Tag: product updates
The clues were there all along. Tracing is now in beta
PostHog distributed tracing is now in beta. Point your existing OpenTelemetry exporter at PostHog and get distributed tracing alongside your replays, errors, logs, and user data.
What if your product built itself?
PostHog collects an enormous amount of data about your product ( analytics , session replay , web analytics , error tracking , experiments ) and shows it to you so you can go explore it. The product improvement loop today: something breaks, or a…
PostHog Code and the self-driving product
Today, PostHog Code enters beta. It's a desktop app that runs coding agents on top of your product data. The obvious stuff ships itself. The tricky stuff shows up as a prioritized to-do list for you to steer. We built it to chase one idea: self…
We’re partnering with Stripe to solve the most annoying problem for product builders
No, it’s not coming up with a company name. And it’s not trying to find a technical co-founder. It’s the initial pain of installing, configuring, and authorizing the first elements of your stack. You need something to handle payments, something to…
How we built automatic clustering for LLM traces
Traditional clickstream product analytics (like button clicks and page views) is one of the most important datasets for anyone trying to build a successful product. Backend observability data – metrics, logs, traces – are operational, but equally…
Stop AI slop: Run evals with LLM-as-a-Judge
Every time your AI product generates text, code, or images, it's being judged. Not against some complex scoring matrix or your internal metrics, but by a user who's tired, distracted, and one bad output away from a final verdict: "This helped me…
How we built user behavior analysis with multi-modal LLMs (in 5 not-so-easy steps)
PostHog captures a lot of user behavior data — the pages people visit, the buttons they click, and everything in between, all captured as events and session recordings . By “a lot,” I mean billions of events and terabytes of S3 snapshots. Watching…
8 learnings from 1 year of agents – PostHog AI
Today we launch PostHog AI, the AI agent built into PostHog . A year in the making, we've gone a long way from our first chat prototype made over a hackathon . It all started with just one tool: "create trends chart" - and no real agentic…
DeskHog is here
I want you to fall in love with hardware. I love this job because the incentives are awesome: PostHog wins when you build things. The more successful you are as a technical creator, the more we get to grow. ...assuming you still like us when you pick…
5 ways to monitor key metrics using PostHog alerts
To keep life interesting, it's important to live in a state of perpetual ignorance. When things are going well, there's no need to find out why. When things go downhill, let anxiety run its course. After all, who needs data and insights when you have…
Introducing Notebooks for PostHog
Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog dramatically. You can read all about what’s changed and why in Cory’s post about the redesign . Suffice to say that the new version has a lot to…
What if PostHog looked like a dev tool?
Last year, during a small team offsite in Austin, Texas, James and I sat down in a coffee shop and had a discussion about what the future of PostHog could look like. While nothing is “wrong” with our product's UI, we also know the user experience…
Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for multiple years now, we’ve built a lot of expertise and systems related to ClickHouse. To formalize…
Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because... hedgehogs love SQL, probably? You can use HogQL expressions to enhance insights, filter event…
Sunsetting Kubernetes support for PostHog
We no longer support paid, open-source deployments and it is no longer possible to buy licenses for self-hosted versions - we instead recommend migrating to PostHog Cloud . We continue to develop for our open source Docker Compose ("Hobby…
Array 1.43.0: Massive performance improvements!
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! Need to update a self-hosted instance? Check the runbook docs for instructions ! PostHog 1.43.0 release notes New: Performance…
Array 1.42.0: Get beta features via our roadmap!
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! 1.42.0 update guide for self-hosted users Self-hosted users must run async migrations 0005-0007 before updating to 1.42.0. If you haven…
Array 1.41.0: Improving performance by up to 400%
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! 1.41.0 update guide for self-hosted users Due to changes in this update, it is important check alias usage before upgrading PostHog…
How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events
In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle persons and events on PostHog. Today, after gathering your feedback and seeing the improvements to query performance, we’re rolling this change out as…
Introducing PostHog Cloud EU
It's no secret that some popular analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, have fallen foul of GDPR regulations in the EU. That's one reason why we've enabled users to self-host PostHog, or to anonymize user data in a way which complies with GDPR…
Array 1.40.0: Interface improvements and more!
Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! Running a self-hosted instance? Check out our guide to upgrading PostHog . PostHog 1.40.0 release notes Release highlights: New…
Array 1.39.0: Betas, persons, events and libraries
PostHog 1.39.0 introduces a new beta for you to try, a new display chart and big improvements to our client libraries.
Array 1.38.0: Exports, subscriptions and session analysis
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved feature flag persistence and much more!
Array 1.37.0: Cohorts 2.0 and event & property detail pages
PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages, dancing hedgehogs and much, much more.
Array 1.36.0: Introducing AND/OR filtering, timezone support and universal search
PostHog 1.36.0 introduces AND/OR filtering, timezone support, universal search, multi-dashboard insights and much, much more.
