Hosting Plausible Analytics on Kubernetes

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 19:21:00 -0100

In this blog post I’ll take you through how I set up the web analytics software Plausible on my own Kubernetes cluster. Whilst Plausible do publish guidance on how to do this, I found that it needed a few tweaks and I wanted to make a few enhancements to get it working reliably enough for my needs.

If you haven’t heard of Plausible, I’ll keep it brief. It’s a lightweight more privacy-conscious version of Google Analytics. I personally use it on the handful of non-profit websites I host outside of my work (including this one!) and think it’s great. It does not have all the bells and whistles of GA but what it does have is:

Analytics on alexos.dev

Hosting Plausible Analytics on Kubernetes

A Brief Sidebar: What is Plausible?