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How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events

Nov 2, 2022

How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events

Nov 2, 2022
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Want to know more about what we're up to?  Subscribe to HogMail, our newsletter , which we send 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…
Array 1.41.0: Improving performance by up to 400%
Nov 2, 2022
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…
Introducing PostHog Cloud EU
Oct 11, 2022 by Andy Vandervell
Want to know more about what we're up to?  Subscribe to HogMail, our newsletter , which we send 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 1.40.0: Interface improvements and more!
Sep 26, 2022
PostHog 1.39.0 introduces a new beta for you to try, a new display chart and big improvements to our client libraries.
Array 1.39.0: Betas, persons, events and libraries
Aug 29, 2022
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved feature flag persistence and much more!
Array 1.38.0: Exports, subscriptions and session analysis
Aug 1, 2022
PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages, dancing hedgehogs and much, much more.
Array 1.37.0: Cohorts 2.0 and event & property detail pages
Jun 27, 2022
PostHog 1.36.0 introduces AND/OR filtering, timezone support, universal search, multi-dashboard insights and much, much more.
Array 1.36.0: Introducing AND/OR filtering, timezone support and universal search
May 30, 2022
Over the last few months, we’ve steadily grown the number of businesses offering services through  the PostHog Marketplace . We’ve added partnerships with teams such as  Altinity , Birch and, as of today,  Restack .  Restack  is a platform for…
Restack joins the PostHog Marketplace
May 11, 2022 by Joe Martin
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…
Introducing the Avo Inspector app
Apr 27, 2022
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 1.35.0: Introducing SAML, world map view and new plugins
Apr 25, 2022
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!
Array 1.34.0
Mar 30, 2022
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…
Introducing Collaboration for PostHog
Mar 24, 2022 by Paolo D'Amico
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…
What launching Experimentation taught us about running effective A/B tests
Mar 23, 2022 by Neil Kakkar
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…
PostHog Launch Week I: A Universe of New Features
Mar 23, 2022 by Andy Vandervell
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…
How we’re making PostHog deployments easier
Mar 22, 2022 by Harry Waye, Guido Iaquinti
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…
PostHog teams up with Altinity
Mar 22, 2022 by Joe Martin
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…
The secrets of PostHog query performance
Mar 22, 2022 by Karl-Aksel Puulmann
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…
Introducing Data Management for PostHog
Mar 21, 2022 by Alex Kim
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…
Enabling zero downtime data migrations for self-hosted users
Mar 18, 2022 by Yakko Majuri
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.
Array 1.33.0
Feb 28, 2022
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…
You can now reverse ETL into PostHog with Hightouch
Feb 24, 2022 by Andy Vandervell
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 1.32.0
Jan 31, 2022
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…
Group Analytics is now available in PostHog
Dec 16, 2021 by Joe Martin
PostHog 1.31.0 introduces Group Analytics, improved Correlation Analysis, a revamped overall user experience on Insights and 350+ more improvements and fixes.
Array 1.31.0
Dec 16, 2021
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.
Array 1.30.0
Nov 17, 2021
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…
The state of plugins on PostHog
Nov 16, 2021 by Yakko Majuri
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.
Array 1.29.0
Oct 21, 2021
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…
Why we're removing the sessions page
Oct 11, 2021 by Paolo D'Amico
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.
Array 1.28.0
Sep 15, 2021
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…
We just made PostHog Open Source 1000x more scalable via ClickHouse
Aug 20, 2021 by Mo Shehu
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.
Array 1.27.0
Jul 26, 2021
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…
Why we're giving away 100 times more cloud usage, free
May 17, 2021 by James Hawkins
PostHog 1.25.0 is here! Read about our new features, why we're giving 1M events for free to everyone, and find out who are the 6 new team members we've onboarded.
Array 1.25.0
May 13, 2021
PostHog 1.26.0 is here! Read about our Series B raise, our new features, and find out who are the 4 new team members we've onboarded.
Array 1.26.0
May 13, 2021
Welcome to The PostHog Array 1.24.0! Quite a lot has changed since we last talked... Community MVP 🏆 This release cycle's Community MVP goes to... adrienbrault ! Adrien has been submitting PRs left and right, helping us improve the core PostHog…
Array 1.24.0
Apr 14, 2021
In this edition of the PostHog Array: Release 1.23 is out, and our 🔥 new  PostHog.com homepage  is live - amazing work from PostHoggers Cory, Lottie, and Mike! Community MVP The PostHog 1.23.0 community MVP is Sandeep ( samcaspus ) - a frequent…
Array 1.23.0
Mar 18, 2021
PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual bug squashing. Community MVP The community MVP for PostHog 1.22.0 is  oshura3 , who did a  thorough review and edit of our website content  and…
Array 1.22.0
Mar 3, 2021
Release 1.21 is a big one, on top of exciting new features and improvements, we put extra time into the overall stability of PostHog squashing dozens of issues. Some highlights of this release: New: Our new navigation is out of beta and available to…
Array 1.21.0
Feb 17, 2021
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog for 2 weeks to give everyone a chance to recharge (with a rotation in place to make sure nothing…
Array 1.20.0
Jan 19, 2021
