What is Panelbear used for?

Panelbear, now Cronitor Analytics, provides cookie-free website analytics with traffic, performance, and error tracking. It is a good fit for monitoring website traffic and performance, tracking JavaScript errors and their impact on conversions, and alerting on performance degradation.

Is Panelbear open source?

No. Panelbear is proprietary (closed-source) software. In the Analytics category, open-source options include Umami, Ackee and Tianji.

What are some alternatives to Panelbear?

Panelbear competes with Mixpanel.

Panelbear: features, pricing and alternatives

About Panelbear

Panelbear is now Cronitor Analytics. It combines traffic, performance, and JavaScript errors in a single tool. The tool is cookie-free and designed for privacy.

It offers alerting on traffic, load time, and error rate. JavaScript error tracking is on by default and shares a dataset with traffic. Errors are grouped by type, message, file, and line, with browser-extension noise filtered out.

Key features

Cookie-free analytics
Traffic, performance, and error tracking in one tool
Alerting on traffic, load time, and error rate
JavaScript error tracking grouped by type, message, file, and line
Real user monitoring with Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and full page-load timing
Conversion tracking with one line of code

Good fit for

Monitoring website traffic and performance
Tracking JavaScript errors and their impact on conversions
Alerting on performance degradation

Tags: analytics; monitoring; performance; error tracking; real user monitoring; privacy

Panelbear: questions and answers

What is Panelbear used for?: Panelbear, now Cronitor Analytics, provides cookie-free website analytics with traffic, performance, and error tracking. It is a good fit for monitoring website traffic and performance, tracking JavaScript errors and their impact on conversions, and alerting on performance degradation.
Is Panelbear open source?: No. Panelbear is proprietary (closed-source) software. In the Analytics category, open-source options include Umami, Ackee and Tianji.
What are some alternatives to Panelbear?: Panelbear competes with Mixpanel.