Analytics & Monitoring

Web analytics tools answer the question of what happens on your website: where visitors come from and at which point they leave again. Monitoring answers the other half, namely whether your site and services are reachable at all. This category collects both, from Google Analytics alternatives without a cookie banner, through BI dashboards, to uptime monitoring that alerts you before the first customer notices an outage.

A striking number of tools here are open source and can be self-hosted. Your visitor data then stays on your own server instead of with a US provider, which simplifies the GDPR assessment considerably. The guide below the tools explains where the lines run between web analytics, business intelligence and uptime monitoring, and what to look for when choosing.