Ask HN: Autonomous Analytics Monitoring

[klausthaler]

Hey Hackernews: How do you guys keep track of all your analytical information?

Let's say, you're using various different services, e.g.: Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Salesforce...

Now you'd like to monitor any updates in your date, eg.: number of people using your newsletter has increased / growth rate has dropped, Website-Traffic of has de/increased, Number of transactions/Weekly increase/decrease in growth, etc..

How do you guys monitor this? I'd like to eliminate the need of manually looking at the data and evaluating changes across different internal/external services.

Ideally I could use a tool that notifies my about any abnormal (positive as well as negative) change. Big Plus: A summary report of everything.

[XCSme]

Do the tools provide APIs you can listen to? If not, using a "website change detection" service could work, if it allows for logged-in sessions.

[klausthaler]

Yes, they do. I could build a solution myself but I really hoped for an existing one.

[XCSme]

Something like https://chartbrew.com or other graph-generating platforms?

[klausthaler]

That seems interesting. - Thank you so much! But there's no tool to keep track of updates and notify me about any abnormal change. e.g.: sudden drop in website traffic. I'd have to build this myself, right?

[XCSme]

> But there's no tool to keep track of updates and notify me about any abnormal change

As I mentioned, there are services that notify you of changes, you can define what those changes are (number increases by X, etc.).

It's very hard to define what abnormal is, maybe you run an ad campaign, then your traffic will spike up, which is expected.

[klausthaler]

Hey thank you! Yes, you're right. And that'd be what I hoped for. Being able to detect certain spikes/drops so I can start investing as soon as they happen.

But setting those limits manually seems like an option. This should be possible using chartbrew, correct? I didn't find anything anything in the documentation, but I will look into it more deeply tomorrow.

Thank you so much for your help