Replace Matomo
A full analytics suite you can host yourself — still a separate application with its own database.
Why teams move off Matomo
Matomo can be self-hosted, which solves the privacy question and not the operational one: it is a separate application with its own database and its own upgrades.
What you give up
Depth of reporting. Matomo has years of features no mounted engine matches.
This directory says so when an engine only covers part of the job. A replacement that needs a caveat is still worth knowing about — it just should not surprise you in week three.
1 Rails engine that replaces Matomo
Questions
- Is there an open-source alternative to Matomo for Rails?
- Yes — Active Analytics. It mounts into an application you already run, so there is no second deployment and no second database.
- What do I give up by replacing Matomo?
- Depth of reporting. Matomo has years of features no mounted engine matches.
- How do I replace Matomo in a Rails app?
- Add active_analytics to your Gemfile, mount it in config/routes.rb at /analytics, and run its migrations. The whole integration is two lines and a migration.
- How much does replacing Matomo save?
- Matomo is priced cloud from $26/mo. The engines here are open source, so the cost becomes the time to mount one and the resources it uses inside your existing application.
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