PostHog Source

Ingest your event data from PostHog into RudderStack.

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PostHog is a complete product analytics stack that you can seamlessly deploy on your infrastructure. It simplifies scalable product analytics while giving you full control over all your user data.

RudderStack now supports PostHog as a source. You can send your PostHog events to RudderStack by using the RudderStack PostHog plugin.

‌Getting started

Follow these steps to set up your PostHog source in the RudderStack dashboard:

  1. Go to your RudderStack dashboard and click Add Source. From the list of Event Streams sources, select PostHog.
  2. Assign a name to your source and click Continue.
  3. Your PostHog source is now configured. Note the source Write key:
PostHog source write key

Setting up the RudderStack-PostHog plugin

Once you’ve successfully set up PostHog as a source in RudderStack, follow these steps to configure and set up the PostHog-managed RudderStack plugin.

  1. Copy your PostHog source Write key from the RudderStack dashboard and your data plane URL. For more information on the data plane URL, refer to the Glossary.
  2. Then, go to your PostHog dashboard and go to Plugins. In the search bar, type RudderStack.
  3. Configure this plugin using the write key and the data plane URL from Step 1. Append v1/batch to this URL so that it is of the following format:
https://<DATA_PLANE_URL>/v1/batch

If you are using RudderStack Cloud, set <DATA_PLANE_URL to https://hosted.rudderlabs.com/v1/batch

RudderStack Server URL
  1. Finally, enable this plugin.

Any events generated in your PostHog instance will now be automatically sent to RudderStack. You can then route these events to your specified destinations.

License

The RudderStack PostHog Plugin is released under the MIT License.

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