PostHog vs Matomo : Which analytics tool should you use?

[@nuvotion-live]

Thanks for the video! I find it interesting that the Posthog docs claim a docker compose instance could scale to 100k events per month, which isn’t a ton. The free cloud instance goes up to 1M. And they sunsetted the kubernetes support. So unless you plan to spend 10s of thousands on dedicated engineering seems like you’ll wind up with the cloud. I’m not sure if Matomo is friendlier, I have a very modest number of users and when I self hosted Matomo on a 4c, generating the report pegged the CPU to 100% and basically crashed the server. Everything hung up. I paid for Matomo cloud but I was really unimpressed. I’m switching to PostHog cloud because I need more product analytics than web. Posthog also seems much more developer focused.

[@puneetmakhija9849]

Hi, which tool should I choose as an open source and cost effective ? My requirement is that I want to capture custom events like add to cart, checkout, purchase, etc. and a CRUD api is required to change, create, and update these custom events fields like we want to capture new fields in add-to-cart event so we will update the event fields accordingly In built session management until last event occur > 30 then create new session id Visitor id, web sdk, mobile sdk, etc. And plugin available to push the tracking data to kafka in real time

[@puneetmakhija9849]

Reply please

[@Restackio]

Hi Puneet, I am not sure if PostHog would cover all your requirements but I think much more likely than Matomo. posthog.com/docs/getting-started/send-events , posthog.com/docs/data/sessions. Still Matomo comes with more classic E-Commerce tracking as you are maybe used to from Google Analytics. In PostHog you have to build it yourself with custom events as mentioned by you. Here some insights on how to also handle conversion values, what will be key for E-Commerce posthog.com/tutorials/revenue#visualizing-your-revenue-over-time

[@waldtsemetzis4213]

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