Settings & Billing

Last updated: Oct 07, 2022

This page documents all settings within the PostHog application. If you are self-hosting PostHog, a guide to configuring your instance settings can be found here.

Organization settings - covers your entire organization
Billing - covers your entire organization
Project settings - affect your current project only
My settings - affect the current user that is logged in only

Organization settings

Open your account dropdown in the top right corner of the navigation bar and then click on the gear icon next to 'Current organization'. Contains the following settings:

Display name
Invites
Members - you can remove and change roles for team members here
Notification preferences
Danger Zone - delete your organization

Once you have invited a member to your Organization, you will then also need to add them to the relevant Project (see below) in order to be able to view it if the project is set to 'private'.

Billing and license management

Open your account dropdown in the top right corner of the navigation bar and then click on 'Billing' (Cloud only) or 'License management' (Self Host only). Contains the following settings:

[Cloud only] Billing and usage - view your current billing plan and usage; manage your subscription (via Stripe) including changing your billing plan, cancel your subscription, and update payment information
[Self-hosted only] License management - add new and manage existing license keys

Project settings

Click on 'Project settings' in the left hand menu. Contains the following settings:

Project name
Website event autocapture - JavaScript snippet code to include in your website's HTML
Project API key
Timezone - allows you to see relevant time conversions in PostHog
Filter out internal and test users - filter out events from internal sources in your queries
Correlation analysis exclusions (beta) - globally exclude certain events or properties from your correlation analysis
Path cleaning rules (beta) - make your Paths clearer by aliasing one or multiple URLs
Permitted domains/URLs - specify domains and URLs where the Toolbar will automatically launch if you are logged in, and where sessions will be recorded (if enabled)
Data attributes - these attributes can be used when using the Toolbar and defining Actions to match unique elements on your pages
Webhook integration - configure a webhook to receive notifications on Slack, Teams or Discord when a certain action is received in PostHog
Data capture configuration - set whether or not the full IP address of each user is stored with each Event
PostHog Toolbar - enable or disable the Toolbar for this project
Recordings - enable or disable Session Recording for this project
Group Analytics (paid plans only) - name your group types
Access Control - set whether anyone in your Organization can access the project, or just invited users
Danger zone - delete your project

My settings

Open your account dropdown in the top right corner of the navigation bar and then click on gear icon next to your username. Contains the following settings:

Password
Personal API keys - used to authenticate you against our API
Security and Feature Updates - enable or disable email notifications with security and product feature updates only (no marketing emails)
Anonymize Data Collection - set whether or not to allow PostHog to collect data about your usage of the product

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