This is the seventh part of a seven-part-series explaining how to build an Enterprise Grade OpenSource Web Analytics System. In this post we are building an Analytics Dashboard in Kibana for our data in Elasticsearch. In the previous post we build the connection from Kafka to Elasticsearch and Clickhouse to store the data. If you are new to this series it might help to start with the first post. We have come a long way in this series. We built everything from the client implementation with Snowplow to the processing and enrichment pipelines with Kafka and Python and stored all the data in Elasticsearch. Now it is time to make that data accessible in an appealing way to analysts and business users. The obvious solution for Elasticsearch is Kibana, which is developed by the same company and is designed to work perfectly with Elasticsearch! Webanalytics Dashboard in Kibana In Kibana, […]
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Building your own Web Analytics from Log Files – Part 3: Setting up Nginx with OpenResty
This is the third part of the six-part-series “Building your own Web Analytics from Log Files”. Legal Disclaimer: This post describes how to identify and track the users on your website using cookies and browser fingerprinting. The information and process described here may be subject to data privacy regulations under your legislation. It is your responsibility to comply with all regulations. Please educate yourself if things like GDPR apply to your use case (which is very likely), and act responsibly. Identifying Users and Sessions One of our goals for this project is to be able to tell how many people are using our site. This means we need a way to differentiate between the users on our site. One approach would be to look at the IP addresses of our users. This is not very precise since all devices with the same internet connection share an IP address. Especially for […]