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What should we track?

What should we track?“Self-hosted analytics, our server. No third-party script on checkout.”Chris Dubois, The Sovereign

💡 WHY CHRIS IS RIGHT

Most analytics stacks mean a vendor's JavaScript on every page, shipping user behavior to someone else's cloud, priced per event and subject to their next pricing page. Open-source analytics on your own server keeps the data in your database, under your retention rules, queryable with plain SQL forever. It also removes a foreign script from the pages where users type card numbers, a security win nobody budgets for.

✅ RIGHT WHEN

Privacy matters to users, event volume is high, or vendor pricing keeps changing.

🚩 TOO FAR WHEN

He is now on call for an analytics cluster that only he understands.

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