There are already a lot of different analytics services you can reuse for a fair subscription price. Let's go over some of the pros and cons.

The following are the pros of using third-party analytics services:

• No need to maintain the hardware
• Databases are maintained by the vendor
• Security is maintained by the vendor
• Online availability and scaling

The following are the cons of using third-party analytics services:

• Your data is stored externally
• Your application relies on the availability of the vendor services
• Reports and feature sets may be limited
• Pricing may change over time

With third-party analytics, you save time, effort, and money in the early stages. This allows you to move fast and focus on the business side of your application.

As soon as your application installation base starts growing, you can always switch to a homegrown solution with dedicated support and a good development team. Meanwhile, however, I strongly recommend getting started with a third-party service.

Now that we have seen all the pros and cons of third-party services, let's learn how to use one such service. In the next section, we are going to integrate Nucleus into our Electron application.