What PostHog shipped in April 2026

Framework guides

Using PostHog with a CDP

PostHog now positions itself as a viable alternative to traditional CDPs like Segment and RudderStack, offering unified customer data collection and sending it to analytics, marketing, CRM, and wareho…

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

PostHog introduced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enabling AI agents and tools to directly interact with PostHog's products via a dedicated endpoint. The MCP server supports OAuth and API key a…

AI engineering with PostHog

PostHog defines AI engineering as integrating and building LLM-powered software, positioning itself as a unified platform for developers. It introduces AI features like an in-app AI agent, CLI-based c…

Product analytics

Web analytics

Session replay

PostHog expanded its session replay feature to include AI-powered assistance, cost controls, and performance diagnostics. Users can now filter sessions, analyze power users, monitor network performanc…

Feature flags

Getting HogPilled: Winning with PostHog

PostHog published a guide titled 'Getting HogPilled' to help startups define success through measurable North Star metrics and track user behavior via events. The guide emphasizes selecting a precurso…

Install PostHog

PostHog introduced an AI-powered installation wizard (`npx @posthog/wizard@latest`) to simplify setup across 22 frameworks and languages, including Android, React, Next.js, and Swift. The update also …

Logos, brand, hedgehogs

PostHog published extensive brand guidelines clarifying logo usage, typography (Matter SQ), and mascot (Max the hedgehog) rules. The 2021 logo update is emphasized, and third-party usage rules restric…

PostHog community incubator

PostHog introduced a community incubator program offering $800 cash grants, venue support, and attendee outreach to help organizers start co-working groups in cities worldwide. Successful groups must …

Making Claude Cowork actually useful

The author shares their experience using Anthropic’s Claude Cowork to automate high-value tasks like cross-team plan coherence checks and aggressive growth bet generation, rather than low-leverage wor…

Great companies are built in hackathons

PostHog credits hackathons for generating millions in revenue and birthing core products like Session Replay, Data Warehouse, Logs, Workflows, and PostHog AI. Their structured approach—separating hack…

In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo

PostHog released a detailed comparison with Matomo, positioning itself as an all-in-one platform for engineering-led product teams while highlighting Matomo’s limitations. PostHog integrates product a…

Pricing change detected for Posthog

Pricing updated for Posthog: - Free: allowance changed from Usage capped at free tier limits to 1 project, 1-year data retention, free tier limits - Pay-as-you-go: allowance changed from Usage-based p…

You're doing lifecycle emails wrong

Lifecycle email tools like Customer.io and ActiveCampaign, designed for broadcast messaging with basic segmentation, are ill-suited for product-led growth (PLG) messaging, which requires real-time beh…

Product OS suite - PostHog

The webpage outlines PostHog's product offerings, categorizing its features into key areas such as a data stack, analytics dashboards, product engineering tools, data visualization capabilities, autom…

PostHog Cloud

PostHog has overhauled its pricing structure to introduce a usage-based model that scales with customer needs, replacing or supplementing its free tier with transparent, volume-based pricing for advan…

customers.mdx

The webpage is a static customer showcase page for PostHog, listing users of their platform without providing specific details about changes, impacts, or competitive implications. It serves as a direc…

Company handbook

The webpage is a company handbook outlining internal work processes and organizational culture. It emphasizes the handbook's importance as a foundational document for how the company operates. The con…

Pricing updated for Posthog: - Free: now includes Usage capped at free tier limits - Pay-as-you-go: now includes Usage-based pricing after free tier - New tier: Team (Custom pricing)

Untangling Tokio and Rayon in production: From 2s latency spikes to 94ms flat

PostHog identified and resolved a critical performance bottleneck in its feature flags service, reducing mean p99 latency from 2.5 seconds to 94 milliseconds—a 4x improvement. The issue stemmed from u…

A beginner's guide to testing AI agents

AI agents have transformed software testing by introducing probabilistic behavior, where the same input can yield different outputs based on prompts, context, tool calls, or external data. This shift …

The best HIPAA-compliant A/B testing tools

The article highlights the critical need for HIPAA-compliant A/B testing tools in healthcare, emphasizing that many popular tools fail to meet regulatory requirements, risking severe financial penalti…

I hate the standup bot (so I built an agent to do it for me)

A PostHog engineer, frustrated by the manual effort required to generate daily standup updates in Slack, built an AI agent to automate the process. The agent leverages the OpenAI Agents SDK to gather …