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> Is it possible to run Counter scale on-prem against logs from HAProxy, Nginx, or Apache?

Probably. But it's not for that use case (for example, Counterscale intentionally strips IP addresses).

> There's also a newcomer called Plausible which has a FOSS Community Edition [1] which can be self-hosted.

One of the goals of Counterscale is that you can deploy it "fire and forget" with a single terminal command.

Contrast this to Plausible CE, which makes it clear you need some basic adminstrative skills to operate the software:

> you should have a basic understanding of the command-line and networking to successfully set it up

The point is that Counterscale is designed differently than traditional "self-hosted" solutions in order to promote ease of deploy. It comes with serious constraints (like a dependency on Cloudflare). But some people may prefer those tradeoffs.