A Tour of Website Monitoring Tools

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  • Incoming

    Incoming! helps you receive email in your Rack apps.

  • Honeybadger, it also bundles additional features such as uptime monitoring which can come quite handy if you're looking for this combo.

  • Fathom Analytics

    Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.

  • Fathom, a well-known alternative with a focus on simplicity and privacy.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • Sentry

    Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

  • Sentry, well known for its open source offering and my current tool of choice for error tracking. It's more than just error tracking, since it also includes things like performance monitoring and distributed tracing.

  • terraform-provider-rollbar

    Terraform provider for Rollbar

  • Rollbar, another great alternative which is quite popular with enterprise companies.

  • Plausible Analytics

    Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

  • Plausible, another open source alternative, but focused on privacy. Their cloud offering is affordable and based in the EU.

  • Mixpanel

    Official iOS (Objective-C) Tracking Library for Mixpanel Analytics

  • Mixpanel, a very popular tool focused on event and conversion tracking. Something interesting is that they have an EU Data Residency program, which lets you pick whether to store the data in the US or Europe to simplify compliance.

  • 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!

  • Matomo, a popular open source alternative to Google Analytics. You can either self-host or let them manage a cloud instance for you.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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