Grafana
Open-source observability and analytics dashboard platform. Reads from many data sources (Postgres, Prometheus, Loki, etc.) and renders charts and alerts. Free self-hostable; cloud SaaS tier exists.
Position
Self-hostable alternative to PostHog / Amplitude / Mixpanel when paired with manual event logging into a Postgres table. Simon Høiberg’s pattern: log events to Postgres, write SQL queries by hand (with ChatGPT writing the SQL), visualize with Grafana. “I have never had better analytics than this.”
Sources
- Simon Høiberg: Self-hostable alternatives — Postgres + Grafana as the bespoke analytics replacement