Making Umami actually useful with a quick Grafana dashboard

I've been using Umami for analytics on Hostim.dev since the early days. It's lightweight and privacy-friendly, but once you start relying on the data, the default dashboard feels a bit too minimal.

So I hacked together a small Grafana dashboard on top of Umami's PostgreSQL.

Took maybe 10 minutes and added things I actually needed:

• hourly traffic heatmaps
• 7-day moving averages
• bot filtering (qualified sessions only)
• grouped referrers (search, LLM, etc.)
• selectable custom events

The difference is night and day — suddenly the data becomes actionable instead of “nice to look at.”

I wrote a short guide with:

• a ready-to-use Docker Compose stack (Umami + Postgres + Grafana)
• the dashboard import link
• and how to hook it up if you're already using Umami

If you're into self-hosting or analytics, here's the write-up:
https://hostim.dev/blog/umami-grafana-dashboard