Medama Analytics — Self-Hosted, Open-Source

Features

• 📊 Real-Time Analytics: Monitor website performance and user interactions instantly.
• 🔒 Privacy-Focused: Lightweight tracker (<1KB) without cookies, IP addresses, or additional identifiers, ensuring compliance with GDPR, PECR, and other regulations.
• 🧪 Easy To Integrate: OpenAPI-based server for effortless integration into personal or professional dashboards.
• 💼 Self-Hostable: Simple, single-binary setup with no external dependencies, capable of running on VMs with 256MB memory for most small websites.

How to install Medama Analytics

Most self-hosted apps including Medama Analytics install through Docker or Docker Compose. The typical workflow is: install Docker on your host, pull the official image (or clone the repository), supply a configuration file with database credentials and storage paths, then start the container. Many homelabbers run Medama Analytics alongside other self-hosted services behind a reverse proxy like Caddy, Traefik, or nginx-proxy-manager for HTTPS and routing. Check the official repository for the most current instructions.

Why self-host Medama Analytics

Self-hosting gives you three things SaaS can’t: data ownership (the files live on disks you control), cost predictability (a one-time setup vs. recurring per-seat fees that grow with your household or team), and longevity (open-source means the app keeps working even if the maintainers move on, since you can pin a working version). The trade-off is that you take on the operational work of running a server, applying updates, and handling backups.

Hardware notes

💼 Self-Hostable: Simple, single-binary setup with no external dependencies, capable of running on VMs with 256MB memory for most small websites.

Where to go from here

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