It seems folks want a working example. Here's one in prod:
Metabase is a BI tool, backend written mostly in Clojure. Like basically all BI tools they have this intermediate representation language thing so you write the same thing in "MBQL (metabase query language)" and it theoretically becomes same query in like, Postgres and Mongo and whatever. End user does not usually write MBQL, it's a service for the frontend querybuilding UI thing and lots of other frontend UI stuff mainly in usage.
Whole processing from MBQL -> your SQL or whatever is done via a buncha big-ass transducers. Metabase is not materially faster than other BI tools (because all the other BI tools do something vaguely similar in their langs) but it's pretty comparable speed and the whole thing was materially written by like 5 peeps
https://github.com/metabase/metabase/blob/master/src/metabas...
(nb: I used to work for Metabase but currently do not. but open core is open core)
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Upgrade your Metabase installation immediately
They backported it to v0.45x and those changes don't seem to be included: https://github.com/metabase/metabase/compare/v0.45.4...v0.45...
aka, It isn't checked in to source control publicly yet. Interesting.
I tried to "decompile" the jars and loop over the files but it didn't yield much/wasn't clean enough to be of help.
They haven't released the source, and the compiled versions are non-trivial to diff (e.g. there are nondeterministic numbers from the clojure compiler that seem to have changed from one to the other, and .clj files have been removed from the jar).
The old version has `hash=1bb88f5`, which is a public commit: https://github.com/metabase/metabase/commit/1bb88f5
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Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – open-source CRM
We are unsure about the right license to use, so this is a great feedback. We had a MIT license one week ago that we know that we cannot hold on long term and we felt we were lying to the community by keeping an MIT license and changing it in one year.
By using AGPL, we feel it's the right level of restriction. It's the license used by Metabase for example (https://github.com/metabase/metabase) that many companies use internally.
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Ask HN: Open-Source Self-Hosted No-Code Platforms?
The solution really depends on what sort of problems you are trying to solve and who your customers are.
There are a fair few low-code solutions out there for reporting and data visualisation that are great for finance and marketing teams for example. e.g. https://metabase.com/ , https://evidence.dev/
For multipurpose SMB workflows and organisational processes, I have used n8n in the recent past and found it was quite good and incredibly easy to maintain. https://n8n.io/engineering-resources/
For enterprise processes I'd go with Camunda (solely based on recommendations and not first hand experience). Although only parts of their platform are OSS https://github.com/camunda
Bear in mind that some of these are not suitable if you want to build something that competes with them while taking their OSS code. But are perfectly fine otherwise.
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916 days of Emacs
Anyway, I have a collection of scripts that merge ActivityWatch data from all my machines and WakaTime exports to a PostgreSQL database which I then query with a project called Metabase. If you're curious, the scripts are in a repository called sqrt-data. I've been playing with this for ~4-5 years already I think.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
Metabase | https://metabase.com | REMOTE | Full-time | Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, and DevOps engineers
Metabase is open source analytics software that lets anyone in your company rummage around in the databases you have. It connects to a number of databases / data warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Postgres, MySQL, etc).
Umami
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15 open-source tools to elevate your software design workflow
Link | Demo | Github | License
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One Worker to Track Them All: Injecting Analytics Scripts into Multiple Websites with Cloudflare Workers
For a while now, I've been creating mini web tools to test out ideas or as tiny helpers for myself. I usually publish them on individual subdomains, which might not be the best idea, but I like the concept of a short, easy-to-remember URL. Recently, I discovered that some of these tools actually have a few users, which made me consider adding analytics to them. After a bit of research, I settled on umami. It's a great little privacy-conscious tool with exactly what I need and nothing more.
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Using Analytics on My Website
If you already use Posthog, Web Analytics has been in Public Beta for quite some time.[1]
If I remember correctly, CloudFlare Analytics does not need you to register your domain with them. I personally feel keeping domain registration coupled with your DNS provider is not a good idea.
Plausible[2] has an Open Source self-hostable version but is not so updated in sync with their SaaS version.
Umami[3] is another simple, clean one. And, of course, as many have suggested, Matomo is the other well-established one. If you want to avoid maintaining a hosting routine, a lot do the hosting out of the box these days. PikaPods[4] was good when I tried and played around for a while.
1. https://posthog.com/docs/web-analytics
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Is there a downside to Vercel Analytics?
not enough, can confirm, I moved to Umami for ChadNext
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Building a privacy-friendly, self-hosted application architecture with SvelteKit
Analytics is something that can easily become a privacy headache. To get around the issues as much as possible, the strategy I've implemented is to self-host the analytics tool Umami (again, via the One click app functionality in CapRover!).
- Ask HN: Looking for Google Analytics alternative after v4
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LF a Service to Monitor Web Visits
It seems like you just want a self hsoted google analytics. Theres Plausible , Matomo and Umami for that.
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Lighthouse has an animation when you achieved 100%
And if you don't want to pay for plausible, then go with the free selfhosted alternative https://umami.is/
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Ask HN: What do you use to track visitors on your blog?
Umami, self-hosted, but they also have a cloud version with a free tier if you prefer that.
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Google Analytics 4 Has Me So Frustrated, We Built Our Own Analytics Service
Yep, I just setup Umami (https://umami.is/) yesterday and added it to some properties alongside GA to see how it goes. It's a very simple interface with everything I really need for web analytics so I'm enjoying it so far. I self-hosted so if it sticks around the only thing I might look at is having a replica running for it (already put a high frequency backup in place).
What are some alternatives?
Apache Superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform [Moved to: https://github.com/apache/superset]
Plausible Analytics - Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
lightdash - Open source BI for teams that move fast ⚡️
appsmith - Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Redash - Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.
Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Matomo - Empowering People Ethically with the leading open source alternative to Google Analytics that gives you full control over your data. Matomo lets you easily collect data from websites & apps and visualise this data and extract insights. Privacy is built-in. Liberating Web Analytics. Star us on Github? +1. And we love Pull Requests!
Fathom Analytics - Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.
PostHog - 🦔 PostHog provides open-source product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and A/B testing that you can self-host.