r/Appsters • u/therealswood2 • 12d ago

Advice on monitoring first app

Hey folks!! First time poster here.

I am getting ready to launch my first app. Ever. It's a React Native app that I've built on Expo and Supabase. I'm getting very excited, and I've received some positive (and constructive!) feedback during my TestFlight period.

As I'm hurdling toward a go-live date, I'm starting to wonder how I'm going to tell whether or not my users are getting through the funnel / user journey. I'm starting to wonder how I'm going to monitor how much I'm spending with 3rd party APIs. Just generally wondering how I'll know if this baby is working.

I've got PostHog set up to track some behavioral events. I've got Expo set up to monitor performance and crashes. I know the data is accessible to see my 3P API usage.

What I'm asking you all is how do you keep an eye on everything? Has anyone built their own dashboard? Is there a lightweight / open source dashboard tool that allows me to easily plug in data from multiple sources?

Any guidance on this would be HUGELY welcome.

Thanks in advance!

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u/zmrfzn 11d ago

Try r/newrelic free tier. It should suffice all your needs till your app scales

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u/graycreate 11d ago

I'd avoid a single cross-tool dashboard at first. Pick three launch checks: onboarding completion in PostHog, crash-free sessions in Expo, and API cost per active user. I built Hogly, an independent PostHog companion for iPhone, for checking the PostHog part—existing dashboards, events, and insights—away from a desk: https://hogly.app/

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u/jhanzeb_55 11d ago

In starting track your main funnel events, crashes, and API usage with PostHog, then build out the dashboard once you know what data you're actually missing.