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Analytics platforms are built to help organizations understand what their users are doing. Increasingly, they do much more than that: they connect behavioral data with customer context, power personalization, inform automated decisions, and provide intelligence to teams and AI systems. To do this well, analytics needs access to valuable data. That makes analytics more than a measurement layer. It makes analytics part of your security perimeter.

Countly’s original architecture was built around a simple idea: process an event, update the relevant metrics, and make the result available immediately. MongoDB handled the detailed events, analytical aggregates, and operational data behind the platform. That model worked well for years. Then our customers began operating at a different scale. They were collecting billions of events, retaining longer histories, and adding more custom properties.