Resources and insights

Tracking downloads of your open-source projects is key to understanding user engagement. With Scarf, you can see which businesses are using your project, which versions are popular, which platforms are being targeted, and more. This playbook will show you how to set up Scarf to monitor your project’s downloads.

On July 16th, we hosted our first-ever Scarf Summit, celebrating analytics for open source and the significant improvements we’ve made to the Scarf platform. In case you missed it, here’s a recap of all the key updates shared by our Engineering Leader, Aaron Porter.

In this episode of the Haskell Interlude Podcast, Joachim Breitner and Andreas Löh sit down with Avi Press, the founder of Scarf, to discuss his journey with Haskell, the telemetry landscape in open source software, and the technical as well as operational challenges of building a startup with Haskell at its core.

Scarf Basic and Premium tiers have long had the ability to sort their open source usage data by company, domain, events, last seen, and funnel stage. But our customers have been wanting more. Now you can hyper target by combining region, tech stack, and funnel stage, making outreach as refined and low friction as possible. 

Understanding open source user engagements and usage is obscured by a lack of actionable data, a result of its inherent openness and anonymity. Embracing a data-driven approach to open source projects helps them not only grow, but also understand the keys to their success, benefiting everyone involved.

As an open source company, Garden knew how hard it was going to be to get usage data. Adding Scarf for analytics on open source downloads turned anonymous numbers into company names. Using Scarf’s privacy-first analytics also helped Garden to know what kind of companies were using their OSS and where they were located.

Once Heroic started using Scarf, they learned that they were even more popular than they thought they were. Using Scarf, they were able to determine where, by country, their users were downloading from, and how many per day.

Any LF project maintainer can use Scarf without needing any further approval from the foundation. Scarf is offering all LF projects free accounts with a few additional features over our base free version. LF projects will get usage data like docs, downloads, and page views with unlimited free seat licenses and data retention.