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PostHog/posthog

PostHog provides a unified platform that combines product analytics, session replay, feature flags, experimentation, error tracking, logs, and surveys. It processes product data and user sessions to generate analytical visualizations, alerts, and researched diagnostic reports.

Project overview

Project type: Workflow · Data Processing
Use cases: Data Analysis
Deployment: Refer to project documentation
License: License pending

Best for

Developers, operations teams, and enterprise teams needing to combine analytics, session replay, flags, experiments, error tracking, logs, data operations, AI observability, and workflows.

Key capabilities

Turns product signals such as errors, rage clicks, and failed queries into researched reports and pull requests for review and merging.
Autocaptures or manually instruments event-based analytics and supports visualization or SQL analysis of user behavior.
Monitors web traffic and user sessions with dashboards for conversion, web vitals, and revenue.
Records and displays real user sessions from websites or mobile apps to help diagnose issues and understand behavior.
Safely rolls out features to selected users or cohorts.
Tests product changes and measures their statistical impact on goal metrics, including no-code experiment setup.
Tracks errors, provides alerts, and supports issue resolution.
Ingests, searches, and analyzes log data alongside product data.

Limitations and risks

Open-source deployments should scale to approximately 100k events per month before migration to PostHog Cloud is recommended.
Open source deployments do not receive customer support or guarantees.
Self-hosting is labeled advanced, and open source deployments have no customer support or guarantees.
PostHog Cloud is free within stated monthly tiers and charges based on usage after those tiers.

Getting started

The source documents a one-line Docker deployment and cloud signup. Coding is optional depending on the interaction and setup method.

Evidence and sources

GitHub project description: :hedgehog: PostHog is the leading platform for building self-driving products. Our developer tools – AI observability, analytics, session replay, flags, experiments, error trackin…
README: You can steer it all from [Slack](https://posthog.com/slack), [web](https://posthog.com/ai), desktop ([PostHog Code](https://posthog.com/code)), or your own editor via [the MCP](h…
README: The fastest and most reliable way to get started with PostHog is signing up for free to [PostHog Cloud](https://us.posthog.com/signup) or [PostHog Cloud EU](https://eu.posthog.com…
README: If you want to self-host PostHog, you can deploy a hobby instance in one line on Linux with Docker (recommended 4GB memory): ```bash /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubu…
README: Once you've got a PostHog instance, you can set it up by installing our [JavaScript web snippet](https://posthog.com/docs/getting-started/install?tab=snippet), one of [our SDKs](h…

Reviewed at: 2026-07-16T20:02:58Z