Overview
OpenReplay is a self-hostable session replay suite with co-browsing, performance monitoring, and product analytics. It records user sessions like Hotjar/FullStory while keeping all data on your own infrastructure, and adds devtools, network and console capture, and error tracking for debugging. The most credible open-source alternative to Hotjar for session replay.
Where it falls short of Hotjar
- Self-hosting requires a Kubernetes-based multi-service stack; resource-hungry and complex to operate.
- Product-analytics features (funnels, cohorts) are less mature than Amplitude/Mixpanel.
- No traditional aggregate web-analytics dashboard; it is session-centric.
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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