Analytics & Deploy
Hosting, product analytics and error monitoring.
How I ship and then watch what happens: where the app runs, what users actually do, and how I find out when something breaks.
Overview
Deploy and observability go together for me. I host where deploys are effortless and previews are automatic, layer in lightweight product analytics so I can see real behavior, and add error monitoring so production problems surface as alerts instead of support tickets. I keep this stack thin — three tools, each doing one job well.
Tools
Vercel
Where I host Next.js apps — zero-config deploys, preview URLs, and Vercel Analytics for web vitals.
Microsoft Clarity
Free heatmaps and session replay to see how users actually move through a page.
Sentry
Error and performance monitoring in production — stack traces and alerts when things break.
My pick
Vercel is the default for hosting Next.js — branching, previews and analytics in the same place I deploy. I add Sentry on anything real so I hear about errors before users report them, and reach for Clarity when I want to understand behavior rather than just count it. See Deploy & Maintenance for how these fit my workflow.