Post by Michelle Sebek

Marketing Leader | Built $35M ARR from Zero | OSS • Cloud-Native • Developer Platforms • Enterprise GTM | Customer-first Marketer, People-first Leader

Your access logs already know more about your traffic than most analytics tools do. The trick is making them queryable. Great write-up from ayedo on turning structured NGINX logs into privacy-friendly website analytics — no third-party trackers, no cookie banners, no data leaving your stack. Just JSON logs, VictoriaLogs doing the heavy lifting on storage and query, and Grafana on top. If you've been looking for an analytics setup that's GDPR-friendly and doesn't bog down at scale, this is worth a read. 👇

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