Product Analytics: A sneak peek at our upcoming feature

What this post added

This post introduces the new Product Analytics capability within GitLab. It details the vision for enabling developers to easily add instrumentation to their applications, providing infrastructure to receive and process data, run experiments, and enable consumers of the data to gain insights. The initial focus is on web applications using JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, with plans to expand to other frameworks and tech stacks. The implementation will leverage open-source technologies: Snowplow for instrumentation, ClickHouse for data storage, and Cube.dev for data processing and visualization, with ECharts for charting. Configuration will be managed via files in GitLab projects, allowing for collaboration through merge requests. The post also highlights the commitment to user privacy by allowing users to provide their own Kubernetes clusters for data processing and storage, ensuring data ownership.