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Plausible Community Edition had an unauthenticated RCE for over a year

story by gregzeng95 · 2026-08-16 · 0 comments

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Plausible Community Edition – Security related update

story by calyhre · 2026-06-01 · 1 comment

Here's something better than that: https://github.com/plausible/analytics Elixir.

comment by neya · 2026-05-13 · in Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s

…application backed by a PostgreSQL database for general data and a Clickhouse database for stats. https://github.com/plausible/analytics

comment by mmaia · 2025-09-19 · in Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory

…such as Plausible[1]? I am always happy to see Elixir and Erlang hit the front page. [1] - https://github.com/plausible/analytics

comment by mig4ng · 2025-09-19 · in Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory

…the IP address afterwards, the law doesn’t care. Others have come to the same conclusion: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/1963

comment by miragecraft · 2025-05-08 · in RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement

…https://plausible.io/blog/legal-assessment-gdpr-eprivacy Edit: Found more discussion here: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/1963#disc... > To summarize, I believe the EDPB has made their position very clear on this in…

comment by rustc · 2025-05-07 · in RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement

…[2] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog?tab=readme-ov-file#open-s... [3] https://github.com/plausible/analytics?tab=readme-ov-file#ca... [4] https://ahrefs.com/

comment by xyst · 2025-05-07 · in RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement

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Plausible 3.0.0

story by pentagrama · 2025-04-11 · 0 comments

Would this also work with something like Plausible ( https://github.com/plausible/analytics ) which uses ClickHouse to store web analytics data, or is it primarily for log data?

comment by smjburton · 2025-02-26 · in Show HN: Telescope – an open-source web-based log viewer for logs in ClickHouse

…the implementations in member countries already differs massively on whether it's covered[4]. 1: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/1963 2: https://plausible.io/blog/legal-assessment-gdpr-eprivacy 3:…

comment by birjolaxew · 2025-02-17 · in Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics

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Sites API is not included in Plausible CE

story by okokx · 2025-02-03 · 0 comments

…Why's that allowed? [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/ee/LICENS... [1]: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/2dd2f058d1dcae6f... [2]: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/blob/main/packages/feature... [3]:…

comment by ezekg · 2024-09-10 · in Going open-source as a VC-Backed company

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"No need for cookie banners" might be incorrect

story by croemer · 2024-08-20 · 1 comment

…Edition" [3]. [1] https://www.keila.io [2] https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses [3] https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/baa99652f612f50b...

comment by pentacent_hq · 2024-05-14 · in Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do you manage your code?

…"Initial commit" - ukutaht committed - on Sep 2, 2019 - 779d64e19a26a4e4944d4f0d7d9e280a27fbc6e5 - https://github.com/plausible/analytics/commit/779d64e19a26a4...

comment by diggan · 2024-01-13 · in Creator is hoping to raise at least €1k for basic living expense

…was good when I tried and played around for a while. 1. https://posthog.com/docs/web-analytics 2. https://github.com/plausible/analytics 3. https://umami.is 4. https://www.pikapods.com

comment by Brajeshwar · 2023-12-15 · in Using analytics on my website

Better link: https://github.com/plausible/analytics

comment by mikecoles · 2023-09-11 · in Ask HN: Should I use Google Analytics ?

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Plausible: Simple, lightweight, open source alternative to Google Analytics

story by thunderbong · 2023-05-17 · 0 comments

I've been pretty happy with plausible analytics. They have a hosted solution as well. https://github.com/plausible/analytics

comment by gregors · 2023-05-17 · in Google Analytics 4 was frustrating, so we built our own analytics service

https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/149 > @ukutaht, Apr 27, 2021, Maintainer > The vision of this project is and has always been to be aggregate-only with no reporting on individual users or sessions.

comment by Dowwie · 2023-03-14 · in Lessons from building Plausible Analytics to $1.2M ARR in public

Interesting that both Plausible and CloudFlare are using ClickHouse as a backend: https://github.com/plausible/analytics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24846300 https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse

comment by zX41ZdbW · 2023-02-18 · in Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk

here are some for you to consider: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo https://github.com/plausible/analytics https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter All 3 of them open source and you can host yourself. If you don't want to self host all 3…

comment by softinio · 2023-01-15 · in Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Analytics in 2023

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Plausible Analytics

story by 1sembiyan · 2022-07-04 · 0 comments

…ironic and is frustrating to see. Edit: The DNT flag is explicitly ignored by Plausible as well: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/646

comment by pgl · 2022-06-24 · in How We built a $1M ARR open source SaaS

…and are happy to take feedback they are sustainable and make money offering a hosted service https://github.com/plausible/analytics

comment by ushakov · 2022-04-30 · in Show HN: Alternative Google Analytics Dashboard

…they matched an existing rule in EasyList or similar. I have nothing but scorn for the likes of https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/387 where site owners are saying “oh no! our tracking script has been blocked! how can we…

comment by chrismorgan · 2022-02-03 · in Show HN: I've built my own simple website analytics

…the hosted version and then release it for self-hosted as well. Next release is planned in Q2. 1: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/pull/1466

comment by ukutaht · 2022-01-19 · in Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?

