Ask HN: Not-SaaS analytics

If you're looking for Google Analytics-style "high level website stuff" (visitors, pageviews, per-page, yadda yadda): http://haveamint.com/

If you're looking for MixPanel/KissMetrics style arbitrary event tracking, I do not have a good recommendation for you for an OSS or off-the-shelf solution. I'd be interest in hearing others' experiences.

A lot of consulting clients end up rolling their own. You can get pretty far with Postgres or Redis and hourly/daily cron jobs which dump their output to a few admin screens. They're several orders of magnitude more expensive than the SaaS alternatives (+), marketing can't use them w/o engineering helping out to set them up, and they're generally going to produce less pretty output, but they're often perfectly adequate for decisionmaking.

(+ I struggle to think of a consulting client which does metrics in-house that does not have six figures or more of implicit engineering cost in their metrics systems.)

Have you looked at Piwik ?

Its open source, fairly well established and can be self hosted.

A list of its main features can be seen here : http://piwik.org/features/list/ .

I've read a previous thread a few months ago asking for advices on analytics for a startup, you can find it here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4707903

In it you can find multiple open source solutions such as Piwik (see sheff comment), snowplow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) and Graphite (http://graphite.wikidot.com/start).

Hope this helps.