Beampipe

Simple, privacy-focussed web analytics. No cookies. GDPR/CCPA compliant. Free for small sites.

Try it at beampipe.io or check out the live demo.

• Privacy-first — no cookies, no personal identifiers, fully GDPR/PECR/CCPA compliant
• Lightweight tracker — tiny script that won't slow down your site
• Real-time dashboard — filter by source, region or time period
• Goal & conversion tracking — record custom events via our JavaScript SDK
• Slack integration — daily/weekly reports and event notifications
• GraphQL API — query and export your data on demand
• Free tier — up to 10k page views/month at no cost

The backend is written in Kotlin with Micronaut and stores data in PostgreSQL + TimescaleDB.

The dashboard UI is a React + TypeScript SPA built with Vite and Tailwind CSS.

The marketing site and docs are static Astro sites deployed to Cloudflare Pages.

The quickest way to run beampipe locally:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scalar-dev/beampipe/master/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml
docker compose up

This launches TimescaleDB and beampipe. Access the UI at http://localhost:8080.

Docker images are on Docker Hub:

• scalardev/beampipe — server + UI

Prerequisites: Bun

bun install   # install all workspace dependencies

cd web
bun dev       # http://localhost:4321

cd ui
bun dev       # http://localhost:5173

cd docs
bun dev       # http://localhost:4321

Docs are live at docs.beampipe.io.

• beampipe.io
• Documentation
• Blog

Built and sponsored by Scalar.