Introducing JustAnalytics: One Platform to Replace Five Tools

The Problem with Modern Observability

If you're running a modern web application, you probably pay for at least three or four separate tools just to understand what's happening. Google Analytics for traffic. Sentry for errors. Datadog for APM and infrastructure. LogRocket for session replays. Pingdom for uptime. Each tool has its own pricing model, its own onboarding flow, its own dashboard, and its own JavaScript snippet weighing down your pages.

We lived this pain firsthand. Our monitoring stack cost over $800/month and still left gaps. Error context was disconnected from user sessions. Traces couldn't be correlated with real user behavior. And every new hire spent their first week just learning how to navigate five different dashboards.

What JustAnalytics Does

JustAnalytics is a unified observability platform that replaces your entire monitoring stack:

• Real-time analytics -- pageviews, sessions, referrers, geo, device breakdowns
• Error tracking with stack traces, source map deobfuscation, and issue workflows
• Session replay to see exactly what users experienced before an error
• Distributed tracing with service maps and APM metrics
• Log aggregation with structured search and log-to-trace correlation
• Infrastructure monitoring with CPU, memory, and custom metrics
• Uptime monitoring with multi-region checks and incident timelines
• Conversion funnels, cohort retention, path exploration, and attribution modeling
• Alert rules with email and push notification channels

All from a single tracking script under 5KB and a Node.js SDK for server-side instrumentation.

Privacy First, Always

Unlike Google Analytics, JustAnalytics is built with privacy at its core:

• No cookies -- we use fingerprint-free session heuristics
• GDPR and CCPA compliant out of the box
• Do Not Track respected by default
• Bot filtering and referrer spam protection built in
• IP anonymization -- we never store raw IP addresses

You don't need a cookie consent banner for JustAnalytics.

Architecture Highlights

Under the hood, JustAnalytics is built on:

• Next.js 14+ with the App Router for the dashboard
• PostgreSQL for reliable, ACID-compliant data storage
• W3C Trace Context (traceparent headers) for distributed tracing
• WebSocket real-time streaming for live dashboards
• Hourly and daily aggregation jobs to keep queries fast at scale

The Node.js SDK (@justanalyticsapp/node) provides auto-instrumentation for HTTP, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Express/Next.js with zero-config setup.

Getting Started

Getting started takes under two minutes:

<!-- Add to your HTML -->
<script defer src="https://justanalytics.app/tracker.js" data-site-id="YOUR_SITE_ID" />

For server-side monitoring, install the SDK:

npm install @justanalyticsapp/node

import { init } from '@justanalyticsapp/node';

init({
  apiKey: 'your-api-key',
  serviceName: 'my-api',
  environment: 'production',
});

That's it. Traces, errors, logs, and metrics start flowing automatically.

What's Next

We're shipping fast. Here's what's on the roadmap:

• Custom dashboards -- build your own metric layouts
• Slack and PagerDuty integrations for alert channels
• OpenTelemetry collector compatibility
• Team collaboration with role-based access control
• Mobile SDK for React Native and Flutter

We'd love your feedback. Sign up for the free tier and let us know what you think.