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Keen
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Keen

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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.

Keen is a tool in the Analytics category of a tech stack.

Key Features

You can track any kind of interaction that is happening on your website, mobile app, or backend. Keen handles every step in the life cycle of your data, from ingestion to presentation.

Keen Pros & Cons

Pros of Keen

  • ✓Very powerful API
  • ✓Easy setup
  • ✓Great Customer Support
  • ✓Built by developers for developers
  • ✓Customization
  • ✓Dashboards
  • ✓Developer Friendly
  • ✓It's awesome
  • ✓Developer logging
  • ✓Heroku Add-on

Cons of Keen

  • ✗Limited concurrent queries

Keen Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Keen?

Ahoy

Ahoy

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

Snowplow

Snowplow

Snowplow is a real-time event data pipeline that lets you track, contextualize, validate and model your customers’ behaviour across your entire digital estate.

Bitdeli

Bitdeli

Build dashboards and reports with exactly the metrics you need using plain Python scripts. There is nothing new to learn. Bitdeli keeps your results up to date, no matter how much data you have or how complex your metrics are. Get started in minutes with our growing library of open-source analytics, created by experienced data hackers.

Iteratively

Iteratively

Iteratively helps teams capture reliable product analytics they can trust. It eliminates the most common causes of error during the definition and implementation of tracking plans, and cuts down on the time it takes to correctly instrument the product. As a result, folks that consume product analytics get exactly what they spec'd out and can rely on the incoming data knowing it is trustworthy and accurate.

Quickmetrics

Quickmetrics

It is a service for collecting, analyzing and visualizing custom metrics. It can be used to track anything from signups to server response times. Sending events is super simple.

Objectiv

Objectiv

Open-source product analytics infrastructure with a generic event taxonomy, so models built on one company's data set can be deployed and run on another.

Keen Integrations

Modulus, DataHero, USERcycle, bip.io, Runscope and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Keen. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Keen.

Modulus
Modulus
DataHero
DataHero
USERcycle
USERcycle
bip.io
bip.io
Runscope
Runscope
SendGrid Email Analytics by Keen IO
SendGrid Email Analytics by Keen IO
Twilio SendGrid
Twilio SendGrid
Restlet
Restlet
Postman
Postman
Stripe
Stripe
GitHub
GitHub
Heroku
Heroku

Keen Discussions

Discover why developers choose Keen. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 4 of 5 discussions.

Jonathan Kingsley
Jonathan Kingsley

Founder at Refractal

Sep 17, 2015

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Having watched the Keen.IO guys grow their company since it's inception, I think we can safely say that they are one of the best out there in terms of general analytics and storage. Keen

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Dieter Adriaenssens
Dieter Adriaenssens

Feb 10, 2015

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The timing and build data that is generated from the monitored builds is stored in the Keen.io database using its Python library, the analysis and visualisation Javascript SDK powers the Trends dashboard. Keen

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Michael Bleigh
Michael Bleigh

Firebase Engineer at DivShot

Nov 19, 2014

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We use Keen to aggregate and provide reports for our platform metrics such as total requests and bandwidth usage. Keen

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Greg Taylor
Greg Taylor

Sr. Software Engineer at Pathwright

Nov 10, 2014

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Activity feeds, event logging, business analytics. Keen has been incredibly valuable in its ease of use. Keen

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