Analytics only earns its keep when the numbers survive contact with reality. These guides cover tracking that respects privacy, pipelines that fail loudly, and reporting that a small team can maintain without a dedicated platform crew.
Server-side tracking is not a way to bring cookies back. It is a way to control which data leaves your system, in what shape, and with what consent attached.

Most pipeline failures are not crashes. They are fields that quietly change type, enums that grow a new value, and dashboards that keep rendering a number nobody should trust.