PostHog

Availability: Airbyte Cloud: ✅, Airbyte OSS: ✅
Support Level: Community
Latest Version: 0.1.15
Definition Id: af6d50ee-dddf-4126-a8ee-7faee990774f

This page contains the setup guide and reference information for the PostHog source connector.

Prerequisites

• api_key - obtain Private API Key for your account following these steps
• base_url - 'https://app.posthog.com' by default, but it can be different if self-hosted posthog instances is used

Setup guide

Step 1: Set up PostHog

• PostHog Account

Step 2: Set up the PostHog connector in Airbyte

For Airbyte Cloud:

1. Log into your Airbyte Cloud account.
2. In the left navigation bar, click Sources. In the top-right corner, click +new source.
3. On the Set up the source page, enter the name for the PostHog connector and select PostHog from the Source type dropdown.
4. Enter your apikey.
5. Enter your start_date.
6. Change default base_url if self-hosted posthog instances is used
7. Click Set up source.

For Airbyte OSS:

1. Navigate to the Airbyte Open Source dashboard.
2. Set the name for your source.
3. Enter your api_key.
4. Enter your start_date.
5. Change default base_url if self-hosted posthog instances is used
6. Click Set up source.

Supported streams and sync modes

• Projects
• Annotations
• Cohorts
• Events (Incremental)
• FeatureFlags
• Insights
• Persons

Performance considerations

The PostHog API doesn't have any known request limitation. Please create an issue if you see any rate limit issues that are not automatically retried successfully.

Changelog

Version	Date	Pull Request	Subject
0.1.15	2023-10-28	31265	Fix Events stream datetime format
0.1.14	2023-08-29	29947	Add optional field to spec: events_time_step
0.1.13	2023-07-19	28461	Fixed EventsSimpleRetriever declaration
0.1.12	2023-06-28	27764	Update following state breaking changes
0.1.11	2023-06-09	27135	Fix custom EventsSimpleRetriever
0.1.10	2023-04-15	24084	Increase events streams batch size
0.1.9	2023-02-13	22906	Specified date formatting in specification
0.1.8	2022-11-11	18993	connector migrated to low-code, added projects,insights streams, added project based slicing for all other streams
0.1.7	2022-07-26	14585	Add missing 'properties' field to event attributes
0.1.6	2022-01-20	8617	Update connector fields title/description
0.1.5	2021-12-24	9082	Remove obsolete session_events and insights streams
0.1.4	2021-09-14	6058	Support self-hosted posthog instances
0.1.3	2021-07-20	4001	Incremental streams read only relevant pages
0.1.2	2021-07-15	4692	Use account information for checking the connection
0.1.1	2021-07-05	4539	Add AIRBYTE_ENTRYPOINT env variable for kubernetes support
0.1.0	2021-06-08	3768	Initial Release