# PostHog

Product analytics platform with session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking and surveys, self-hosted from its code or run as PostHog Cloud.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/posthog/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://posthog.com
- repository: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog
- docs: https://posthog.com/docs/self-host
- pricing: https://posthog.com/pricing

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: PostHog Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2020
- hqCountry: US

### Kind

- category: analytics, dev-tool
- hosting: unknown
- language: python
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: postgres
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: hobby deploy script

### License

- licenseModel: open-core
- license: MIT, PostHog Enterprise license (ee directory)

### Releases

- currentMajor: unknown
- latestReleaseDate: unknown

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 40620
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 391
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://posthog.com/ (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/PostHog/posthog (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://posthog.com/docs/self-host (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/PostHog/posthog (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://posthog.com/docs/self-host (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://posthog.com/docs/self-host (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/configure/environment-variables (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://posthog.com/docs/how-posthog-works/clickhouse (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://posthog.com/docs/self-host/configure/environment-variables (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/ee/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- headlessApi: https://posthog.com/docs/how-posthog-works (read 2026-11-03)
- adminUi: https://posthog.com/docs/how-posthog-works (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://posthog.com/docs/how-posthog-works/ingestion-pipeline (read 2026-11-03)
- hqCountry: https://posthog.com/privacy (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/PostHog/posthog/tags (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/PostHog/posthog (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/PostHog/posthog/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

PostHog is a product analytics platform with session replay, feature flags, experiments and surveys. It is offered as PostHog Cloud and as a self-hosted deployment of the same product. The architecture docs describe a Django web app and REST API, Rust services for event capture, a Node.js worker for ingestion, and ClickHouse, PostgreSQL and Redis as data stores. The README names a one-line deploy script for a hobby instance on Linux with Docker, and the docs describe a Docker Compose deployment that runs everything on a single machine. PostHog Inc. maintains the project.

## Worth knowing

The ee directory falls under the PostHog Enterprise license, which allows production use only with a valid Enterprise license, while the rest of the repository is MIT-licensed. The docs say the project does not do tagged releases for self-hosted PostHog: every commit becomes available to self-hosted instances. The project states that it provides no customer support or guarantees for open source deployments and recommends PostHog Cloud once event volume grows past what it expects a self-hosted instance to handle.

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