Analyticts Are Not Logging

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Thought I’d lend a hand here as I just went through something similar with nginx. Basically, Ghost isn’t being told to include the required name=analytics_events query parameter in its analytics tracking requests. The traffic-analytics service requires this parameter to know which Tinybird datasource to send the data to.

To fix it you need to add a tinybird__tracker__endpoint in your .env file to include ?name=analytics_events, allowing Ghost to forward properly formatted requests to Tinybird.

So in my .env file I added this line after the “DOMAIN=” part:

tinybird__tracker__endpoint=https://mydomain.com/.ghost/analytics/api/v1/page_hit?name=analytics_events

In compose.yml in the traffic-analytics section, I added the relevant port:

...
expose:
  - "3000"
ports:
  - "3000:3000"       # Add this line

Finally, in Nginx I added this block:

# Proxy Ghost analytics traffic to Traffic Analytics service
location ~ ^/.ghost/analytics/(.*)$ {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000/$1$is_args$args;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_buffering off;
    proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}

Hope that helps someone!

Traffic Analytics empty despite no errors