Ask HN: With open source software, how do I find out where my users come from?

• netgraph

  5 645 6.1 Python

  Publication-quality network visualisations in python

However, last weekend, there was a huge spike in downloads: instead of the 0-5 downloads that are typical for a normal weekend day, there were 2000 downloads, both on Saturday and Sunday [2]. I would love to know what happened here, or at least, I would like to be able to find out the next time something like this happens. Obviously, unlike a normal business, I don't control the distribution, so I can't measure the traffic with Google Analytics or similar tools.

I would love to hear how other people that have open source projects are getting their intel into their user base.

[1] https://github.com/paulbrodersen/netgraph

[2] https://pepy.tech/project/netgraph

• InfluxDB

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  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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