Umami
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Nov 7, 2025first mention
Sep 22, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I self host Umami. It was a one click deploy from their GitHub Readme. Been using for over a year, more than pleased.”
“I am very happy with never needing to even think about umami.”
switched from Plausibleon “Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics”
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Caveats and dissent
“a hard pivot to the 'cloud-first' was another reason why I decided not to bother with Umami anymore”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“The new and improved Umami Analytics is here! Now with MCP support so your agent can improve your site through your analytics data”
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily? 1 mention
- From MySQL to PostgreSQL: a much lighter server 1 mention
- Umami 3.4 Is Here 1 mention
- Ask HN: What do you use for privacy focused analytics? 1 mention
- Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics 1 mention
- item 48499931 1 mention
Data: umami.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“I also run Umami but on a fly.io instance”
“for my umami analytics”
“I self host Umami. It was a one click deploy from their GitHub Readme. Been using for over a year, more than pleased.”
“I am very happy with never needing to even think about umami.”
“I use Umami for analytics”
I do the same thing on my Hostinger VPS with Claude even though I have been using Linux 30 years. Just removes the friction and time. I version control the DevOps with git, and even had Claude setup automated backups to my Google Drive via cron. workdir/ ├── README.md ├── CLAUDE.md # Claude Code instructions ├── BACKUP.md # Backup documentation ├── .gitignore ├── traefik/ │ ├── docker-compose.yml │ └── config/ │ └──
“a hard pivot to the 'cloud-first' was another reason why I decided not to bother with Umami anymore”
“I also run Umami, but patched once the CVE patch was released.”
“I love umami. Tried several solutions but umami”