Self-host Liwan
liwan-v1.8.1Privacy-first web analytics you host yourself
- Stars
- 218
- Port
- 9042 (HTTP server)
ghcr.io/explodingcamera/liwan
What is Liwan?
Liwan is a self-hosted web analytics application for site owners who value visitor privacy. It delivers a live dashboard showing popular pages, traffic origins, and trends while automatically filtering bots. You can run it as a standalone binary on Linux or macOS, or as a Docker container; both include the dashboard and an embedded DuckDB database so no extra services are needed. Collection settings are granular: choose a visitor-grouping strategy, decide whether to store city-level or country-level geography, toggle UTM campaign fields, enable or disable session measurements, and set how long raw events are kept. Tracking can be added with a one-line browser snippet or sent entirely from your backend, working with any framework. Teams can authenticate via major identity platforms or any OIDC provider such as Keycloak, while local password accounts always remain an option. The codebase is Apache-2.0 licensed and receives regular updates.
Should you self-host Liwan?
Liwan scores 49/100 on selfhost.directory (how scoring works) and ranks #12 of 27 in Analytics. It has 218 GitHub stars.
It shipped 5 stable releases in the past year. The latest, liwan-v1.8.1, came out on 23 October 2026. New versions land roughly every 5 weeks.
Setup is easy: most people get it running in one sitting. An official Docker image is available. It is Apache-2.0-licensed and written mostly in Rust.
Its closest alternative on selfhost.directory is PostHog (81/100, 40 492 stars). It scores higher overall, so compare the two before you pick. See Liwan vs PostHog side by side.
Features
- Bot Filtering
- Configurable data collection
- Data retention and pruning
- Docker Compose Deployment
- Drop Rules
- Lightweight browser tracker
- Privacy-first tracking
- Real-time dashboard
- Server-side event tracking
- Single Sign-On (OIDC)
- Systemd/OpenRC service
- Team Management
Liwan README
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