…Analytics into Plausible[1] which should make switching even easier for many folks. Stay tuned. 1. https://github.com/plausible/analytics/pull/1466

comment by ukutaht · 2022-01-12 · in Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

…my very low traffic side project, mostly because it's easy to host yourself and free if you do so. https://github.com/plausible/analytics

comment by ggoo · 2022-01-12 · in Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics ( https://github.com/plausible/analytics )

comment by mtmail · 2022-01-11 · in Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

Plausible is a good candidate for lightweight analytics https://github.com/plausible/analytics

comment by realityking · 2021-12-18 · in To opt out of Google Analytics you have to install a browser extension

…release. Every six months we combine all the changes into a new self-hosted release. [1]: https://github.com/plausible/analytics#can-plausible-analyti...

comment by rustc · 2021-11-05 · in We bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR

…source code[1] is doing the tracking, exactly? [0]: https://markosaric.com/gdpr-consent/ [1]: https://github.com/plausible/analytics

comment by wizzwizz4 · 2021-05-17 · in Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics

…to seem some code where it is used I ran across it when looking at the Plausible Analytics repo: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/search?q=clickhouse They use it to store analytics data.

comment by dugmartin · 2021-05-17 · in The ClickHouse Community

…the `terminate/2` callback so you're still able to process events. Here are the relevant lines: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/b724def948d51a0f... Keep in mind you need to trap exit signal to tell the supervisor to invoke the…

comment by edisonywh · 2021-04-27 · in Elixir GenServer Explained

…by seeing if we can implement custom event tracking with `navigator.sendBeacon` instead. 1. https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/master/tracker/s...

comment by ukutaht · 2021-03-09 · in Simple A/B testing with Caddy and Plausible Analytics

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Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytic

story by rajeshrajappan · 2021-03-07 · 87 comments

Sure, our main repository comes with a production-ready Dockerfile: https://github.com/plausible/analytics We also have a separate repository with examples and code for how to host Plausible Analytics with docker-compose:…

comment by ukutaht · 2020-12-17 · in Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS

…it together with a daily changing salt. Old salts are deleted to as to prevent re-identification: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/master/lib/plaus... According to GDPR Recital 26, anonymized data does not fall within the GDPR…

comment by ukutaht · 2020-10-23 · in Plausible Analytics Isn't GDPR Compliant

…to see that change too! i've added the request to our github now so we'll see what can be done: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/issues/344

comment by markosaric · 2020-10-06 · in Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

…event / goal tracking and we have metadata for goals as the next big feature on our public roadmap: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/projects/1

comment by markosaric · 2020-10-06 · in Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

…this. It appears to be lots of deleted code. Still, good for the contributor! Here is the PR https://github.com/plausible/analytics/pull/68/files

comment by nattaylor · 2020-10-06 · in Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

…on pages, but it does not support some essential features, like proper events/goals with metadata. https://github.com/plausible/analytics/issues/134

comment by nicbou · 2020-10-06 · in Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

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Plausible/analytics – Self-hosted and privacy-first Google Analytics alternative

story by todsacerdoti · 2020-10-06 · 0 comments

…statistics for privacy reasons so the common Monthly Active Users (MAU) stat is not available. [1] https://github.com/plausible/analytics [2] https://docs.plausible.io/self-hosting-configuration [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_user…

comment by sradman · 2020-10-06 · in Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

…we plan to do it but cannot promise anything in terms of timeline for when it will be done. See https://github.com/plausible/analytics/issues/151

comment by markosaric · 2020-10-06 · in Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

thank you! our Self-Hosted version was possible thanks to several contributors on our GitHub https://github.com/plausible/analytics/issues One contributor from HN helped us reduce our script down to 0.7 KB from 1.4 KB or so earlier this…

comment by markosaric · 2020-10-06 · in Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative

…the salt is random[1] and generated on the client-side, which makes this hash much more secure. 1. https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/master/lib/plaus...

comment by Sephr · 2020-07-27 · in How to pay your rent with your open source project

Fathom and Plausible are both open source: https://github.com/usefathom/fathom https://github.com/plausible/analytics

comment by sleepyhead · 2020-06-18 · in Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics