Umami
Hacker ApprovedRanked 3 of 6 product analytics platforms by recommenders
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.
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.
22 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 17
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 77%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 17 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Full control when self-hosted
“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.”
Comment from 13 May 2026 in “I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe” “It's simple, fast, and I have full control over it.”
Comment from 29 Apr 2026 in “Ask HN: What product analytics are you using?” Low maintenance, no performance issues
“I am very happy with never needing to even think about umami.”
Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics” “have had no performance issues of any kind”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe” Privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics
“Missing mobile SDKs, but otherwise the nicest dashboards there are and very private. Super clean, but a bit expensive.”
Comment from 28 May 2026 in “PostHog training on end-users; Indie Alternatives?” “It has all the features you're looking for without GA.”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “Ask HN: What do you use for privacy focused analytics?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Heavy RAM and resource use
“massive resource hog for what it purports to do”
Comment from 13 May 2026 in “I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe” “Things like plausible or umami (analytics) require at least 2 gigs of ram”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “Vite 8.0 Is Out” React and Next.js security vulnerabilities
“Umami with its NexJS and React CVE vulnerability was the issue”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero” “Umami got rooted twice this month because of holes in React”
Comment from 27 Dec 2025 in “Migrating my web analytics from Matomo to Umami”
Other product analytics platforms people recommend
The four most recommended other product analytics platforms, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PostHog | 44 | 84 | 34% | 11 | — | — |
| Plausible | 18 | 7 | 72% | 9 | — | Approved |
| UmamiThis page | 17 | 5 | 77% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Google Analytics | 14 | 44 | 24% | 7 | — | — |
| Matomo | 8 | 6 | 57% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
17 of the 23 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the free Umami tier is quite generous to pass up on”
“It has all the features you're looking for without GA.”
“I like that you can add it to caddy server-side easily too”
“I am very happy with never needing to even think about umami.”
“Thank you for the awesome project.”
“Umami is awesome, I remember having one timezone based issue that was resolved the next week.”
“Missing mobile SDKs, but otherwise the nicest dashboards there are and very private. Super clean, but a bit expensive.”
“have had no performance issues of any kind”
“massive resource hog for what it purports to do”
“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.”
“It's simple, fast, and I have full control over it.”
“Things like plausible or umami (analytics) require at least 2 gigs of ram”
“Umami got rooted twice this month because of holes in React”
“a hard pivot to the 'cloud-first' was another reason why I decided not to bother with Umami anymore”
“Umami with its NexJS and React CVE vulnerability was the issue”
“Umami patched it very quickly.”
“Added segments: filters to reuse”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.