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Stripe Analytics: Technical Review of Reports, API and Automation for SaaS

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Stripe Analytics: Under the Hood of Payment Analytics

When people talk about Stripe, they usually discuss the payment API. But in 2026, the analytics layer is no less important. For SaaS companies with $10K+ MRR, understanding payment metrics is not optional.

Docs: docs.stripe.com/analytics

Data Architecture

Stripe stores payment events in three layers:

Event store — immutable log of all events (charge.created, invoice.paid, refund.processed). Accessible via Events API, 365-day retention.
Materialised views — precomputed aggregates for Dashboard: MRR, churn, ARPU. Updated with up to 2-hour delay.
Sigma — SQL engine over the event log. Allows arbitrary queries without ETL.

Key nuance: Dashboard materialised views use algorithms that may differ from your internal metrics by 3–7%.

Cronitor: Cron Job Monitoring Without the Headache

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you have cron jobs — and you do if you work with servers — you know the feeling: a backup failed at 3 AM, and you find out a week later. Cronitor solves exactly this problem. It’s scheduled task monitoring that watches your jobs run on time and raises the alarm when something goes wrong.

Cronitor is a small, focused service from a US-based team. Not an all-in-one like Datadog, but a tool that does one thing and does it well.

Plausible Analytics: Analytics Without Tracking or GDPR Headaches

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Google Analytics has worn everyone out: cookie banners, GDPR fines, slow scripts, and numbers that make no sense. Plausible is the complete opposite. No cookies, no personal data, a 1.5 KB script. Open source with self-hosting to boot.

Website: plausible.io

What It Measures

Page views, traffic sources, geography (country level), devices, entry and exit pages, goals (e.g., signups or button clicks). All on a single dashboard that loads in a second.

UptimeRobot: Website Monitoring for Pocket Change

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

UptimeRobot has been on the market since 2010 and has become the de facto standard for basic monitoring. The service checks if your site is alive and tells you when it’s dead. Simple, cheap, reliable.

Website: uptimerobot.com

How It Works

UptimeRobot pings your URLs from multiple locations and logs the results. HTTP(S), ping, port, keyword check, and heartbeat are supported. Check intervals range from 1 minute on paid plans to 5 minutes on the free tier.

Vercel Analytics: Built-In Frontend Analytics

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Vercel Analytics is a built-in analytics tool for sites and apps on the Vercel platform. Two products: Analytics (performance and Web Vitals) and Speed Insights (detailed speed metric breakdowns). They emerged as an answer to developers’ need to see real data on how users interact with their site — without hooking up third-party services.

Website: vercel.com/analytics

What’s Inside

Web Vitals Analytics — Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) from real users. Not Lighthouse lab tests, but data from live visitors’ browsers. Breakdowns by device, country, browser version, connection type. You can see that your site lags on 3G in India but runs great on fiber in Germany.