First-party traffic analytics with no cookies, no JavaScript and no third party
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "active_analytics"
# config/routes.rb
mount ActiveAnalytics::Engine, at: "/analytics"Active Analytics vs Blazer
Active Analytics and Blazer both sit in analytics, but they solve different parts of it.
Thin comparison — they do not replace the same product. Kept readable, left out of search.
Blazer
Better knownSQL queries, charts and dashboards for your team, mounted in your app
5.0 · 1 rating# Gemfile
gem "blazer"
# config/routes.rb
mount Blazer::Engine, at: "/blazer"What Active Analytics does
Traffic analytics recorded server-side, in your own database, with a dashboard you mount. Page views, entry and exit pages Traffic sources: which domains and pages send you people A dashboard engine, mounted wherever you like No cookies, no JavaScript, no consent banner Because it records on the server, ad blockers and tracking-protection extensions cannot remove your numbers. Because it sets no cookies and collects no personal data, there is no consent banner to show. Those two facts together usually make the traffic figures more accurate than the hosted product they…
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Why you might pick it
- It also replaces Google Analytics, Plausible, and Matomo.
What Blazer does
Blazer is a business intelligence tool that mounts into your Rails app. Your team writes SQL, saves it, charts it, and puts it on a dashboard. Saved queries with variables Automatic charting from the shape of the result set Dashboards composed of saved queries Checks that email when a query starts returning rows An audit trail of who ran what A hosted BI tool needs a database user, a network path in, and a per-seat subscription. Blazer needs a route.
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Why you might pick it
- It also replaces Airtable and Metabase Cloud.
- It has substantially more adoption — 4,400 stars against 514.
- Members here rate it higher, at 5.0 against 0.0.
Side by side
Rows where the two differ are marked.
| Active Analytics | Blazer | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Analytics | Analytics |
| Replaces (differs) | Google Analytics, Matomo, Plausible | Airtable, Metabase Cloud |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 514 | 4400 |
| Gem (differs) | active_analytics | blazer |
| Mounts at (differs) | /analytics | /blazer |
| Member rating (differs) | — | 5.0 |
What each one gets off your invoice
Both replace
Nothing unique here.
Only Active Analytics
Only Blazer
Questions
- What is the difference between Active Analytics and Blazer?
- Active Analytics and Blazer both sit in analytics, but they solve different parts of it.
- Can I mount both Active Analytics and Blazer in the same Rails app?
- Technically yes — engines mount at different paths — but they overlap, so running both usually means two sets of tables doing one job. Pick one.