- Quickstarts
- Matomo
Deploy Matomo
Matomo (formerly Piwik) is an open-source analytics platform that focuses on user privacy and data ownership. It is a free alternative to Google Analytics and is already used on more than a million websites.
You can host your own Matomo instance on Render in just a few minutes. Once it’s live you will be able to log in and get your JavaScript snippet that you can add to any website to get instant access to detailed, real-time analytics.
Click Deploy to Render below to deploy Matomo on Render.
The rest of this document explains how to set up Matomo on Render manually.
Set up a new MySQL 8 instance on Render. Make sure to select the master
branch when you create your database so it uses MySQL 8. The database should be up in a few minutes; wait for it to go live before moving to the next step.
You’ll need details from your MySQL private database service before you can deploy the Matomo web app.
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Fork render-examples/matomo on GitHub or click
Use this template
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Create a new Web Service on Render and give Render’s GitHub app permission to access your new repository. Make sure the
Runtime
is set toDocker
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Add the following environment variables to your web service:
Key Value MATOMO_DATABASE_HOST
MySQL hostname from above (e.g. mysql-xyz1
)MATOMO_DATABASE_DBNAME
MySQL database name MATOMO_DATABASE_USERNAME
MySQL database username MATOMO_DATABASE_PASSWORD
MySQL database password -
Add a Disk under Advanced:
Name matomo
Mount Path /var/www/html
Size 20 GB
Feel free to change this to suit your needs.
That’s it! Save your web service to deploy Matomo on Render. It will take a couple of minutes to start but future deploys will be much faster.
Your Matomo instance will be available on your .onrender.com
URL as soon as your first deploy is live. You can configure it by going to https://your-subdomain.onrender.com
and start using Matomo!