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Plausible vs Sloggo
Privacy-focused web analytics, not a syslog collector
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Which to pick
Pick Plausible if you want…
- Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- Web traffic analytics
- Integrations with Data Studio Connector or NPM package (on Plausible's list, not Sloggo's)
Pick Sloggo if you want…
- Minimal self-hosted syslog collector
- A free, open-source tool
- Integrations with Docker, Podman or DuckDB (on Sloggo's list, not Plausible's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Plausible:Plausible is a lightweight, privacy-first web analytics service that provides simple, real-time insights without cookies.
- Sloggo:Sloggo is a lightweight RFC 5424 syslog collector and viewer built on DuckDB that runs as a single process.
- Best for
- Plausible:Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- Sloggo:Minimal self-hosted syslog collector
- Who it’s for
- Plausible:Website owners, marketers and developers who need easy, GDPR-compliant analytics.
- Sloggo:Developers and ops needing simple, low-resource log collection for small-to-medium setups.
- Pricing
- Plausible:Freemium
- Sloggo:Open source
- Open source
- Plausible:Yes, 29,274 GitHub stars
- Sloggo:Yes, 463 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Plausible:Data Studio Connector, NPM package
- Sloggo:Docker, Podman, DuckDB
Plausible features
- Automatic scroll depth tracking. Tracks scroll depth from 1-100% on every page without any setup.
- AI traffic analytics. Identifies visits from AI assistants like ChatGPT and measures their conversions.
- SEO performance dashboard. Integrates Search Console data to show queries and organic traffic in the dashboard.
- Real-time dashboard. Updates traffic metrics every 30 seconds without needing a page refresh.
- Codeless goals & revenue tracking. Turns any page, download or link click into a goal and tracks revenue automatically.
- Built-in bot filtering. Excludes bots, referrer spam and data-center traffic out of the box.
Sloggo features
- RFC 5424 ingestion. Collects syslog over TCP and UDP using the RFC 5424 protocol.
- Fast search & filtering. Provides real-time search, filtering and tailing of collected logs.
- High ingestion rate. Handles up to 1 million logs per second.
- Single-process design. Runs in one lightweight process under 10 MiB compressed size.
- Web UI. Clean modern interface built with data-table-filters for log exploration.
- Env-var configuration. All settings adjustable via environment variables, including ports and retention.
Plausible vs Sloggo FAQ
Is Plausible or Sloggo free?+
Plausible has a free plan and paid plans. Sloggo is free and open source.
Is Plausible or Sloggo open source?+
Yes, both are open source: Plausible (plausible/analytics on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license) and Sloggo (phare/sloggo on GitHub, MIT license).
Do Plausible and Sloggo integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Plausible lists Data Studio Connector and NPM package; Sloggo lists Docker, Podman and DuckDB.
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