Trench

What Trench is

Trench is open-source infrastructure for real-time event tracking and analytics, built on Apache Kafka and ClickHouse. It supports the Segment specification, including Track, Identify, and Group, and users can query data in real time with SQL or REST. It can route data to other destinations through throttled webhooks. The site says a single node can process thousands of events per second using Kafka. Trench provides a production-ready Docker image containing Kafka, ClickHouse, and the application, and the Open Source plan can be self-hosted on any cloud provider.

The software is available under the MIT License, and the site describes it as GDPR compliant. Open Source costs nothing, has no usage limits, and includes community support, with Slack offered for assistance. Enterprise pricing is volume-based and not listed as a price; the plan includes dedicated infrastructure, a dedicated support engineer, 24/7 phone and email support, an on-premises option, SAML 2.0 SSO, and third-party integrations. The team says it created Trench after its Postgres event-tracking table became costly and a performance bottleneck while serving millions of end users. The site says Trench is built in San Francisco.