Plausible Analytics is a simple, open-source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. Plausible is trusted by 10,000+ paying subscribers to deliver their website and business insights.
This template makes it trivial to deploy an instance of Plausible Analytics with all of it's required services on Railway.
See the Plausible Analytics docsite for a more in-depth explanation of its feature set.
- Click the "Deploy on Railway" button above, or click here
- Follow the setup steps in Railway
- Monitor your services as they come up
- If the Plausible Analytics service is provisioned before the ClickHouse service, you have to re-set the environment variables that reference the ClickHouse service.
- Once the ClickHouse service is up, navigate to the Plausible Analytics service, and select the "Variables" tab.
- Find and click the "edit" button on the
CLICKHOUSE_DATABASE_URLenvironment variable. - Re-save the variable without changing the contents.
- This should trigger a redeploy with the proper environment variables.
- If the Plausible Analytics service is provisioned before the ClickHouse service, you have to re-set the environment variables that reference the ClickHouse service.
- Setup your websites with Plausible analytics
- Navigate to the domain for your Plausible Analytics service.
- Follow the prompts to create an account on the service
- Follow the prompts to set up tracking on your website.
- For more information on how to use Plausible, check their site.
If you'd like to customize your instance of Plausible Analytics, I would recommend reviewing the documentation for both ClickHouse DB, and Plausible Analytics. Here are some links to get you started:
- Plausible welcome guide: https://plausible.io/docs/
- Plausible self-hosting docs: https://plausible.io/docs/self-hosting-configuration
- ClickHouse docker docs: https://hub.docker.com/r/clickhouse/clickhouse-server/
If you experience any issues or have any feedback at all, you can create a GitHub issue here
- When the Plausible Analytics service is provisioned before the ClickHouse service, you have to re-set the environment variables that reference the ClickHouse service.
- Once the ClickHouse service is up, navigate to the Plausible Analytics service, and select the "Variables" tab.
- Find and click the "edit" button on the
CLICKHOUSE_DATABASE_URLenvironment variable. - Re-save the variable without changing the contents.
- This should trigger a redeploy with the proper environment variables.