Countly Lite - Self-Hosted Product Analytics

This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.

## Own Your Product Analytics

Countly Lite, the free Community Edition of Countly, is a popular open source, self hosted product, mobile and web analytics platform that captures sessions, custom events, funnels, retention and crash data from your apps and websites, and presents them through a rich web dashboard and a simple HTTP API. This image delivers it fully installed, tuned and reverse proxied behind nginx, so your analytics server is operational within minutes of launch, with no manual package installation, no Node.js or MongoDB setup and no reverse proxy configuration required.

This is a repackaged open source software product. Additional charges apply for cloudimg packaging, security patching, image maintenance and 24/7 expert support.

## Who This Is For

Product teams and mobile developers who want deep, real time analytics on their own infrastructure rather than sending every session and event to a third party service. Agencies running analytics for several client apps from one console. Privacy conscious organisations who need to decide exactly what is collected, how long it is retained and who can see it, because the data never leaves infrastructure they control.

## Why This Over the Alternatives

• vs manual Countly deployment: skip hours of package installation, Node.js configuration, MongoDB tuning and nginx setup. This image is production ready on first boot.
• vs hosted SaaS analytics tools: keep every event on your own AWS infrastructure, with no per event fees at scale and full control over data retention and access.
• vs unsupported community images: this image ships zero default credentials, includes a dedicated EBS data volume, enables unattended security upgrades and is backed by 24/7 professional support.

## What You Get

• Countly Community Edition 25.03.49, the free open source build, on Node.js 20, serving the /i ingest and /o read APIs and the web dashboard
• A local MongoDB 8.0 database on a dedicated EBS data volume, loopback bound, tuned to fit the recommended instance size
• nginx reverse proxy on port 80 with an unauthenticated health endpoint for load balancer probes
• A unique per instance administrator generated on first boot, with nothing baked into the image
• A fully patched, security hardened base with unattended security upgrades enabled

## Secure By Default

Unlike a bare deployment, this image ships no account and no default credential of any kind. On the first boot of every instance a unique administrator password, session secret and password secret are generated fresh, a single administrator is created from them, and the credentials are written to a root only file. The public dashboard is opened only after that per instance administrator exists, so no unconfigured setup wizard is ever exposed to the first visitor. The MongoDB datastore is bound to the loopback interface only and never exposed to the network; only ports 22, 80 and 443 need an inbound rule in your security group.

## Storage Layout

The MongoDB database tier lives on its own dedicated EBS volume, separate from the operating system disk and independently resizable, mounted by filesystem UUID so the layout persists on every instance launched from the image. Grow the database volume as your ingest volume and retention window grow.

## Getting Started

1. Launch the image on an m5.large instance or larger, with ports 80 and 443 open in your security group

2. Connect over SSH and read the generated administrator password from the root only credentials file

3. Browse to the instance address and sign in as the administrator

4. Create your first application in the dashboard and start sending sessions and events with a Countly SDK or a simple HTTP call

5. Explore audience, behaviour and technology breakdowns, build funnels and segments, and drill into events in real time

## Recommended Instance Sizing

• Minimum: m5.large (2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM) to start
• Recommended: scale the instance and the database volume to your ingest volume
• Networking: ports 80 and 443 for browsers and ingest, port 22 for administration

## Licensing

Countly Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, free. There is no per CPU or per seat software fee; the unmodified upstream software is shipped on disk. Front port 80 with TLS and your own domain before exposing it to production traffic.

## 24/7 cloudimg Support

Every deployment is backed by cloudimg engineers available around the clock by email and live chat, covering deployment and sizing, MongoDB administration and backup, TLS termination, Countly upgrades and performance tuning. Critical issues receive a one hour average response time.

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