[note: I work at Keen and have a lot of biases :)]
The main alternative to Keen IO is to build your own backend. Some developers will always prefer that, but many folks don't have the time & resources to devote to constructing & maintaining an analytics backend. Here are some things that people appreciate about Keen IO:
- The ability to start collecting & querying their event data immediately & easily
- Keen's uptime and reliability (transferring backend ops from their pager to ours).
- Not having to worry about scalability. For customers who are collecting billions of events per month and planning to double in less than a year, data challenges are less trivial.
- A point and click query interface that can be used by some non-devs to run analysis, create graphs, extract data, etc
- Query & visualization libraries that allow you to create reporting interfaces (websites/dashboards/customer-facing-analytics) much more quickly
- A growing inventory of features & open source tools that build on the API (scoped keys, caching, notifications, dashboard templates, etc)
The main alternative to Keen IO is to build your own backend. Some developers will always prefer that, but many folks don't have the time & resources to devote to constructing & maintaining an analytics backend. Here are some things that people appreciate about Keen IO:
- The ability to start collecting & querying their event data immediately & easily
- Keen's uptime and reliability (transferring backend ops from their pager to ours).
- Not having to worry about scalability. For customers who are collecting billions of events per month and planning to double in less than a year, data challenges are less trivial.
- A point and click query interface that can be used by some non-devs to run analysis, create graphs, extract data, etc
- Query & visualization libraries that allow you to create reporting interfaces (websites/dashboards/customer-facing-analytics) much more quickly
- A growing inventory of features & open source tools that build on the API (scoped keys, caching, notifications, dashboard templates, etc)