Hello, friends! Today, I’d like to share what I’ve learned about Matomo.

1. Integrating Matomo with in my System

A few months ago, I designed my proxy server using Traefik. Integrating Matomo was a bit tricky, so I’ll start by showing you the completed configuration I used:

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services:
  db:
    image: mariadb:10.11
    command: --max-allowed-packet=64MB
    volumes:
      - ./db:/var/lib/mysql:Z
    env_file:
      - ./db.env
    networks:
      - matomo_network
  app:
    image: matomo:fpm-alpine
    links:
      - db
    volumes:
      - ./matomo:/var/www/html:z
    env_file:
      - ./db.env
    networks:
      - matomo_network
  web:
    image: nginx:alpine
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - ./matomo:/var/www/html:z,ro
      - ./matomo.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:z,ro
    networks:
      - traefik_apps
      - matomo_network
    labels:
      - traefik.docker.network=traefik_apps
      - traefik.enable=true
      - traefik.http.routers.matomo.rule=Host(`x.xlibia.xyz`)
      - traefik.http.services.matomo.loadbalancer.server.port=80
networks:
  traefik_apps:
    external: true
  matomo_network:
    driver: bridge

Next, I added this component traefik, but I encountered several issues because Matomo was retriving an IP from a different network. It’s crucial to have 2 networks: one internal and one external. I had never used the traefik tag traefik.docker.network=traefik_apps before, but it proved to be very useful. I initially thougth using the networks tag was enougth, but this tag assigns the Matomo server container to the global network, allowing it to receive an any IP from either network. I discovered this by using the following command:

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docker network inspect traefik_apps
docker network inspect matomo_network

2. Learning some basic from matomo

I need to know some analitycs of my post, because i learn a little of matomo, I learn 2 things.

• Tracking Goals

If you want to know how many people are visiting a specific page, such as an ‘About’ page, you need to set up a goal in Matomo. This will help you monitor how many visitors are reaching About.

• Tracking Events

I wanted to track how many people are being redirected to my SoundCloud podcast. For this, you can use tracking events in Matomo.This way, you can track every time a visitor clicks on that link and gets redirected to your podcast.

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