This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer features, as well as our core analytics stack.  Once again, we were heavily driven by feedback, having done a bunch of calls with our users and…
Array 1.19.0
Dec 15, 2020
Our primary goals for this release were to iron out bugs and improve the user experience of our Beta features. As a result, we fixed  a whole lot of stuff . We merged dozens of PRs with session recording fixes and improvements, and a dozen more with…
Array 1.18.0
Nov 30, 2020
Having launched  major  features in our  previous release  such as  Session Recording  and  apps , over the past two weeks we worked extremely hard to improve PostHog's UX, enhance the new Beta features, and fix a bunch of bugs.   You'll notice…
Array 1.17.0
Nov 17, 2020
Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And, given that scalability was the focus of the previous release, we thought it was time for some fresh new features.  So, without further ado, here they are…
Array 1.16.0
Nov 4, 2020
Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has the largest changelog to date, with 175 PRs merged to  master  since the last time you heard from us. However, there is method to the madness: PostHog…
Array 1.15.0
Oct 15, 2020
Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of interviews with users and had a lot of discussions with the community around one key question:  How can we make PostHog better for you? The result is a…
Array 1.14.0
Sep 3, 2020
Quality was the name of the game over the last two weeks. We have a few user facing tweaks and a mountain of bug fixes and refactoring this week. We're not sure what the collective noun for a bunch of bug fixes and refactoring pull requests is - a…
Array 1.13.0
Aug 13, 2020
Shared dashboards, global annotations, retention table improvements and a metric ton of bug fixes. This week's PostHog array has it all. If you're self hosting and want these features -  update your PostHog . Please also update your  posthog-js…
Array 1.12.0
Jul 29, 2020
PostHog is now available on Segment!
Jul 22, 2020
Annotations, filtering all functionality by cohorts, retention table filtering and many, many bugfixes. It's all in this PostHog update. If you're self hosting and want these features -  update your PostHog . Please also update your  posthog-js…
Array 1.11.0
Jul 14, 2020
This is our most exciting release to date. Here we go: 🎉 You  have  to try the new toolbar out - you can walk through your own website or app and see where users are clicking. We did it on our own site and immediately found out a lot of things that…
Array 1.10.0
Jun 25, 2020
First, learn  how PostHog raised $3M for our open source project . We could not have done it without this community - thank you for all your issues, feedback, usage and support! So, what have we been doing with the money? Since last time - AWS…
Array 1.9.0
Jun 18, 2020
What's box-fresh in PostHog? Cumulative graphs, better paths, and an upgrade to our actions. If you're self hosting and want these features -  update your PostHog . Release notes Cumulative graphs This feature is designed for startups. We built it…
Array 1.8.0
Jun 3, 2020
This week's update brings a React Native integration, time comparisons, easy access to user data from graphs, better user friendliness, and much stronger frontend testing. Self hosting and want to upgrade?  Update your PostHog . Release notes…
Array 1.7.0
May 26, 2020
One of the most fun weeks we've had so far with our UX - resizable and touch-enabled dashboards with a new display mode, Microsoft Teams support, and paths for events. Plus, a ton of performance improvements. Want to try this out and self hosting…
Array 1.6.0
May 19, 2020
Another week, another PostHog Array. We're steadily working towards parity with other tools. This week's highlights include a new website, multiple dashboards, a sleek new design and breaking down by cohorts. Click here for instructions  on how to…
Array 1.5.0
May 13, 2020
Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core functionality. Release notes Filter properties individually In both trends and funnels, you can now add…
Array 1.4.0
May 7, 2020
Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and self-hosting?  Update  your instance. Release notes PostHog Android Library In addition to the work Marius put into the iOS integration, this week you can…
Array 1.3.0
Apr 29, 2020
Big new integration - PostHog now has a library for iOS! Like what you see and self-hosting?  Update  your instance. Release notes PostHog iOS Library You can now capture events in your iOS app and send them to PostHog. It automatically captures…
Array 1.2.0
Apr 22, 2020
Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like what you see and self-hosting?  Update  your instance. First our updates and new features. Release notes PostHog integrates with Slack This update…
Array 1.1.0
Apr 15, 2020
Like what you see and self-hosting?  Update  your instance. First our updates and new features. Also as you will see below we have added Celery workers, we’ll move tasks to workers to speed up a lot of actions in PostHog so we've updated the upgrade…
Array 1.0.11
Apr 8, 2020
Like what you see and self-hosting?  Update  your instance. First our updates and new features. Release notes Users in Trend Graphs Whilst we have progressively built in Total volume of users, DAUs and Stickiness into our graphs this change lets you…
Array 1.0.10
Apr 1, 2020
We’re in the thick of our release schedule this week! Like what you see and self-hosting?  Update  your instance. First our updates and new features. Release notes Stickiness Last week we made a lot of changes to actions but one important change…
Array 1.0.9
Mar 25, 2020
Welcome to our second PostHog Array which comes with a new naming convention. We’re going to be doing weekly tagged releases from now on so the PostHog Array will reflect our most recent version. Like what you see and self-hosting?  Update  your…
Array 1.0.8
Mar 17, 2020
This is the first of (what we hope are many) PostHog weekly roundup posts. We want to let the community know what we have been up to, a few of our favorite comments, issues, and pull requests as well as some key repos and projects we have noticed…
Array 1.0.0
Mar 9, 2020
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