Plausible Analytics is a simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.
They offer a free Plausible Analytics Self-Hosted, that it’s exactly the same code as their Cloud solution, but you have to install on your server.
As a fan of Caprover, that I use everyday to manage my web applications, and after looking at the official Caprover repository for one-click apps, I found that Plausible was missing, so I decided to write the template.
On their offical repository there is a docker-compose.yml file that I used as starting point to transform in a one-click Caprover app, but the GeoLite2 database created by MaxMind for enriching analytics data with visitor countries was not present.
So, looking at the self hosted guides available in their documentation, I came up with a plausible.yml template:
captainVersion: 4
services:
$$cap_appname-mail:
image: bytemark/smtp
restart: always
environment:
RELAY_HOST: $$cap_RELAY_HOST
RELAY_PORT: $$cap_RELAY_PORT
RELAY_USERNAME: $$cap_RELAY_USERNAME
RELAY_PASSWORD: $$cap_RELAY_PASSWORD
caproverExtra:
notExposeAsWebApp: "true"
$$cap_appname-postgres:
image: postgres:12-alpine
volumes:
- $$cap_appname-postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: plausible
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: $$cap_POSTGRES_PASSWORD
caproverExtra:
notExposeAsWebApp: "true"
$$cap_appname-clickhouse:
image: yandex/clickhouse-server:20.8.5.45
volumes:
- $$cap_appname-clickhouse-data:/var/lib/clickhouse
caproverExtra:
notExposeAsWebApp: "true"
$$cap_appname:
depends_on:
- $$cap_appname-postgres
- $$cap_appname-clickhouse
- $$cap_appname-mail
environment:
ADMIN_USER_EMAIL: $$cap_ADMIN_USER_EMAIL
ADMIN_USER_NAME: $$cap_ADMIN_USER_NAME
ADMIN_USER_PWD: $$cap_ADMIN_USER_PWD
BASE_URL: http://$$cap_appname.$$cap_root_domain
DATABASE_URL: postgres://plausible:$$cap_POSTGRES_PASSWORD@srv-captain--$$cap_appname-postgres:5432/plausible
SECRET_KEY_BASE: $$cap_gen_random_hex(64)
SIGNING_SALT: $$cap_gen_random_hex(24)
DISABLE_REGISTRATION: "true"
DISABLE_SUBSCRIPTION: "true"
caproverExtra:
containerHttpPort: "8000"Simply copy and paste this template in Caprover, and you'll have a Plausible.io self hosted analytics application up and running!
Then follow their guide to add your first website, and copy the automatically generated snippet in the <head> tag of your website.
EDIT: as if today, 31/10/2020, the Plausible template is already available in the official repository. Simply search for the app inside Caprover installation:
Select an app name - can be plausible 😀 - and deploy!
