Managed Umami Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Privacy-focused web analytics that is simple, fast, and GDPR-compliant. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Umami, no lock-in.
Umami on ManageStacks is the open-source, privacy-focused web analytics platform deployed to your own AWS, Azure, or GCP region — flat per-app pricing from $15 a month ($29 on the Standard production plan). Track pageviews, events, and visitor metrics without cookies, without personal data collection, and without GDPR consent banners. A self-hosted Google Analytics alternative.
What does Umami do, and why do teams deploy it?
Umami is an open-source web analytics platform built as a privacy-first alternative to Google Analytics. It collects website usage data — pageviews, sessions, referrers, UTM parameters, custom events, and geographic data — without cookies, without personal data, and without fingerprinting. This means no GDPR consent banners, no cookie opt-ins, and no data flowing to ad networks.
Unlike Google Analytics (which feeds data into Google's advertising infrastructure), Umami stores analytics data on your own infrastructure in a standard PostgreSQL or MySQL database. The dashboard is clean, fast, and focused on the metrics that matter: pageviews, unique visitors, bounce rate, session duration, referral sources, device/browser/OS breakdowns, and custom events. A single lightweight tracking script (under 2KB) is all you add to your site.
Self-hosting Umami requires a Node.js runtime, PostgreSQL or MySQL for analytics data, and consideration for high-traffic ingestion scaling. ManageStacks provisions the full stack — database with automatic partitioning for high-volume sites, Node.js workers, SSL, backups — so your team gets privacy-compliant analytics without managing the data pipeline.
- Cookie-free, GDPR-compliant analytics with no consent banners needed
- Lightweight tracking script under 2KB — minimal page load impact
- Real-time dashboard with pageviews, sessions, referrers, and events
- Custom event tracking for button clicks, form submissions, and conversions
- UTM parameter tracking for campaign attribution
- Device, browser, OS, and geographic breakdowns
Privacy-focused web analytics that is simple, fast, and GDPR-compliant
Umami as a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics and Plausible
Instead of paying per-seat fees to a SaaS vendor, teams self-host Umami to keep full control of their data and infrastructure. ManageStacks removes the operational overhead — you get the cost and privacy benefits of open source with the reliability of a managed platform.
What does managed Umami hosting cost?
Flat per-app pricing, in your chosen AWS, Azure, or GCP region. No per-user pricing — a busy deployment costs the same as a quiet one.
Starter
Staging and internal tools. Dedicated instance, TLS, daily backups, managed upgrades.
Standard
Production workloads. Adds monitoring, staging environment, region choice, priority support.
Business
High-traffic and compliance workloads. Adds a high-availability replica and same-day support.
24×7 SRE retainer
Round-the-clock on-call across every hosted application, for teams that need a pager answered at 3am.
When is self-hosting Umami the right answer instead?
“Managed hosting is not always the correct call.”
Self-host when a platform team already runs the infrastructure and on-call rotation to operate Umami at genuinely low marginal cost. Self-host when compliance requires an air-gapped or on-premises deployment that no hosted option can satisfy. And self-host when the deployment depends on heavy customisation with a fast internal build-deploy loop, because an internal release process will beat any managed change process.
For everyone else — teams whose engineers have better things to do than shepherd upgrades — managed hosting is cheaper than the hours it replaces.
Which cloud should Umami run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Umami in the same cloud and region as the applications and data it talks to, because every request between them adds a round trip. The underlying compute performs equivalently across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In practice, an existing cloud footprint decides it. All plans support all three clouds, and moving regions later is a scheduled migration, not a rebuild.
Deepest managed-service catalog, default when there's no existing footprint
Best fit for teams already on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID
Strongest for data/analytics-adjacent workloads
Every plan supports AWS, Azure, and GCP — region choice included.
Common questions about Umami on ManageStacks
What is Umami on ManageStacks?
Umami is a privacy-focused web analytics platform. It tracks pageviews, events, and visitor metrics without cookies or personal data. ManageStacks hosts it in your own cloud so analytics data stays fully under your control.
How does Umami compare to Google Analytics?
Google Analytics uses cookies, collects personal data, and feeds into Google's ad ecosystem — requiring GDPR consent banners. Umami is cookie-free, collects no personal data, and self-hosts on your infrastructure. No consent banners, no data shared with third parties.
Does Umami require cookie consent banners?
No. Umami does not use cookies and does not collect personal data or IP addresses. In most jurisdictions, this means no GDPR consent banner is required. Always consult your legal team for jurisdiction-specific advice.
Can Umami track custom events?
Yes. Umami supports custom event tracking via a simple JavaScript API call. Track button clicks, form submissions, file downloads, video plays, and any other interaction you define.
Does Umami support multiple websites?
Yes. A single Umami instance can track unlimited websites, each with its own dashboard and tracking code. ManageStacks provisions the database to handle multi-site analytics data.
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