A fast and lightweight server-side Web analytics solution
Ballcone
Ballcone is a fast and lightweight server-side Web analytics solution. It requires no JavaScript on your website.
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Design Goals
- Simplicity. Ballcone requires almost zero set-up as it prefers convention over configuration
- Efficiency. Ballcone performs lightning-fast analytic queries over data thanks to the underlying columnar database
- Specificity. Ballcone aims at providing visual insights on the HTTP access logs with no bloat
Features
- No JavaScript snippets required
- GeoIP mapping with the GeoLite2 database
- Extraction of platform and browser information from User-Agent
Architecture
Ballcone captures the access_log entries exported in JSON by nginx via the bundled syslog logger (65140/udp). These entries are stored in the embedded MonetDBLite database. Ballcone uses it to perform data manipulation and analytic queries.