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Why I Use Umami Instead of Google Analytics (And Don't Have a Cookie Banner)

When I was setting up analytics for my blog, Google Analytics seemed like the obvious choice. But once I looked at what it actually requires — a tracking script, a cookie consent banner, a cookie…

  • Google Analytics requires tracking script, cookie consent banner, and GDPR compliance
  • Umami is open-source, self-hosted analytics platform without cookies or consent banners
  • Umami provides essential metrics with smaller script size and user-friendly dashboard

Backend Uptime Alerts from One-Minute Metrics API Polling and Failure Evidence

A one-minute poller is only useful if it preserves enough evidence to explain an outage after the alert fires. For a gaming backend, the practical choice is to evaluate a low-cardinality availability…

  • One-Minute Metrics API polls backend uptime at one-minute intervals.
  • Separate detection and diagnosis for incident records with timestamps and error context.
  • Node.js worker handles uptime polling with state machine and business policy thresholds.

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