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Ask Soylent: FOSS Equivalent to "Google Analytics"

posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 04 2015, @05:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the tell-it-like-it-is dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Hello Soylentils. I work in the IT Department of a mid sized utility company. Our engineering department requested that we use Google Analytics to track how people are hitting certain pages, from where, and whether or not they are getting to pages from links on our website or directly. A co worker found that Google Analytics can get expensive. Does anyone have any experience with any FOSS alternatives such as the ones listed in the article below?

http://opensource.com/business/14/10/top-3-open-source-alternatives-google-analytics

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @06:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @06:49PM (#218029)

    I just did this.

    I needed a system that would do an HTTP/HTTPS "health check" on a bunch of webservers. Scoured the web etc -- nagios et al were too much for my needs. I looked at some of the free cloud monitoring services and found them to be lacking, unreliable, or inane.

    I wrote a ten-line python script that basically did it myself. It checks to see that I get a 200 back from a list of webservers, and emails/texts me with problems.

    Never did find a good F/LOSS solution.

  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday August 05 2015, @12:05AM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @12:05AM (#218235) Journal

    Did you consider open sourcing your own script? Just put it in the comments here, Anonymous.

  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday August 05 2015, @03:21PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 05 2015, @03:21PM (#218581) Homepage Journal

    Don't you get it? Python is your FLOSS solution. Your so-called ten-line script is just the configuration file.