Wakapi Self-Hosted Coding Analytics Server | cloudimg Support

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Wakapi is a popular open-source, self-hosted, WakaTime-compatible coding-activity server. It receives heartbeats from standard WakaTime editor plugins for Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Sublime Text and dozens more, then renders clear dashboards showing time spent per project, programming language, editor and machine. Because it speaks the WakaTime API, your existing editor setup points at your own server by changing a single configuration line - and your coding history stays entirely on infrastructure you control.

Deploying Wakapi yourself means installing the binary, writing a systemd unit, generating a password salt, standing up a reverse proxy and seeding an admin account. This AMI eliminates that effort entirely - a working statistics server is running within minutes of launch, not hours.

Wakapi runs as a single Go binary under systemd (wakapi.service), bound only to loopback and served through an nginx reverse proxy ready for your TLS certificate on port 80. The activity database is SQLite on a dedicated, independently-resizable data volume, so the appliance stays lightweight and starts instantly. There is no separate database server to operate and no runtime to patch.

Many pre-built images ship with shared credentials or leave open registration enabled. This image closes those gaps:

• A unique password salt and administrator password are generated for every instance on first boot, before the server is reachable, and are never baked into the image
• A single administrator account with a per-instance random password is seeded and written to a root-only file, alongside the account's WakaTime API key
• Public self sign-up is disabled so the server is single-tenant rather than an open registration service
• Wakapi binds only to loopback and is reached solely through nginx; the SQLite database file on the data volume is never network-reachable

Browse to the instance on port 80, sign in with the generated admin credentials, then point your editor's WakaTime plugin at your server's URL and API key to start recording coding activity. Dashboards break your time down per project, language, editor and machine, with daily and ranged summaries, an all-time overview, optional badges and a simple API for scripting. You can import history from a WakaTime account or another Wakapi instance.

• Installing the binary and writing and hardening a systemd unit
• Standing up an nginx reverse proxy ready for TLS
• Generating a password salt and seeding the first admin account
• Leaving open registration on by mistake
• Ongoing maintenance and security patching without expert guidance

Hosted WakaTime sends your coding telemetry to a third-party service. This AMI keeps all data inside your own AWS account, giving you full ownership, auditability and the ability to run in regulated or air-gapped environments where external SaaS is not permitted.

24/7 technical support by email and live chat with a guaranteed 24-hour response SLA. Our engineers help with deployment, TLS termination, editor plugin configuration, backups, user management and scaling. If you would like a guided setup walkthrough before or after purchase, contact us at any time.

• Keep private, self-owned coding-time metrics inside your own cloud account instead of a third-party service
• Point your team's WakaTime editor plugins at one self-hosted dashboard for per-project and per-language reporting
• A privacy-preserving, data-ownership alternative to hosted developer analytics for regulated or air-gapped environments

Launch the AMI on a minimal instance to explore the dashboard and plugin integration before committing to a larger deployment. If you need assistance at any stage, our support team is available around the clock.

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