Monitor web traffic

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Privacy-friendly web analytics in Garcon

Pirsch

https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch

On server-side, Pirsch concatenates IP, User-Agent, date, then salt, hash and store it using ClickHouse. No cookies. The stored data is analyzed to extract web traffic info: unique visitors, sessions, bounces, views, average session duration, languages, operating system and browser, referrers, countries…

The metrics may be sent to Prom or Loki and Grafana…

GoatCounter

https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter

Active community-driven project. ❤️

ZerØ Analytics

https://github.com/ncarlier/za

Sends metrics to Loki to Grafana.

Fathom Lite

https://github.com/usefathom/fathom

The project is unmaintained but there are forks with random fixes. The community needs to rally around a fork.

https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/network

Repo	Stars	Forks	Ahead	Behind	Last Push
https://github.com/JokerQyou/fathom	2	0	41	0	2020-06-03
https://github.com/samuelmeuli/fathom	2	1	22	0	2020-05-31
https://github.com/bjkippax/fathom-lite-gdprcompliant	0	0	3	0	2022-02-03
https://github.com/status-im/fathom	0	0	2	0	2021-07-21
https://github.com/mauriciodulce/fathom	0	0	1	0	2020-05-23
https://github.com/flopp/fathom	0	0	1	0	2020-08-28
https://github.com/javascript-indonesias/fathom	0	0	16	0	2020-02-15
https://github.com/aarroyoc/fathom	0	0	1	0	2020-11-22
https://github.com/emarsden/fathom	0	0	1	0	2020-02-16
https://github.com/KerstinMaur/fathom	0	0	1	0	2021-10-03
https://github.com/kasuboski/fathom	0	0	6	0	2020-08-18
https://github.com/featherbear/fathom	0	0	4	0	2021-06-12
https://github.com/MikeLindenau/fathom	0	0	1	0	2020-05-06
https://github.com/dworznik/fathom	0	0	2	0	2021-04-11

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Plausible Analytics (Elixir)

Self-hosted with ClickHouse
https://github.com/plausible/analytics

Shynet (Python)

https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

Offen

https://github.com/offen/offen

Matomo and OWA

Matomo and OWA require JavaScript tracking on the browser side. I do not like it.

Prometheus

The Caddy doc provides some Prometheus queries. Garcon should use the same metrics naming as Caddy.

The Prometheus client provides monitoring functions: pkg.go.dev

An example: GitHub

Garcon should use them!