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Tooling options

List of privacy-friendly analytics tools

A list of tools under consideration can be found

here⁠

There are a few key considerations that needs to be investigated:

Self-hosting vs. Cloud-hosting

Self-hosting

Benefits

No monthly SaaS-cost

No limitations in terms of number of users, data retention periods, number of websites being monitored etc. associated with a specific hosting plan.

Full control over data retention, encryption, backups etc.

Might be able to utilise pre-existing infra, such as Container App Environments, database servers, Azure security, SSO solutions etc etc

Direct database access guarantees we can build our own integrations if sufficient API support is lacking

Open source

Negatives

Can be complex to setup and maintain, update etc

Considering that the tools we’re looking at have fairly cheap cloud pricing, this is most likely more expensive. This of course depends on how much of our current infra can be utilised for the hosting

More effort to evaluate the tools because of setup process

Liability: The data resides with us and we need to make sure it’s safe.

Backup processes, access control

Need to be on top of legal regulations - both current and future

Limited support when using OSS

Cloud-hosting

Benefits

Easy to quickly evaluate and compare the different tools

Hosting plans seems cheap for our traffic volumes

Low maintenance

Negatives

As per-usual, all plans come with different limitations such as number of users in the tool, data retention period, traffic volume, available features. We might end up on a more expensive plan than necessary in the end to cater for some feature we want.

Might be legal implications around where the data is stored

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