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Monitoring and analytics
What HN commenters recommend, ranked by distinct recommenders. Under each: what people praise most and the most common caveat, or the strongest quote where there is no summary yet.
- 1.Loved for Self-hosted stack, Data source flexibility · Caveat Multiple query languages
- 2.Loved for Grafana stack, Self-hosted monitoring · Caveat Horizontal scaling
- 3.Loved for Backend flexibility, Low-maintenance setup · Caveat Prescriptive SDKs
- 4.Loved for OpenTelemetry native, Programmatic API · Caveat Weak alerting
- 5.Loved for Usage metrics, Transcript browsing · Caveat Agent filtering
- 6.Loved for Multi-provider support, Real-time tracking
- 7.Loved for Self-hostable, Reliable · Caveat Resource usage
- 8.Loved for Terminal workflow fit, Liked interface · Caveat Memory leak
- 9.Loved for Google Analytics alternative, AI analysis · Caveat Confusing navigation
- 10.Langfuse ended up being the observability tool I went with instead over the one I built
- 11.Stats, which I use for fan control and monitoring power consumption.
- 12.I self host Umami. It was a one click deploy from their GitHub Readme. Been using for over a year, more than pleased.
- 13.Genuinely one of my favorite pieces of infra software.
- 14.Sitespy is legit one of the most underrated web dev tools I’ve found lately!
- 15.Credit goes to agentic coding tools for making it a reality.
- 16.Matomo, self-hosted, loading data from webserver logs. No cookies or privacy notices needed.
- 17.we use Grafana + Loki + ClickHouse and it's been mostly maintenance-free for years. Costs under $100/month.