shynet

Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.

⭐ 3,133 stars on GitHub · 🍴 205 forks · 📜 License: apache-2.0 · 💻 Language: Python

What is shynet?

An infrastructure monitoring tool — track servers, containers, services in real time with intuitive dashboards and multi-channel alerts.

Main components

• Runs on a single machine — Because it's so small, Shynet can easily run as a single docker container on a single small VPS
• ...or across a giant Kubernetes cluster — For higher traffic installations, Shynet can be deployed with as many parallelized ingress nodes as needed, with Redis caching and separate backend w...
• Built using Django — Shynet is built using Django, so deploying, updating, and migrating can be done without headaches
• Multiple users and sites — A single Shynet instance can support multiple users, each tracking multiple different sites
• JavaScript not required — It will fallback to using a 1x1 transparent tracking pixel if JavaScript isn't available
• Lightweight — The tracking script weighs less than a kilobyte (and doesn't look like your typical tracking script)
• Generally not blocked — Because you host Shynet yourself, it tends not to be on ad block lists
• Primary-key integration — You can easily associate visitors in Shynet with their user accounts on your site (if that's something you want)

The biggest strength is real-time metrics with low latency + auto anomaly detection + multi-channel alerts.

Best for DevOps/SRE, sysadmins, anyone running >2 servers needing unified dashboard + alerting.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ a17t
• 🏷️ analytics
• 🏷️ django
• 🏷️ docker
• 🏷️ kubernetes
• 🏷️ monitoring
• 🏷️ noscript
• 🏷️ privacy
• 🏷️ python
• 🏷️ security

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet.git
cd shynet
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: milesmcc/shynet
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.