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# What is Jitsu?
Jitsu is a tool for collecting event data from your websites, apps and stream them to your data warehouse or other services.
It is a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Segment.
# Quick start
## 1. Install Jitsu
### Docker Compose
The fastest way to install jitsu is [docker compose](https://docs.jitsu.com/self-hosting/quick-start):
```bash
# Clone the repository
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jitsucom/jitsu
cd jitsu/docker
# Optionally, edit .env.local file and set env variables, see README.md in `docker` folder
touch .env.local
#
```
### Deploy at scale
For productions deployments, [read this guide](https://docs.jitsu.com/self-hosting/production-deployment)
### Jitsu Cloud
**Cloud version is available at [use.jitsu.com](https://use.jitsu.com). It's free up to 200k events per month, and
comes with a [FREE ClickHouse instance](https://next.jitsu.com/features/clickhouse)**
## 2. Configure Jitsu
* Follow [Quick Start Guide](https://docs.jitsu.com/)
* Get yourself familiar with [Jitsu Concepts](https://docs.jitsu.com/concepts)
* Browse [Destination Catalog](https://next.jitsu.com/integrations/destinations)
## 3. Send events
[Send events](https://docs.jitsu.com/sending-data/). Multiple SDKs are available:
* [HTML Snippet](https://docs.jitsu.com/sending-data/html)
* [React](https://docs.jitsu.com/sending-data/react) (including Next.js)
* [NPM Package](https://docs.jitsu.com/sending-data/npm). Yes, it's isomorphic and works in server-side Node.js too!
* [HTTP API](https://docs.jitsu.com/sending-data/http)
* [Segment Proxy](https://docs.jitsu.com/sending-data/segment-proxy)
# 🚚 Bulker
Jitsu is based on [Bulker](https://github.com/jitsucom/bulker), an open-source data warehouse ingestion engine.
Bulker can be used as a standalone tool, if you're comfortable working with low-level APIs.
# Contributing
Please see our [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).
## Development Notes