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Bit OT but I see slackshare use keen.io (custom analytics). Has anyone else played with it and if so do you have any thoughts to offer?

I've been looking around for a custom analytics platform that I can pump a load of events into and interrogate later however I want. Of all the ones I've looked at, keen.io looks the most interesting from a developer flexibility stand point, but that's just from the outside. If anyone has experience I'd love to hear it.

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Full disclosure: Keen is a promoted service on StackShare, StackShare is a customer of Keen.

We use Keen IO for all our user metrics. Specifically their CommonWeb library https://github.com/keen/common-web, which automatically tracks clicks, pageviews, form submits and a few other actions. Keen has been great for us, particularly because we don't yet know exactly what we want to track, it's constantly changing. So having one place that houses all our events then being able to query that as we see fit and build dashboards (http://keen.github.io/dashboards/) has been really helpful. You can see some more feedback from other people here: http://stackshare.io/keen-io.

Thank you, I appreciate the info. The model that they use feels like exactly the sort of thing I'm after - and the fact that there are layers to go on top (like this common web thing) is testament to the general flexibility. Will definitely be giving it a try.

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