Documentation · Website · Slack Community · Demo

Trench is an event tracking system built on top of Apache Kafka and ClickHouse. It can handle large event volumes and provides real-time analytics. Trench is no-cookie, GDPR, and PECR compliant. Users have full control to access, rectify, or delete their data.

Our team built Trench to scale up the real-time event tracking pipeline at Frigade.

• 🤝 Compliant with the Segment API (Track, Group, Identify)
• 🐳 Deploy quickly with a single production-ready Docker image
• 💻 Process thousands of events per second on a single node
• ⚡ Query data in real-time
• 🔗 Connect data to other destinations with webhooks
• 👥 Open-source and MIT Licensed

Live demo: https://demo.trench.dev

Video demo:

Watch the following demo to see how you can build a basic version of Google Analytics using Trench and Grafana.

Trench has two methods of deployment:

1. Trench Self-Hosted: An open-source version to deploy and manage Trench on your own infrastructure.
2. Trench Cloud: A fully-managed serverless solution with zero ops, autoscaling, 99.99% SLAs.

Follow our self-hosting instructions below and in our quickstart guide to begin using Trench Self-Hosted.

If you have questions or need assistance, you can join our Slack group for support.

1. Deploy Trench Dev Server: The only prerequisite for Trench is a system that has Docker and Docker Compose installed see installation guide. We recommend having at least 4GB of RAM and 4 CPU cores for optimal performance if you're running a production environment.

   After installing Docker, you can start the local development server by running the following commands:

   git clone https://github.com/frigadehq/trench.git
   cd trench/apps/trench
   cp .env.example .env
   docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.dev.yml up --build --force-recreate --renew-anon-volumes

   The above command will start the Trench server that includes a local ClickHouse and Kafka instance on http://localhost:4000. You can open this URL in your browser and you should see the message Trench server is running. You shouldupdate the .env file to change any of the configuration options.

2. Send a sample event: You can find and update the default public and private API key in the .env file. Using your public API key, you can send a sample event to Trench as such:

   curl -i -X POST \
      -H "Authorization:Bearer public-d613be4e-di03-4b02-9058-70aa4j04ff28" \
      -H "Content-Type:application/json" \
      -d \
   '{
     "events": [
       {
         "userId": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
         "type": "track",
         "event": "ConnectedAccount",
         "properties": {
           "totalAccounts": 4,
           "country": "Denmark"
         },
       }]
   }' \
    'http://localhost:4000/events'

3. Querying events: You can query events using the /events endpoint (see API reference for more details).

   You can also query events directly from your local Trench server. For example, to query events of type ConnectedAccount, you can use the following URL:

   curl -i -X GET \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer private-d613be4e-di03-4b02-9058-70aa4j04ff28" \
      'http://localhost:4000/events?event=ConnectedAccount'

   This will return a JSON response with the event that was just sent:

   {
     "results": [
       {
         "uuid": "25f7c712-dd86-4db0-89a8-d07d11b73e57",
         "type": "track",
         "event": "ConnectedAccount",
         "userId": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
         "properties": {
           "totalAccounts": 4,
           "country": "Denmark"
         },
         "timestamp": "2024-10-22T19:34:56.000Z",
         "parsedAt": "2024-10-22T19:34:59.530Z"
       }
     ],
     "limit": 1000,
     "offset": 0,
     "total": 1
   }

4. Execute raw SQL queries: Use the queries endpoint to analyze your data. Example:

   curl -i -X POST \
      -H "Authorization:Bearer public-d613be4e-di03-4b02-9058-70aa4j04ff28" \
      -H "Content-Type:application/json" \
      -d \
   '{
     "queries": [
       "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM events WHERE userId = '550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000'"
     ]
   }' \
    'http://localhost:4000/queries'

   Sample query result:

   {
     "results": [
       {
         "count": 5
       }
     ],
     "limit": 0,
     "offset": 0,
     "total": 1
   }

If you don't want to selfhost, you can get started with Trench in a few minutes using our Cloud Quickstart Guide.

• Website
• Documentation
• Slack community

Trench is a project built by Frigade.

MIT License