Getting Started

The open source project Fathom Lite offers simple website analytics. This tutorial walks you through using Fathom Lite in Open Source Cloud as a service for collecting page views and present it on a dashboard.

Prerequisites

• If you have not already done so, sign up for an OSC account.

Step 1: Setup secrets

Create two service secrets in the Fathom Lite service in the OSC web user interface.

• [email protected]
• password=guidepassword123

The user and password to just serve as an example.

Step 2: Create collector

Click on the button "Create collector" in the web user interface.

Then enter the following values in the create instance dialog.

Press the button Create and wait for the instance to be in status Running.

Step 3: Create a site

When the status is Running, click on the instance card that you created or click on the three dots and the menu item "Open application". Sign in with the email and password that you specified in step 1.

Enter the name of your site and press Create site.

Step 4: Add tracking code to your website.

Copy the tracking code and add it to your website's pages.

That's it and you are ready to get started collecting data for you website.