Out of principle I refuse to put any type of analytics on my sites. I don’t want to send user data to third parties and I don’t want to rely on data that comes from JavaScript on the browser unless strictly necessary.

But the thought recently occurred to me that I could use my server logs to create some basic data visualisation on Grafana.

I’d like very basic stuff:

  • hits
  • common referrers
  • geo location by IP address
  • bounce rates per page

What would be the recommended way to get this, assuming that I have traefik logs aggregates via Loki and Grafana installed?

  • dbx12
    3·
    9 months ago

    I think you could also use awstats, which runs on the log files produced by your web server.