LogRocket vs Matomo

LogRocket combines session replay, product analytics, and error monitoring for web and native mobile apps. It records user activity and events, and teams can search sessions by user information, errors, URLs, and more than 50 other options. Galileo Highlights summarizes sessions to help teams investigate issues without reviewing each recording. Core includes analytics, error, and log events, plus funnels, path analysis, alerting, clickmaps, heatmaps, and rage-click maps. Performance monitoring covers web vitals, CPU and memory use, network speed, request duration, and page loads. LogRocket lists 40+ out-of-the-box integrations and supports custom integration setup; examples include Datadog, New Relic, Zendesk, Intercom, Sentry, Snowflake, and LaunchDarkly. Passwords are excluded by default, and customers can block or redact other sensitive fields before data leaves the browser. LogRocket states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified, encrypts data in transit and at rest, and supports GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and FINRA requirements. Enterprise self-hosted deployments run on customer infrastructure, with data staying within the customer's network.

Matomo is a web analytics platform for tracking events, conversions, ecommerce activity, and visitor sessions. It includes heatmaps, session recordings, A/B testing, funnels, and flows, with API access and more than 100 integrations. It is available as Cloud-hosted or self-hosted on-premise software. The Community plan is free forever, with unlimited users and hits and forum support; self-hosted Matomo is also available free forever. Cloud plans start at €230/mo (annual), and a 21-day Cloud trial does not require a credit card. Cloud billing can be monthly or annual, with two months free annually. Matomo says its data is unsampled and customers retain ownership through cloud or on-premise hosting. Privacy capabilities include support for GDPR compliance, cookieless tracking, and anonymisation; the platform is certified to ISO 27001:2022. Cloud data is stored in Frankfurt, Germany. Raw data retention is 24 months, while report data is retained forever. Matomo was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.