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 Rails Performance
Active Analytics and Rails Performance 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.
Rails Performance
Better knownA self-hosted performance dashboard for requests, jobs and queries
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "rails_performance"
# config/routes.rb
mount RailsPerformance::Engine, at: "/rails/performance"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 Rails Performance does
Request and job performance data, collected into Redis and shown in a mounted dashboard. Per-endpoint response time and throughput Slow request breakdown by database, view and other Background job durations Recent requests with their traces Requires Redis for storage.
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Why you might pick it
- It also replaces Sentry and Datadog.
- It has substantially more adoption — 1,300 stars against 514.
Side by side
Rows where the two differ are marked.
| Active Analytics | Rails Performance | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Analytics | Analytics |
| Replaces (differs) | Google Analytics, Matomo, Plausible | Datadog, Sentry |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 514 | 1300 |
| Gem (differs) | active_analytics | rails_performance |
| Mounts at (differs) | /analytics | /rails/performance |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Both replace
Nothing unique here.
Only Active Analytics
Questions
- What is the difference between Active Analytics and Rails Performance?
- Active Analytics and Rails Performance both sit in analytics, but they solve different parts of it.
- Can I mount both Active Analytics and Rails Performance 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.