Updating Umami Analytics

Oct 16, 2023

After deploying your Umami instance, it is a piece of software like everything else, and needs to be updated as well. Previously, I wrote about The Good Side of Analytics, and how to get this setup on Vercel.

I was updating other software and saw there was an update to Umami as well. Since the install process is making a fork of their repository, setup some database url connection strings, build and deploy, updating shouldn't be that difficult either right? Okay, that was a really simple explanation of the install process.

I mistakenly deleted the repository that had my local .env settings and initial build. Since this was a fork, I still had the initial repo forked and knew GitHub lets your sync your repository with the main.

GitHub fork where you can sync the repository

All I needed to do now, was to click the sync fork button and let GitHub do the work. Once the sync was complete, there is a new commit created for the update, which triggered a new build on Vercel. Since I have my environment variables setup in my deployment variable settings, everything stayed in place and kept working.

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Updating Umami Analytics

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