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Ahoy vs Keen: What are the differences?

Ahoy: A solid foundation for analytics on Rails. Ahoy provides a solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps; Keen: Keen is the embedded analytics API that makes shipping custom user-facing analytics easy and seamless. Keen is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to collect, analyze, and visualize events from anything connected to the internet. Send all your data – any event, from any source, all the time, any time. Keen IO was specifically built to capture and store event data — those constant little interactions that happen all day, every day, in your apps. Event data can be anything, and Keen IO gives you the ability to grab as much of it as you want, then store it forever on our cloud database.

Ahoy and Keen can be primarily classified as "Custom Analytics" tools.

Ahoy is an open source tool with 2.71K GitHub stars and 267 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ahoy's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Ahoy
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    Free
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    Very powerful API
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    Easy setup
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    Great Customer Support
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    Customization
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    Built by developers for developers
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    Dashboards
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    Developer Friendly
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    It's awesome
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    Developer logging
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    Heroku Add-on
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    Github Integration
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    Saved queries
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    Segment Integration
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    Data Collection from any source
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    Very easy to get started. Loads of potential!
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    Good API

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      Limited concurrent queries

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    What is Ahoy?

    Ahoy provides a solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps.

    What is Keen?

    Keen is a powerful set of API's that allow you to stream, store, query, and visualize event-based data. Customer-facing metrics bring SaaS products to the next level with acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers.

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