Introducing the Avo Inspector app
We're excited to announce that we have launched a new app with Avo , a leading data governance platform which enables you track data consistently and scalably across multiple platforms. Connecting PostHog to Avo is great if, for example, you're…
Array 1.35.0: Introducing SAML, world map view and new plugins
PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are coming from with the World Map. Additionally we now support organization-level SAML login on both Cloud and Self-Hosted instances. Plus check out your Project Homepage for a few additional goodies.
Array 1.34.0
PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for projects, smart names for all insights, an entire Data Management tool as well as support for horizontal scalability!
Introducing Collaboration for PostHog
PostHog is better with teammates. You only have to create a dashboard once, but it becomes more valuable every time you invite someone from your organization to view it. And this isn't just some vague truism: it's a measurable fact. Our data shows…
What launching Experimentation taught us about running effective A/B tests
We just launched our Experimentation suite, and there's a ton we learned about running successful experiments. It was a no brainer product decision: Since you're already analysing your data in PostHog, and you're already using Feature Flags to roll…
PostHog Launch Week I: A Universe of New Features
PostHog made huge strides in 2021. To name just a few landmarks, we: Raised a $15 million Series B ahead of schedule Became one of YC's top-valued companies Rebranded our website in just four weeks Migrated from postgresql to ClickHouse Achieved…
The secrets of PostHog query performance
We want PostHog to become the first choice for product analytics at any scale. To do that, users should have a smooth experience exploring their product data - including not waiting minutes for queries to load. In this post, I’m going to break down…
How we’re making PostHog deployments easier
When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a PostgreSQL datastore. Troubleshooting was easy, while the low barrier of entry meant fast adoption and more feedback on where to take the product. This…
PostHog teams up with Altinity
That’s right, we’re teaming up with Altinity . It’s an exciting new partnership that also marks the launch of the PostHog Marketplace . Double announcement! Going forward, the marketplace is where you’ll be able to find third-party services which…
Introducing Data Management for PostHog
PostHog is growing fast. In just the last year we've measured ~36.5B total events ingested in PostHog Cloud, and hundreds of self-hosted users reached the 1M total ingested events milestone. This is a sign of the superb growth we're seeing as a…
Enabling zero downtime data migrations for self-hosted users
In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product evolves, your schemas evolve too, and you need migrations to update them. However, not all migrations are made equal. Some are simple, others are complex…
Array 1.33.0
Introducing a full multivariate Experimentation suite, granular permissions on dashboards, Altinity Cloud support for ClickHouse, configuring your instance from the PostHog UI and 290+ improvements/fixes.
You can now reverse ETL into PostHog with Hightouch
We're delighted to announce that Hightouch has released an integration with PostHog so you can sync modeled data from your data warehouse into PostHog. What is Hightouch? Hightouch is an alternative to Customer Data Platforms (CDP) like Segment…
Array 1.32.0
PostHog 1.32.0 makes it easier to find what you want in the Persons & Groups page, introduces vertical funnels and sets the stage for the launch of Experimentation!
Array 1.31.0
PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user experience on Insights and 350+ more improvements and fixes.
Group Analytics is now available in PostHog
Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale / Enterprise users and those on PostHog Cloud. Group Analytics are used for tracking and analyzing multiples of any event type within PostHog. Unlike…
Array 1.30.0
Brand new and faster user interface, automatic conversion signal detection with Correlation analysis, saving insights for future use and a fully revamped recordings playback experience and more than 350 improvements/fixes more.
The state of plugins on PostHog
Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part of PostHog, as it is responsible for event ingestion. However, it isn’t called “ingestion server” because it was originally designed to run plugins. So…
Array 1.29.0
Fully revamped Paths experience enables you to better explore what actions your users take. New features include multivariate feature flags, private projects and DAU/WAU/MAU graphs.
Why we're removing the sessions page
This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain a daily list of all sessions by your users, separating them by periods where inactivity lasted longer than 30 minutes. In addition, this is where you…
Array 1.28.0
Understand your conversion rates better, PostHog 1.28.0 has launched! Significantly revamped performance for slower queries, advanced engagement cohorts, SAML support, and many more improvements and fixes.
We just made PostHog Open Source 1000x more scalable via ClickHouse
We're excited to announce a major under-the-hood upgrade for PostHog Open Source! Over the past few weeks, our team have been hard at work moving over from Postgres to ClickHouse, the same database that powers PostHog Cloud. This means you can now…
Array 1.27.0
PostHog 1.27.0 is here! Completely redesigned funnels experience will help you dive deeper to understand why your users aren't converting. Plus 400+ improvements & fixes.
Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free
Today, we're announcing that we're giving away 1 million ingested events/month on Cloud , for free. That's up from 10k/month that we were offering before. More free stuff?! You're already pretty generous! Gee, thanks subtitle! The magic of an open…