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24 alternatives to Trench

Open source analytics infrastructure

Trench is an open source analytics infrastructure built on ClickHouse and Kafka that handles event tracking at scale. It's designed for developers who need to collect and analyze large volumes of event data quickly.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Trench launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey HN! I want to share a new open source project I've been working on called Trench (https://trench.dev). It's open source analytics infrastructure for tracking events, page views, and identifying users, and it's built on top of ClickHouse and Kafka. https://github.com/frigadehq/trench I built Trench because the Postgres table we used for tracking events at our startup (http://frigade.com/) was getting expensive and becoming a performance bottleneck as we scaled to millions of end users. Many companies run into the same problem as us (e.g.…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Glazed▲867

    Turn Figma files into production-ready tracking in minutes

    2024 · glazedanalytics.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs - uptrace/uptrace

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted analytics with session replays, heatmaps & more.

    2020 · 66analytics.com · its alternatives →

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    Get in-product analytics quickly without waiting for sprints

    2025 · metabase.com · its alternatives →

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    PostHog▲458

    An all-in-one product analytics suite you can self-host

    2021 · posthog.com · its alternatives →

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    Paradime▲216

    The operating system for analytics

    2022 · paradime.io · its alternatives →

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    Me with my friend Vitaly Ludvichenko made an experiment to combine ClickHouse server and client to make a self-contained program running a database engine and processing data without a server: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/150 Development continued in the past 6 years, and now clickhouse-local becomes a swiss-army knife for data processing. Say "ffmpeg" for datasets and more. It can resemble textql, octosql, dsq, duckdb, trdsql, q, datafusion-cli, spyql, but has better capabilities and performance. Here is a tutorial:…

    2023 · clickhouse.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source DORA metrics for software engineering teams

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Instant analytics for any stream of work

    2023 · linear.app · its alternatives →

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    Analyze web apps & sites, collect modern performance metrics

    2021 · developer.chrome.com · its alternatives →

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    Open Analytics is a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative: realtime visitors, funnels and revenue attribution from one lightweight, cookieless script. GDPR-friendly with no consent banner. Open source and self-hostable.

    Aug 2026 · getopen.so · its alternatives →

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    Monitor K8s applications effortlessly, at scale

    2022 · groundcover.com · its alternatives →

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    Analytics, sans dashboard.

    2017 · academicconsultant.co · its alternatives →

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    Hey hn! I'm one of the co-founders of highlight.io, an open source monitoring tool. Today we're sharing a ClickHouse-based logging solution we've been working on. We wanted to showcase how we built it and share how you could try it out to give feedback. Since we started working on highlight.io, we've been hyper-focused on "cohesion", or ensuring that when you install your monitoring stack, all of the resources in that stack (user interactions, requests, traces, logs, etc.) are connected in a consumable way. We've written up more about our philosophy on this here [1]. We started building…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Every data pipeline job I had to tackle required quite a few components to set up: - One tool to ingest data - Another one to transform it - If you wanted to run Python, set up an orchestrator - If you need to check the data, a data quality tool Let alone this being hard to set up and taking time, it is also pretty high-maintenance. I had to do a lot of infra work, and while this being billable hours for me I didn’t enjoy the work at all. For some parts of it, there were nice solutions like dbt, but in the end for an end-to-end workflow, it didn’t work. That’s why I decided to build an…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple, real-time, fun & lightweight web analytics solution

    2023 · datapulse.app · its alternatives →

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    Funnel.io▲102

    Automatic upload of cost data to Google Analytics

    2016 · funnel.io · its alternatives →

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    Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management. Contribute to provectus/kafka-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source cloud-environment inspector. Supporting AWS, GCP, Azure, and more! Your cloud resources will have nowhere to hide! - mlabouardy/komiser

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tools to connect data and the people who analyze it.

    2014 · app.mode.com · its alternatives →

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    TrackMCP▲105

    Google Analytics for MCP Servers

    Sep 2026 · trackmcp.com · its alternatives →

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    Hosted server side tagging auto configured in <15 minutes

    2024 · metricsgate.com · its alternatives →

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