Awesome work!

After I announced the blog post, I learned about Plausible.io, which is an open source analytics focused on privacy that is written in Elixir. We are using them since then and we are very happy with it, so I definitely recommend them.

So between analytics_ex and plausible, it seems we are well served in the analytics area.

I added a LiveDashboard-page to AnalyticsEx which gives you a quick overview of the counted requests per day, week, and month.

Simply update AnalyticsEx to 0.2.1 and include this in the live_dashboard route in your router.ex.

live_dashboard "/dashboard",
      additional_pages: [
        {:analytics, AnalyticsEx.LiveDashboard.AnalyticsPage}
      ]

You will then have a Tab called Analytics in your LiveDashboard!

If you want to always ignore certain routes in the overview, add them to the live_dashboard-route:

live_dashboard "/dashboard",
      additional_pages: [
        {:analytics, {AnalyticsEx.LiveDashboard.AnalyticsPage, ignore: ["/this-route", "/and-this-route-including-subpaths"]}
      ]

It’s been a bit tricky to add this tab to LiveDashboard using the predefined components, mostly because LiveDashboard was not yet refactored enough in order support adding custom pages with ease. I will create a GitHub ticket for the issues I had with adding this page, but in general, it only took me 1 day to include this page and that is without having any examples! So, it certainly is possible

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I just released a small addition, which is bump_with_uri/1. You can now bump the metrics whenever you have a URI like in the handle_params/3 function of your LiveView. Simply call:

def handle_params(params, uri, socket) do
  AnalyticsEx.Metrics.bump_with_uri(uri)

  # Do other stuff here
end

If you really want to be sure that the metric was bumped, you can check the return value of bump_with_uri/1, which is either :ok or {:error, :path_not_found}, if URI.parse/1 doesn’t return a value for path.

If you want to use this functionality, simply update AnalyticsEx to 0.1.1.

@gordoneliel I hope this solves your problem as well. Sorry, I didn’t see your message until now.

thanks! I pay for Plausible, but you can also self-host it. Otherwise, here’s a promising new library that could satisfy you needs too: GitHub - lalabuy948/PhoenixAnalytics: 📊 Plug and play analytics for Phoenix applications.

yeah, several rabbit holes later, I was unable to deploy this to fly.io. here’s my issue.