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Why don't they just use something like plausible for this? I switch to plausible for all my analytics and it works great.

https://plausible.io/

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Whilst Plausible does look great, one of their main goals, as I understand it, is to focus on simple core analytics for websites, not general-purpose do-it-all analytics for everything.

If you're not a website, and so your metrics are arbitrary events with metadata instead of page views, this tends to quickly run into awkward mess.

Self hosting an InfluxDB to capture core metrics seems like a good solution that avoids privacy concerns without being too complex imo.

It is fine for medium size applications, you do have to register all events (goals) on the website before you can use them [0]. I have written the Qt/QML plugin for plausible [1], I don't think predefining them is too bad.

[0] https://plausible.io/docs/goal-conversions

[1] https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/qml-plausible

Ah, neat, ok! I'll take another look. For now I've been testing out Posthog (https://posthog.com). They seem more focused on this use case - they let you do arbitrary queries and build graphs over all event data without having to predefine goals or anything, and they have an open-source & self-hostable version, in addition to a EU-hosted cloud option. Now that GA is so clearly dying (finally) it's an exciting space!

Thanks for sharing. I was looking for other options and this looks like a good candidate. Does you or anyone else have any other suggestions?

If you are into self-hosting: https://uxwizz.com

jitsi as in a segment alternative?

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