# Umami

17 Hacker News commenters recommended Umami and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Privacy-respecting web analytics with clean dashboards, easy self-hosting, and no performance issues for many users. Critics point to heavy resource use and past React/Next.js security holes.

## Why people recommend it

- Full control when self-hosted (2 comments): "Umami isn't half bad self hosted. Been using it with Docker Compose for a few years now on a LEB and it's working great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120949)) "It's simple, fast, and I have full control over it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944587))
- Low maintenance, no performance issues (2 comments): "I am very happy with never needing to even think about umami." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968828)) "have had no performance issues of any kind" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135687))
- Privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics (2 comments): "Missing mobile SDKs, but otherwise the nicest dashboards there are and very private. Super clean, but a bit expensive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313451)) "It has all the features you're looking for without GA." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105320))

## What people warn about

- Heavy RAM and resource use (2 comments): "massive resource hog for what it purports to do" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123809)) "Things like plausible or umami (analytics) require at least 2 gigs of ram" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364964))
- React and Next.js security vulnerabilities (2 comments): "Umami with its NexJS and React CVE vulnerability was the issue" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317959)) "Umami got rooted twice this month because of holes in React" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398742))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [PostHog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/posthog.md): 44 recommend
- [Mixpanel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mixpanel.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Umami", https://hackerapproved.com/p/umami/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).